Handhelds for Route Drivers

Vending is the last route based industry to utilize handhelds. Handhelds will make Antares vending route drivers more productive. This will be an added advantage for the business.

Apart from vending, every other route based industry has used “handhelds” for over 20 years. Company’s decided to employ handhelds after hearing about operator’s positive handheld experiences. Vending experts and trade magazines have endorsed handhelds for nearly a decade.

The expectations of handhelds are that they improve warehouse and route efficiency for your Antares vending business, with barcode scanning and information accuracy. The benefits harvested from improved machine service and product merchandising also encourages their deployment. Handhelds will be recognized by your Antares customers as a sign of professionalism, which they see as something that will improve the management of their satisfaction.

The Direct Exchange (DEX) of machine information with a handheld contains two important sets of information. First, it contains information on how many dollar bills are in the bill acceptor of your Antares vending machine, coins in the collection box and exact tube activity. Secondly it contains the number of vends for each column (selection).

From the cash information comes “tamper proof cash reconciliation,” while the column vends allow the handheld to instantly tell the quantity of each product necessary to restock the Antares vending machine.

DEX information is usually passed onto the handheld with a cable that connects the machine to the handheld. This process would take about 15 seconds. This of course is much faster than the manual process. This would inevitably mean that the accuracy of the data improves, and problems with illegibly completed route tickets and service logs are altogether eliminated. Your route capacity would increase because you are now able to service more Antares vending machines

Sophisticated product forecasting can predict what products are needed in which vending machines. it will pinpoint when the products will be needed.