• OVAL is a demand prediction system for full service beverage vending that dramatically lowers costs and improves productivity
• OVAL was developed for ABI vending in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• OVAL integrates with the BASIS system.
• OVAL has resulted in substantial fleet and labour savings.
• OVAL works with FLO (Fleet Logistics Optimizer) to route and monitor vehicles.

How OVAL works

• OVAL calculates daily, a predicted stock level in each machine based on recent sales, temperature, and holidays.
• OVAL issues refill calls dynamically daily (no fixed call cycles) when machines need to be serviced (refill threshold is reached).
• OVAL allows user to tailor workload per route to allow route combinations and savings.
• OVAL has an integrated space to sales system which automatically issues suggested column changes for machines called.

Reporting

• OVAL and FLO include a variety of reports.
• OVAL has reports to track sales for a vendor, by route and pack size.
• Other reports check data integrity from BASIS.
• A variety of space to sales reports exists.Reporting
• Samples of each follow.