Route Commission Systems For Planet Antares Vendors

Route commission systems are most appropriate in environments where the employee has a lot of control over factors like the rate of production, based on his ability to work harder, smarter, faster and longer.

In industries with employees having less than total control over the rate of production, the effectiveness of commission systems is reduced. With its unique vending route environment, vending is one such industry. For example: a route person who is paid on a commission basis knows that he will earn more by collecting more money on his route.

Planet Antares Inc ensures that vending route drivers learn how to refill and clean the vending machines at a fast pace. He will also be trained to reduce the amount of time spent at every location on the vending route, with the hope of saving more time to service machines and collect money on each trip.

A recent survey indicated that most vending operators pay drivers some incentive and not a straight salary. While some pay only commission, others pay a combination of commission and salary.

Apart from the advantages, there are several drawbacks of the commission systems as well. In the haste for servicing more number of machines, a Planet Antares vending route driver should not:

1) drive too fast
2) perform less than complete sanitation operations to meet the mahcine’s requirements
3) ignore simple, mechanical issues like removing a paper clip from a coin acceptor
4) ignore the activity of making sure that the mahcine works after refilling and servicing

All these factors can create conditions that lead to serious problems than the problem the commission system was designed to solve in the first place.

Remember that a commission system will not teach you how to schedule the route on its own. What matters is the ability to schedule the route person to service a Planet Antares vending machine after it has made enough sales to profitably justify the cost of service.