Calculation of system payback

Approximate estimation of payback time of system Astute Control for coffee machines park is possible as follows. We will consider two functions of system:

• indication and remote debugging of vending machines;
• automatic delivery of sales statistics directly in office.

The first opportunity allows to reduce standstills of the vending machines upon breakdown; the second allows to eliminate necessity of sales counters’ rewriting and manual entry into the database so it saves working time of employees.

Therefore economic benefits of system implementation will develop of two components: the additional received profit from each vending machine and value of saved working time.

For an estimation of components and the sum of economic benefit counting upon one vending machine, please, fill the field below proceeding from specificity and experience of your Company.

Vending machine errors
Service time, days:
Profit from vending machine in month:
Number of resettable errors in month:
Number of non-resettable errors in month:
Clearing time of non-resettable error, hours:
Additional profit in a month:
- due to remote eliminating of resettable errors:
- due to notifications about non-resettable errors:
Additional profit in a year:
Automatic receiving of sales statistic
Average wage of the loader and PC operator:
Time of counter’s rewriting and entry into the database, minute:
Number of audits in a month:
Monthly cost of working time:
Annually cost of working time:
Total
Economic benefit in a month:
Economic benefit in a year:

It is necessary to note that this calculator does not consider following advantages of system:

• an opportunity of realization of marketing effort;
• remote configuring of the vending machines;
• an opportunity of optimization of logistics (a route of loaders, assortment and quantity of transported products).