Whether processing product or customer sales, beverage facility operations throughout the supply chain involve a variety of tasks that require or demand measuring to determine how well those tasks were accomplished. During the process of accomplishment, many measuring techniques have been and are still practiced to provide management with data comparing actual results with perceived benchmarks.
To put task results in proper perspective, it is important in the existing working environment, from production to distribution, to focus on how some measurement methods are calculated and used, especially in the production phase. In the production phase, performance and line efficiency generally are used interchangeably and with different interpretations. Therefore, the posture of these methods should be questioned, debated and even suspect as to true authenticity relative to original intent.