Question

what is the challenges in term of warehousing for Yakult probiotics drink?

provides any recommendations

Answer 1

Yakult is a probiotic drink which contain a large number of useful bacteria, which are useful for human body and they must be in our gut and brings in many health benefits. These drinks help in maintaining the healthy number of useful bacteria in our intestine which are normally lost due to medication mainly.

Because of its content have live bacterial it becomes very challenging to store and transport these products, as these products need a temperature below 10 deg. Celsius right from manufacturing to consumption in order to keep the bacterial alive. This unique nature of the products makes it very difficult to warehouse this product and this product has also got shorter shelf life. However, there are resources through which the loss can be minimized and quality products can be made available to consumers with complains on quality and its hazards.

Few of the recommendations are:

1. Warehouse should be of controlled temperature environment.
2. Staff should be given ample training to understand the importance of maintain the temperature at desired level.
3. They should try direct selling
4. Delivery the products to the point of consumption through temperature-controlled boxes.
5. Warehouse should not be kept at large distance from point of consumption.
6. Small and more number of warehouse to be kept in order to avoid the risk of product loss in case of any malfunctioning of temperature control of warehouse.