In today’s podcast we present Best Practices to manage your empty keg inventory.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s 8am, do you know where your kegs are?<\/strong>\u00a0Unless you have a good system in place to monitor them, your kegs could be anywhere. Empty kegs have a tendency to grow legs and disappear.<\/strong>\u00a0In my experience as CFO for a beer distributor, I can\u2019t tell you how many times the inventory records showed one thing, and the physical count of empties showed another. There were always missing kegs.<\/span><\/p>\n How many kegs do you own in your brewery?<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m talking about empties and full barrels – barrels that you bought and paid for. If you keep computerized records, the inventory report may tell you there are 1,000 kegs on hand. The big question is: how many do you really have?<\/span><\/p>\n In this podcast, we raise the issue of how much cash is tied up in kegs, and how much\u00a0money you stand to lose if you don\u2019t have a good system<\/strong>\u00a0to manage this part of your inventory.<\/span><\/p>\n We’ll talk about several ideas you can use in your brewery to gain better control over your kegs. The ideas could also save your income statement from certain death in the form of a big write off of missing kegs.<\/span><\/p>\n Best Practices to Manage Keg Inventory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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