Hi! My name is Rita Zarate, and I’m the Hero Support Manager here at Parlevel Systems. Today I’m going to show you 5 tips and tricks to help you navigate your Vending Management system. We’re going to cover how to calculate prekitting, routing, audits, and more!
Tip #1: Show Pars in the Warehouse Prekitting Screen
In some instances, your prekitters may need to view the Parlevel for a certain machine to make sure they are adjusting prekit correctly for a particular selection. This may include knowing when to adjust prekitting down, leaving the prekit as is, or increasing the prekit for a particular selection. Viewing pars in warehouse prekitting will help you make sure you are stocking the right amount of product in the right machine. In order to enable this view, Navigate to Company Settings, Click on the Prekitting Tab, Click the Green Edit icon and toggle the Show Pars in Warehouse Prekitting Screen to on. Save your changes.
Tip #2: Using the Inventories Over Par Report
If you are trying to determine errors made during services, or you need to see any current inventories over the Parlevel set, you can use Parlevel’s Inventories Over Par report. This report can help identify whether you need to adjust the Parlevel or double check the inventory of a machine while you are on location. To find this report navigate to Analytics > Vending Operations > Inventories over Par. From this page, you can click on the POS name to view the current inventory on a machine, the par, and see how many selections are currently over the Parlevel set. You can also view the difference between the Inventory and Par. Click on the column headers to sort by ascending or descending numbers and quickly allow you to see which machines or markets to tackle first.
Tip #3: Force Calculate Prekitting
In the Warehouse Prekitting Page you can see all the prekits that have been generated based on current inventory at the time of calculating the route. However, you may want to see all selections in the machine even if no prekit is needed or if the prekit is at 0. This is handy if you want to change Parlevels, for example. To enable this option, navigate to the Company settings by clicking on your name and avatar on the top right, navigate to the Prekitting page, click the green edit icon and toggle the Force Calculate Prekitting option to on. Save your changes. Now when you navigate to your route and click on the Warehouse Prekitting page you will have a new option under the Options button to Force Calculate.
Tip #4 How to Quickly Navigate to the Service Route
Need to navigate to the route that a machine or market is on, or want to verify if the machine you are looking at is on a particular route? Easily find out from the Machine or Market Modal. Click on the machine or market name from the Vending > All machines page or Markets > All markets page and from the modal, look for a small truck icon on the top right. If you see this icon, that means this machine or market is scheduled on a route. If you click on this icon, it will take you directly to the route it’s scheduled on. As a note, if you do not see this icon, this means the machine or market is not scheduled for service.
Tip #5 How to Enable Audit Scheduling
A helpful feature available in the VMS is the ability to schedule a machine or market for an audit. An audit is used to verify that physical inventory in the machine or market aligns with the inventory in the system. We recommend regular audits to keep your prekit counts and inventory accurate. To enable audits, navigate to the Company settings page, click on the route planning tab, click on the green edit icon, and toggle the Audit Scheduling to on. Save your changes. Now that the audit scheduling is enabled, navigate to the settings icon, routing > routes, click on the edit pencil icon next to the route you would like to modify, click on the Advanced Tab and under the Advanced Planning column you should now see the option to schedule Audits or Enable Dynamic Audits. Once the box is checked save your changes. Now when you plan your routes you will see the option to plan with an audit.
With these tips and tricks, you can more easily verify inventories, confirm point of sales on a route, and audit machines or markets, to ensure correct services. These tools will help you run a more lean and efficient operation. Want to see a specific feature in a future video? Let us know in the comments below!
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