School canteens and tuck shops for snacks

Schools ranked by the children around them, for canteen sales.

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What it does

Every term: schools in your city with how many children live around each, the biggest first, as canteen and tuck shop leads for the snacks team.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Manila, find schools, primary schools and secondary schools in the area, count who lives around, work out new fields, sort them by children and keep the top 50, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Schools with many children nearby sell the most snacks. The list ranks them for the team.

Who it is for

FMCG & distribution field sales. Distributors and consumer brands whose reps cover outlets: new shops, routes, channels and stock. Every use case for fmcg & distribution

Best use cases

  • A snacks company
  • A juice brand
  • A school catering supplier

What each run gives you

  • A Google Sheet

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 90 minutes each time, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.

The flow, block by block

  1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
  2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
  3. SchoolsxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
  4. Who lives aroundxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
  5. Children nearbyLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
  6. Best 50 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
  7. Update the canteen leads sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
  8. Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

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Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.

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