Inventory Control System at Miller-Coors

Inventory control is a big problem for many corporations and Miller-Coors is not the exception. The need to track four different activities is often over whelming. Miiler-Coors tracks their inventory by characteristic, inventory activities, recall products and traceability. Due to the many different brands of beer produced and each brand uniquely brewed inventorying by charactereristic is the chosen inventory style for Miller-Coors. To help with the forecasting activities are inventoried also. Beer is not produced on an assembly line and takes time for beer to go through the many stages required for a finished product. The quantity in each stage must be inventoried. Just like every other product beer can go bad, to find the problem the beer must be able to be trace threw the system to find the problem.
The first step in making beer is selecting the proper grain the grain of choice is barley. Miller-Coors are contracted with over 800 hundred framers and provide grain to 75 percent of them. 800 different framers trying to produce the same quality is virtually impossible. To have better control of quality Miller-Coors should buy out as many farmers as possible and grow their own barley. Miller-Coors buys barley from farmers in four states - Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana but North Dakota is a better choice because 90 percent of the state is farm land that is about 39 million acres. Instead of contracting with framer Miller-Coors should sub-lease the land and open their own framing division in North Dakota. The farmers could be hired by Miller-Coors to tend to the farms but the overall control of the land would be Miller-Coors’ while it is leased. The average price for leasing land in North Dakota is $50.00 but due the large ...

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...ntal awareness training to the staff. A consulting firm fees vary from firm to firm but the average cost is $140.00 per hour. The fee is very small compared to the fines for noncompliance.
Inventory and emission control are problems that have had major effects on Miller-Coors. Many millions of dollars has been spent to provided farmers with the proper tolls needed to produce the best quality barley grain and irrigation systems. This money would be better spent funding their own farming operations. Ownership will give Miller-Coors total control of the grain used in production. The biggest problem Miller-Coors is facing emission control. With a score of 2.8 out of 5 SAM Score Miller-Coors is falling behind the industury standards. To be known as leader of an industury Miller-Coors needs to lead in every aspect of the word.