KD is startup company - want modestly priced lines, but want to hit the five year goal most important

Boots Bottling Line

First Year Capacity = 3.36 million bottles

Year five = 14.4 million

Building is already in place, waiting on bottling line to design.

Layouts will be available and architect will be at disposable.

5500 sq ft and 11 loading docks

southern end best for installation

Bag and Box will be planned there as well

Must be glass bottling line and want it to be up and running in 2017 or 2018

Bottling equipment - none in place, have a couple company names that sell used equipment

Questions
1. what bottling equipment is available to automate the process?
2. how much do you want to automate the process? --> KD
3. what steps must be taken to bottle?
4. will bottles be reused? --> KD
5. how many bottling lines do you anticipate? --> KD
6. how many workers for each line?
7. will you be only be bottling soft drinks? --> KD
8. will u be manufacturing the concentrate in the same place? --> KD

Routing Optimization
current system designed over decade ago when selling 800000 cases annually

Three major roles in how beer gets to cutomer:

salesman - gets invoice for the customer, uploads to sales software encompass technollogies, availaeble
for that day
warehouse - the next day, pull up the pick sheet for that route, build everything, each store gets its own
cart

Driver delivers to account, downloads his day, loads all carts

Thursday morning won't get delivered till monday

bars, restaurants, - every few days

grocery stores (HEB - high volume) delivered more than once a week

Carts are loaded first in on the bottom and older bottles on top.

want to decrease reloads

gamedays and other days have more demand --> need to look at data
groceries account for the most volume

three segments: in town grocery, convenience stores, on premise : restaurants and bars

sales men sells two days in advance so you can anticipate delivery in advance

have different size trailers - use longer trucks for longer deliveries so everything fits
last three days of the week, have an extra driver, helper, truck when loads are overflowing

want to be efficient, don't want to over work guys, even hours, minimize long hours

time on route is very important

same stops are visited on any given day every week - fixed routes, want to keep some continuity but are
open to changing routes
Questions
1. what days have pattern of heavy demand?
2. can we optimize these routes where there is heavy demand?
3. how many drivers are currently employed? --> KD
4. can we assign more drivers on days of heavy demand?
5. groceries are high volume - what is expected demand?
6. is there a faster way to load the trucks?
7. can we increase the size of the carts?
8. what's the process of loading carts?
9. what's average work hours, max hours, and min hours?
10. how heavily trafficked are current routes throughout the year?
11. what're the possible routes to minimize distance traveled for trucks?
12. what're possible routes to minimize time on road?
13. local data needed: records of work hours, current employee counts and job functions, route
maps, locations served, frequency of deliveries to locations, records of how many bottles
supplied to each location throughout year, total number of crates, total number of carts,
procedures to ensure worker safety, record of how often trucks must be refueled, area of
warehouse, layout of warehouse, total number of trucks available by size ------> KD