Tracking casks in real time

摘要

Dewar's Glasgow facility, the first of the new warehouses to go live, is a warehouse in the original sense of the word: A place to store product for the long-term. Some casks may age for two decades before they are needed for a blend. Casks are delivered to the warehouse from the distillery where they are unloaded at the receiving area. Six casks fit onto a storage pallet. An operator scans a license plate bar code on the pallet and then scans a bar code on each cask that associates the casks with that pallet in the inventory management system. Casks are loaded onto the pallets by lift trucks with a special attachment adapted for handling the barrels.