To better handle today’s SKU proliferation, warehouse distributors that implement warehouse management systems (WMS) and solutions like voice picking technologies, can save time, money and valuable resources to allocate to other parts of the business, experts say.
Through new facility development, some beverage operators are dedicating their capital expenditure budget to the construction of new plants and offices.
Beverage manufactures should consider the bottom line, production capability and capacity, and marketing plans and forecasts in order to drive success.
A good starting point for reviewing the SKU issue is to question why this universally used identification acronym is so important and where do problems in the supply chain exist?
Growth and change in the beverage market has created trends that impact not only new product development and packaging design, but also extend into warehouse and distribution centers.
Observations in the marketplace and visits to several beverage facilities continue to present a broad and unprecedented array of beverage products to consumers.
Children’s toys like Connectagons bill themselves as offering limitless opportunities for constructing various objects. Although labeling equipment cannot be adapted as easily as these skill-building toys, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are developing systems that are more modular to support the evolving beverage market.