You’ve probably never thought twice about moving your bottle of alcohol from the store to your home. All it requires is a cargo bag or a newspaper for wrapping. However, such a mindset can barely run in a brewery.
Here, transport is often an issue of concern when transporting alcohol from the factory to suppliers. Wrong handling, and you could waste all your production resources. How, then, should you transport alcohol for breweries?
It’s a question that this article answers; read on! And here’s a guide to follow:
Find A Logistic Partner
Running a brewery is no small feat. You must monitor production, attend meetings, advertise your business, and practice bookkeeping, among other duties. With all these responsibilities, you might find it challenging to handle logistics, which is involving.
Instead, consider hiring a logistics company that transports alcohol in bulk. They’re experts at the job and will handle it correctly and easily. Their expertise also assures you they’ll protect your goods from theft during transit.
This team also has the right resources, from vehicles to workers, all at a one-time fee for their services. And working independently would mean buying or hiring these vehicles, which can be expensive.
According to Brew Movers, one of the alcohol logistics providers, it’s best to leave the heavy lifting to the experts. Therefore, take advantage of this for the efficient running of your business.
Consider Temperature
Alcohol is made of many components, some of which are sensitive to certain conditions. In most cases, aged and expensive alcohol tend to be easily affected by surrounding temperatures. In extreme temperatures, especially high, you’ll find the quality of the bottle degrading, with others disintegrating. Overall, it’ll lead to poor-quality beer or wine.
Therefore, you must consider the temperature when bulk transporting alcohol for breweries. It’s best to use a vehicle with refrigerators to maintain temperature and one with controlled humidity, especially for long-distance travel. In most cases, short-distance travel shouldn’t worry you regarding temperature.
Use The Right Packaging
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Alcohol tends to be delicate during transportation. It’s the case since you’ll use glass bottles that can break and metal cans that can deform. However, with the right packaging, it’s something that shouldn’t worry you too much.
The right packaging entails using the right boxes to pack the alcohol. The aim is to prevent the bottles from knocking against each other or falling. It’d help to purchase packaging cartons with dividers for the glass bottles. The dividers can be for each bottle or every two or three bottles.
To prevent falling, ensure the carton is made of thick material, so it can’t tear during loading and off-loading. You should also cushion it at the bottom.
Lastly, choose the right-sized packaging for your alcohol. The carton shouldn’t be too big or too small, especially if it has no dividers. If it’s too big, there’ll be a lot of movement, with the bottles knocking against each other. It’d also be a waste of resources. If it’s too small, the bottles or cans could spill over the carton’s top and end up on the vehicle’s floor.
Consider Having Insurance
As a brewery, your main income source comes from selling your alcohol. You hope the journey will be smooth during transportation without any hitches. However, it always isn’t the case.
Your vehicle could get into an accident, and all the bottles break, or the public could loot them. Such events could take your business to losses. Therefore, it’s important to safeguard your products during transit.
One way is by taking out suitable insurance coverage. It’ll compensate you in the occurrence of an insured risk. Suppose you opt to work with a logistics partner. And working with a partner with such insurance coverage is best to protect your goods.
Look At Laws And Regulations
Alcohol is a regulated substance in most states, especially on the drinking age. However, some laws govern the transportation of alcohol.
As a business owner, please research any alcohol transportation and packaging rules in your state. You want to be on the right side of the law and avoid fines and penalties that reduce business profits. One common law is to have clear warning signs on the intake of alcohol.
Suppose you’re transporting liquor between states. Ensure you know any laws that might hinder your operations in the said country and adhere to them appropriately. You can find this data online or in the given state’s statute.
Conclusion
The discussion above has given a simple but effective guide to assist you when moving and transporting alcohol for breweries. The guide mainly entails adhering to laws and choosing the right packaging and transport means for your goods.
Therefore, it’s best to implement this guide as a brewery owner or manager. It’ll make the logistics aspect of your business easy to handle, allowing you to focus on your other operations.
Most job search advice is cookie-cutter. The advice you’re following is almost certainly the same advice other job seekers follow, making you just another candidate following the same script.
In today’s hyper-competitive job market, standing out is critical, a challenge most job seekers struggle with. Instead of relying on generic questions recommended by self-proclaimed career coaches, which often lead to a forgettable interview, ask unique, thought-provoking questions that’ll spark engaging conversations and leave a lasting impression.
Your level of interest in the company and the role.
Contributing to your employer’s success is essential.
You desire a cultural fit.
Here are the top four questions experts recommend candidates ask; hence, they’ve become cliché questions you should avoid asking:
“What are the key responsibilities of this position?”
Most likely, the job description answers this question. Therefore, asking this question indicates you didn’t read the job description. If you require clarification, ask, “How many outbound calls will I be required to make daily?” “What will be my monthly revenue target?”
