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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.
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