1851 BBPA Ramp Initiatives

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Stephen Livens

Senior Policy Advisor, Brewing

BBPA RAMP Initiatives:

RFID Tagging and Industry Shared

Pallet Pool


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Who or what is the BBPA?

British Beer and Pub Association Started in 1904 (Brewers Society)

Today, UK based trade association:

London HQ 3 regional offices

Membership organisation:

96% of the beer produced in the UK More than half of the UKs 54,000 pubs

Introduction


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BBPA Function The key function of the BBPA is to positively influence the

regulatory climate, protect commercial freedoms and facilitate

trade

Involves supporting members to operate safely and efficiently, to

maintain the quality and safety of products to the consumer and to

comply with all necessarily regulatory and legislative requirements.

Support is managed through member participation as part ofBBPA technical panels.

Panels are tasked with ensuring that the interests of the

industry are represented and that the BBPA has all necessary

information required to develop relevant guidance or best

practice where required.


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RAMP

The Returnable Assets Management Panel(RAMP).

The Panel was set up in 2006

Address the issue of container losses which were

becoming an increasing issue for the industrycosting millions of pounds per year.

The Panel of representatives from brewing

companies meet on a quarterly basis and aretasked with developing and monitoring bestpractice for the management of containers withinthe beer supply chain


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RAMP Current Activities

Two major activities are currently

monitored by RAMP: Keg Watch

Best practice in container management Watching brief on container deposit

schemes


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RAMP Current Activities Keg

Watch Keg Watch are an organisation working alongside the brewing

industry and supported by brewers, cider makers, trade

associations, container owners and dispense gas suppliers.

Its aim is to continuously improve the recovery of containers via

liaison with the licensed trade, beer wholesalers and pub

companies.

Keg Watch endeavours to identify containers that have fallen

outside the normal distribution process and are therefore deemed

to be at risk to theft for their scrap value by being crushed if theyare stainless steel or smelted/crushed if they are aluminium.


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Best Practice in ContainerManagement


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Container Best Practice Aims of Best Practice:

Significantly improve the control of containers intrade and within the supply chain

Reduce the risk of misappropriation

Improve the speed and efficiency of containersmoving through the supply chain, particularly

when empty

Clarify the responsibilities of participants in the

large pack supply chain


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Container Best Practice Complementary to Keg Watch activities

Agreed best practice protocols and operationalprocedures as outlined in Technical Circular 418:

Order processing

Outlet delivery Return to depot

Container sorting

Container repatriation

Creating & managing container database.


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Container Best Practice Best practice is divided into mandatory

and non-mandatory categories Monitoring of BBPA member

implementation of best practice in

container management: Quarterly RAMP meetings

Annual questionnaire to wider membership Annual workshop session for BBPA members

hosted by RAMP


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New Initiatives

In 2011 RAMP requested permission toinvestigate two areas of potential benefit to

the brewing industry: Industry wide pool of pallets and locator boards

RFID Tagging of containers

TOR for the two projects submitted to FutureBeer Group for consideration

June 2011 - projects agreed and RAMP givengreen light


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Locator Board Pooling Project


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Background & Context

There is an unofficial pool

Disproportionate input to the pool

Varying standards of board

Containers repatriated on non standard

boards

HIGH

COST


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What are we trying toachieve?


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Purpose of Project

Understand the current state in detail

Make recommendations to improve orsimplify the locator board supply chain

Minimise cost at industry level. This may include the creation of an official

pool.


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Benefits:

Advantages of formalised pool

Improved availability Improved control and quality

Reduced cost for the industry as a whole Improved visibility of volume in the pool


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Barriers:

Potential issues

Lack of information at industry level in terms

of: Spend

Standards

Usage, etc

Ensuring supply / availability

Complexity Demonstrating value


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Questionnaire and Progress

Meeting held at end of 2011

First stage to issue a questionnaire to all BBPA BestPractice Champions:

Identification and Use

Spend

Type of board Distribution

BBPA will collate responses and report resultsanonymously to the working group

Next meeting - 2012


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RFID Project


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Background and Context

Historically prior interest in the technology

Development and wider uptake hampered by inabilityto support bulk scanning

Wide scale wholesaling through brewery networks

may now warrant development of common standards: Intercompany trading

Container location tracking

Need to identify implementation opportunities aspotentially high up front investment


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RFID what is it?

Radio Frequency ID

Passive High Frequency Tag:

Preferable to an active tag which requires a power source

Active tags are low frequency and cannot be read in bulk

Passive tags should last the life of the container

Current RFID technology now allows both:

Bulk Scanning

Individual Scanning


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RFID Scanning Options

Shared use read-stations, no reliance on single

providers

Gate portals:

Located at gatehouse entrance/exits

Warehouse entrance/exits (track containers on sitei.e. forklift movements)

Conveyor readers (cleaning/filling/loading lines)

Handheld readers for dray deliveries and in trade


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RFID what can I do with it?

Use for container tracking

Use for container planning & control Losses

Cycle time

First customer track Return to depot monitored

Available to fill

Assessment of draft beer quality


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What are we trying toachieve?


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Purpose of the Project

Determine reasons for why the industry shouldn't

adopt RFID technology

Address any potential competition issues associatedwith the project workstreams.

Ensure engagement with industry at all levels (SIBA,

regional, national, international)

Consider existing population

Application to other assets:

Locator boards/pallets

Gas cylinders


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RFID Supply Chain Opportunity

Not just a mechanism for tracking containers

Need to consider other benefits connected with the

supply chain:

Infeed rejection

Warehousing

Load Validation

Electronic Receipting

Cellar & Quality Management

Ullage control

Container maintenance / failure prevention


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RFID What next?

Specify what the industry want

Scale benefits

Identify suppliers: Intelitap

3M

Avonwood Prepare IT

Physical

Database Further validation of bulk scanning


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RFID What next?

The Elephant Task

Fit tags to all new containers? Retrofit over x years (variable speed)

Companies determine what elements (if any)

they will use Realistic aim to have all new containers to

include RFID tags by 2020?

Report back on next steps to RAMP Feb 2012


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Thankyou

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