OVAL
What is OVAL?
- 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.
