With eCommerce, SKU proliferation and labor shortages posing additional challenges to beverage operations, experts note that voice picking solutions can help simplify the complex challenges warehouses now face.

In beverage operations, where speed, agility and accuracy bring advantages, experts note that artificial intelligence (AI) is making the future of warehouses more dynamic.

Many warehouses are shifting toward the use of robotic lift trucks (RLTs), with recent industry surveys showing that the adoption of RLTs has increased 14% during the past year.

With consumers demanding more from their beverages, brand owners are employing a myriad of concepts to help the next generation of new products succeed. 

Fresh tasting, clean label and safe are all attributes that are driving beverage-makers to utilize high-pressure processing methods.

From an operations perspective, the processing of materials to create or enhance a liquid beverage from whatever source is the start of the supply chain.

The labor shortage impacting the warehouse and transportation sector is resulting in operations managers turning more to automation solutions like automated guided vehicles.

The transition of containers and closures from a relatively standard size, type, material configuration scenario to the current broad spectrum highlights the practicality of standards from environmentally acceptable and economically feasible viewpoints.