BNAD 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Finished Good, Breakcore, Sea Containers

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BNAD 100
• Professor: Rob Mateucci

Document Summary

The packaging of a craft beer can also become a function of the supply chain. This includes the canning/bottling of the finished product. Once this task is performed more warehousing may need to happen before product can be delivered to distributors or end users. Within a smaller micro brewery logistics is usually taken care of by the brewery itself. This is done by purchasing vehicles to make local deliveries. On a larger scale macro breweries could possibly have their own fleet of refrigerated trucks and trailers to make deliveries all across the us. Larger companies may also use intermodal logistics such as trains, sea containers and airplanes for delivery of their product. This can cause more complications with supply chains and different vendors have to be managed: distribution, erp systems allow expiration dates to be tracked, thus taking out the human.