Does your company maintain or supply stock to vending machines that dispense snacks, coffee or other hot drinks ?  Or cigarettes ?  
Or cola, soft drinks and cans ?  Or condoms, or tampons ?  
Or sandwiches, chocolate, etc ?  
If so, we can help you to control your vending business more efficiently using the Alpha computer system.

Alpha has far too many features to describe fully on this page, but here is a quick checklist of the most important.  Just compare them with any other system !

• you can record the stock (snacks, cigarettes, drinks, sandwiches, cans, coffee cups, etc) used by each driver,
• Alpha keeps track of the usage and value of the stock in your stockroom and in each van,
• Alpha keeps track of the stock in your vending machines,
• Alpha generates daily/weekly packing lists for each driver, suggesting the stock (snacks, cans, etc) required for that day or week,
• Alpha reconciles stock taken from the stockroom, with stock used to fill vending-machines,
• Alpha suggests how much stock to re-order based on past sales,
• Alpha tracks every item from delivery to your stockroom, to placement in a machine, to being sold and converted to cash,
• Alpha keeps track of every in/out to/from the stockroom, and helps your stocktaking,
• you have a complete view of the stock taken by each of your drivers each day,
• Alpha highlights for you any stock discrepancies.

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• Alpha calculates the on-going cash balance for each vending machine,
• Alpha reconciles cash taken from a machine, with sales on that machine,
• Alpha highlights for you any cash discrepancies,
• you have a complete view of the cash taken by each of your drivers each day,
• Alpha will highlight customers who owe you money,
• Alpha gives you precise and accurate control over your cash,
• Alpha plots graphs of cash taken per month, etc.,
• Alpha performs a VAT analysis if required,
• Alpha records the meter reading on each machine (if any),
• Alpha can invoice your customers with metered machines , including management charges, machine rentals, etc,
• Alpha can also produce your wholesale invoices,

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• you can see how your business is performing over the past week, month or longer,
• Alpha calculates the total sales over a period,
• Alpha highlights your best-selling customer sites, and your slowest-selling,
• Alpha finds your most (and least) profitable customer sites,
• Alpha highlights your best-selling products, and your slowest-selling,
• You can review all your visits for any period in the last year,
• Sales, cash taken, product refilled, meter readings, etc., are recorded for each visit.

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• Alpha calculates and prints your site royalties,
• you can plan & record each driver's route on each day,
• Alpha generates daily or weekly fill-sheets for each of your drivers, describing his route for the day/week, and giving full details about the product columns and/or meter readings in each machine he will visit,
• you can keep records of all your customer sites and machines,
• you can alter machine fill levels easily,
• you can quickly find all the machines containing a known product,
• Alpha suggests which of your machines may be under- or over-filled,
• you can set column targets manually, or ask Alpha to suggest levels based on past sales,
• the Engineers' Service Desk lets you log customer calls/requests, and plan/analyse your engineers' visits,
• Alpha gives you a variety of reports, printouts, graphs, pie-charts, etc.

For more details, phone 0161-865-2377 and ask for Mr Chris Johnson.

Gordon Haley Associates Ltd, Merlewood House, 120 Urmston Lane, Stretford, Manchester M32 9BQ. Tel: (+44)   0161-865-2377			go to main index page		go to top of page
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