A salesman without a fixed beat improvises — and improvisation means missed shops, repeat visits to easy ones, and orders that swing wildly week to week. A beat plan turns the same effort into far more coverage.
Group shops into routes that make geographic sense
Cluster shops by locality so a salesman finishes an area before moving on. Less travel, more selling time, lower fuel. Assign each route a fixed day so shopkeepers learn when to expect their order.
Give each salesman his beat — and only his beat
When the app shows a salesman just today's route, he moves faster and skips fewer shops. You, meanwhile, see every route's coverage and order value side by side.
Measure coverage, not just sales
- How many shops on the beat were actually visited?
- How many of those placed an order (the strike rate)?
- Which shops haven't ordered in three cycles?
A shop that stops ordering is a problem you can fix this week — if you can see it. Buried in a diary, it becomes a customer you lost without noticing.
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