Key factors for planning cash distribution
1. Special factors and limitations
- Upper and lower limits of cash amounts during holidays, payday and other special periods
- Staff workload during specific periods
2. Physical factors and limitations
- Time availability of objects
- Required time for order execution for cash collection and replenishment (SLA)
- Availability of human, and technical resources to fulfill the tasks of the cash circulation
- Availability of storage points of cash and special vehicles;
- Availability of cash points that must be collected at the same time.
3. Financial factors and constraints
- Insurance cost for storage and transportation;
- CIT service cost;
- Cash rent cost;
- Banking fees for cash deposits;
- Delay cost during cash transfer to a bank account;
- Fees and prices for validation, recalculation, and sorting of cash;
4. Logical factors and limitations
- Exclusion of cross deliveries and cash in the same denominations and amounts for one point;
- Geographic location of points, taking into account additional factors (road traffic and actual travel time)
- Supported currencies, denominations, and coins at a specific point
5. Regulatory restrictions
- Legislation related to cash activities;
- Requirements and recommendations of the national regulator;
- Internal regulations of cash settlement centers and collection services.
6. Unscheduled events
- Repeated and unscheduled cash collection in case of discrepancies and other unforeseen situations
- Various types of incidents (breakdown of self-service devices, special vehicles, etc.).