The division of labour when running a vending machine with a team

Writer： Zhongda vending machines Time：2022-09-16 16:15 Browse：℃

While many articles have been written about operating vending machines with individual purchases, less has been said about operating vending machines with a team. Team-operated vending machines means operating a large number of vending machines as a team or company, usually up to dozens of vending machines or more. With a team operation, it comes down to a division of labour. With a large number of vending machines, different people are responsible for different jobs. This is so that the entire vending team can carry out their work in an orderly manner and do it well.

So let’s talk about the general division of labour when running a vending machine as a team.

1.Engineering / After Sales Department
This department is responsible for ensuring that the vending machine runs properly and that if there is a fault, it is dealt with promptly on site. Engineering maintenance staff are essential for vending machine operations teams. Although vending machines are now manufactured to a very high standard, there will inevitably be times when the machine breaks down.

2.Merchandise Department
The merchandise department is responsible for the purchase, pricing and replenishment of goods. The merchandising department is responsible for the purchase, pricing and replenishment of merchandise. The merchandising department is responsible for ensuring the health of the consumer by eliminating counterfeit and shoddy merchandise and by not selling “non-existent” or expired food in the vending machines. The merchandising staff are most familiar with the prices of goods, so prices are set by the merchandising staff and fed back to the company as a reference to determine the final price of goods. The merchandising department is also responsible for restocking the vending machines.

3.Warehouse Management Department
Merchandise is stocked in the warehouse. The Warehouse Department personnel are responsible for establishing a comprehensive electronic vending machine purchase and sales ledger system, recording the product name, specification, quantity, production batch number (production date), shelf life (if any), supplier name and its contact details, location address, date of supply, etc.; a monthly inventory of the merchandise is carried out to ensure that the incoming, sales and inventory amounts match and that errors and omissions are eliminated.

4.Finance Department
The vending machines are counted once a week, the vending machine receipts are registered and confirmed to be correct, and the company is also responsible for the day-to-day running of the finances.

5.Operations Department
The Operations Department is responsible for vending machine operations, merchandise promotions and other matters. The hottest smart vending machines currently on the market can set up promotions in the background so that they can push some promotional discounts at holiday nodes to give back to old users and attract new ones, while also operating as a brand in the official name on some social platforms and video platforms. If you want to do big business, it is essential to build a brand with a good reputation and high visibility.

6.Marketing Department
Responsible for the selection, inspection and replacement of vending machine locations in your city. Vending machine locations are closely related to vending machine profits. Various problems can arise in the early, middle and late stages of vending machine operation, and the marketing department is responsible for vending machine location-related matters.

7.Advertising Department
The vending machine itself is also a great advertising spot. If you’re running your own brand, then the vending machine body ads and the video ads in the display are the best places for you to advertise! And if you are simply running the machine, then you can also set up the body ads and screen ads as advertising space for rent to the public. This not only makes full use of the function of the vending machine, but also generates extra income for yourself, especially for some spots with high traffic flow, even if the crowd doesn’t buy it, you can still earn money from the advertising fees. The advertising department is responsible for finding businesses that require advertising or operating their own brand and setting up advertising content and forms of delivery based on the characteristics of the vending machine.

To sum up: there are 7 different divisions of work for the team to operate the vending machine, each working with the other, so that the whole team can make money!