“What does a typical day look like?”
Although it’s important to understand day-to-day expectations, this question tends to elicit vague responses and rarely leads to a deeper conversation. Don’t focus on what your day will look like; instead, focus on being clear on the results you need to deliver. Nobody I know has ever been fired for not following a “typical day.” However, I know several people who were fired for failing to meet expectations. Before accepting a job offer, ensure you’re capable of meeting the employer’s expectations.
“How would you describe the company culture?”
Asking this question screams, “I read somewhere to ask this question.” There are much better ways to research a company’s culture, such as speaking to current and former employees, reading online reviews and news articles. Furthermore, since your interviewer works for the company, they’re presumably comfortable with the culture. Do you expect your interviewer to give you the brutal truth? “Be careful of Craig; get on his bad side, and he’ll make your life miserable.” “Bob is close to retirement. I give him lots of slack, which the rest of the team needs to pick up.”
Truism: No matter how much due diligence you do, only when you start working for the employer will you experience and, therefore, know their culture firsthand.
“What opportunities are there for professional development?”
When asked this question, I immediately think the candidate cares more about gaining than contributing, a showstopper. Managing your career is your responsibility, not your employer’s.
Cliché questions don’t impress hiring managers, nor will they differentiate you from your competition. To transform your interaction with your interviewer from a Q&A session into a dynamic discussion, ask unique, insightful questions.
Here are my four go-to questions—I have many more—to accomplish this:
“Describe your management style. How will you manage me?”
This question gives your interviewer the opportunity to talk about themselves, which we all love doing. As well, being in sync with my boss is extremely important to me. The management style of who’ll be my boss is a determining factor in whether or not I’ll accept the job.
“What is the one thing I should never do that’ll piss you off and possibly damage our working relationship beyond repair?”
This question also allows me to determine whether I and my to-be boss would be in sync. Sometimes I ask, “What are your pet peeves?”
“When I join the team, what would be the most important contribution you’d want to see from me in the first six months?”
Setting myself up for failure is the last thing I want. As I mentioned, focus on the results you need to produce and timelines. How realistic are the expectations? It’s never about the question; it’s about what you want to know. It’s important to know whether you’ll be able to meet or even exceed your new boss’s expectations.
“If I wanted to sell you on an idea or suggestion, what do you need to know?”
Years ago, a candidate asked me this question. I was impressed he wasn’t looking just to put in time; he was looking for how he could be a contributing employee. Every time I ask this question, it leads to an in-depth discussion.
Other questions I’ve asked:
“What keeps you up at night?”
“If you were to leave this company, who would follow?”
“How do you handle an employee making a mistake?”
“If you were to give a Ted Talk, what topic would you talk about?”
“What are three highly valued skills at [company] that I should master to advance?”
“What are the informal expectations of the role?”
“What is one misconception people have about you [or the company]?”
Your questions reveal a great deal about your motivations, drive to make a meaningful impact on the business, and a chance to morph the questioning into a conversation. Cliché questions don’t lead to meaningful discussions, whereas unique, thought-provoking questions do and, in turn, make you memorable.
Nick Kossovan, a well-seasoned veteran of the corporate landscape, offers “unsweetened” job search advice. You can send Nick your questions to artoffindingwork@gmail.com.
CALGARY – Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. reported a third-quarter profit of $2.27 billion, down from $2.34 billion in the same quarter last year.
The company says the profit amounted to $1.06 per diluted share for the quarter that ended Sept. 30 compared with $1.06 per diluted share a year earlier.
Product sales totalled $10.40 billion, down from $11.76 billion in the same quarter last year.
Daily production for the quarter averaged 1,363,086 barrels of oil equivalent per day, down from 1,393,614 a year ago.
On an adjusted basis, Canadian Natural says it earned 97 cents per diluted share for the quarter, down from an adjusted profit of $1.30 per diluted share in the same quarter last year.
The average analyst estimate had been for a profit of 90 cents per share, according to LSEG Data & Analytics.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 31, 2024.
CALGARY – Cenovus Energy Inc. reported its third-quarter profit fell compared with a year as its revenue edged lower.
The company says it earned $820 million or 42 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended Sept. 30, down from $1.86 billion or 97 cents per diluted share a year earlier.
Revenue for the quarter totalled $14.25 billion, down from $14.58 billion in the same quarter last year.
Total upstream production in the quarter amounted to 771,300 barrels of oil equivalent per day, down from 797,000 a year earlier.
Total downstream throughput was 642,900 barrels per day compared with 664,300 in the same quarter last year.
On an adjusted basis, Cenovus says its funds flow amounted to $1.05 per diluted share in its latest quarter, down from adjusted funds flow of $1.81 per diluted share a year earlier.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 31, 2024.
