KEGFLOW: Supply Chain Execution System for Beer Industry

  • ALIZENT
  • From France
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  • Innovative Products and Technologies

Summary of the technology

KEGFLOW is a Supply Chain Execution solution for the brewing industry. From internal operations in breweries, through primary and secondary distribution, down to pubs, KEGFLOW will help you to repond efficiently to the customer demand by delivering the right keg to the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities, in order to ensure the best possible quality of service. KEGFLOW is based on different technologies, among which RFID tags, RFID portals and RFID scanners, that enable to uniquely identify kegs, allowing brewers to track and trace their movements anywhere at any time.

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Details of the Technology Offer

KEGFLOW can help you to satisfy many objectives among with: understand thekegs cycle time, reduce thekegs rotation rate, understand yourloss rate, calculate your investment needs, know your stock by location, control cross-border shipments, facilitate batch product recalls, understand and controlquality related issues, improve yourmaintenance activities, etc. At the end, you improve endcustomer satisfaction, through more accurate demand planning, delivering and invoicing. You also makesavings in everyday operations but also in the long term by taking more informed decisions.

Depending on your tracking objectives, we tag either all kegs or only a small proportion of kegs: for given objectives,a global accuracy of 99% can be reached with only20% of kegs tagged! Here is how we usually proceed:

  • We try to understand your tracking objectives in order to tailor the solution as close as possible to your needs
  • Depending on your tracking objectives, we tag a certain percentage of your kegs with a unique identifier
  • We decide with you the key locations of the supply chain where scan points shoud be installed, among which fixed scanning stations, handheld scanners, bulk scanning gates
  • Data can be read directly in the KEGFLOW Cloud Based Reporting System and you can access smart reports feeding back business critical information
  • We support you all along the solution life cycle with software maintenance, hardware services, and user support

For more information, discover our white paper on our website:https://www.alizent.com/keg-flow/ or contact us at juan.esteo@alizent.com

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Related Keywords

  • Applications for Transport and Logistics
  • High Frequency Technology, Microwaves
  • Supply chain
  • Logistics
  • Industrial Technologies
  • Agrofood Industry
  • Technologies for the food industry
  • Industry
  • Food and Beverages
  • Industrial Automation
  • brewing industry
  • tracking
  • rfid
  • kegs

About ALIZENT

From production to delivery, Alizent connects your industrial assets, automates your processes, monitors your activities, and optimizes your operations to improve decision making and boost industrial efficiency. Alizent masters industrial IoT technologies (from sensors & IoT devices to analytics including communication technologies and cloud-hosted IoT platforms) by leveraging partnerships with major hardware & software tech companies (STMicroelectronics, AVEVA, Siemens, Osisoft).

Alizent has 25 years of proven experience in delivering solutions specifically to meet asset-intensive industry challenges. Their mastery of digital technologies has been initially developed with Air Liquide, a global leader of the industrial gases, then further developed in other major process industries facing similar challenges in Industrial Gases, Oil & Gas, Energy & Water, Metals & Mining, Food & Beverage.

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