Study and Reduction of Truck Turnaround Time in the Brewing Industry

Abstract

Truck turnaround time is the average time between a truck’s arrival at any plant and its departure from the same. This indicates the efficiency of receiving and shipping processes. Production is meant for dispatch. If produced goods are not dispatched to the consumers at the right time, the buyer will be less interested to lift the material from the vendor and the same applies to the consumers. The consumers are the happiest when the cost of product is minimum which excludes all the detention charges. The organization is always willing to recycle the trucks that are used in the transportation of the goods while more trips can be planned. Reduction in bottleneck at the loading and unloading areas was suggested based on scheduling the truck arrival time, online tracking of the truck, depending on the availability of the truck and the distance the drivers had to travel. By implementing the above possible methods, truck waiting time, cost on detention charges and total turnaround time were reduced considerably.