{"id":12243,"date":"2024-08-29T07:13:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2024-08-15T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:20:34","slug":"the-x-factor-to-cut-brewery-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/the-x-factor-to-cut-brewery-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor to Cut Brewery Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s podcast we hear the audio version of a recent Brewery Financial Round Table meeting where we tackle brewery cost management and expense reduction.<\/p>\n<p><b>Summary of key points:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u200b<b>Use this 1-2-3-4 step\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/971029820\/37ddd7259c?share=copy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">process<\/a>\u00a0to put a laser focus on cost cutting and reduction<\/li>\n<li><b>Share the Brewery Financial Training\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbfassociation.org\/bbfa-breweries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Program<\/a><b>\u00a0with your managers<\/b>\u00a0and staff \u2013 train them in the ways of identifying and reducing (or eliminating) bloated costs<\/li>\n<li><b>Key challenges we discussed<\/b>: Controlling costs related to production and materials, freight and shipping, finding efficiencies, avoiding cost surprises, improving culture and communication<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4cKlwl2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>78 Ideas to cut costs<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and improve financial results \u2013 Double Your Profits in 6 Months, by Bob Fifer<\/li>\n<li>Dan Klasen from the Beverage Federation shared details on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beveragefederation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0group purchasing organization<\/a>\u00a0(GPO) to help you save a \u2018craft load\u2019 of money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u200bJoin the\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbfassociation.org\/bbfa-breweries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">membership<\/a><b>\u00a0today<\/b>\u00a0and get instant access to the brewery financial round table replay, presentation deck, and brewery cost cutting resources.<\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-15327938\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/979747\/15327938-the-x-factor-to-cut-brewery-costs.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-15327938&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s podcast we hear the audio version of a recent Brewery Financial Round Table meeting where we tackle brewery cost management and expense reduction. Summary of key points: \u200bUse this 1-2-3-4 step\u00a0process\u00a0to put a laser focus on cost cutting and reduction Share the Brewery Financial Training\u00a0Program\u00a0with your managers\u00a0and staff \u2013 train them in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12245,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions\/12245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}