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John Peter Koss, the beverage operations advisor, has more than 60 years of beverage industry experience, was an operations executive for a Fortune 500 company and can be contacted at bossole2@gmail.com.
Determining the cost per case/unit for delivery to designated terminals is essential for beverage delivery today to ensure profitability in today’s market.
Technology advancements have a growing influence on beverage facilities. As these technologies progress, beverage producers have questions to ask where technology fits in their operations.
When the beverage supply chain in all segments is dissected into the specific operations, one stands out because the activity is traditionally part of an overall operation — warehousing.
The cost tracking of production is a never ending task for those responsible for recording, compiling and analyzing raw and packaging materials costs to determine realistic, accurate and beneficial data upon which to base selling prices in complicated and diverse markets.
Containers represent the epitome of constant change syndrome as evidenced in each material used. From an operations perspective, each container material can exemplify some of the important changes and impacts that have occurred.
The inventory issue always has and continues to be a complex and costly subject for beverage producers and distributors. Today, there are more brands, categories, packages and economic factors that must be considered in the inventory level setting process.
From an operations perspective, the processing of materials to create or enhance a liquid beverage from whatever source is the start of the supply chain.