A methodology to assess the maturity level of brewery business processes

Abstract: The purpose of this project is to develop a procedure to assess the maturity level of the brewery business processes to be able to determine the required level of process automation & IT for a brewery.This procedure is made up by several tailored questionnaires that have been based on the Process and Enterprise Maturity Model management assessment tool. This tool is described in the article called The Process Audit written by Michael Hammer and published by Harvard Business Review in 2007.The prepared questionnaires focus on the beer production activities that belong to production operations management, also called MES layer. This framework is originated by ANSI/ISA and the activities are Detailed Production Scheduling, Production Resource Management, Product Definition Management, Production Execution, Production data Collection, Production Performance Analysis, Production Tracking and Production Dispatching.