SABECO enhances production capacity to affirm its position

With a history of more than 140 years of serving Vietnamese consumers, SABECO’s nationwide system includes 26 factories, 10 member trading companies and a network of more than 100,000 points of sale spread throughout the country, the Corporation Saigon Beer – Alcohol – Beverage part (SABECO) continues to affirm its position as one of the leading corporations in Vietnam.

Mr. Bennett Neo, General Director of SABECO shared “Our goal is to build SABECO to become a globally competitive Vietnamese enterprise, so that Vietnamese people can be really proud of SABECO and Saigon Beer”.

With a system of 26 factories nationwide, SABECO always pays attention to the uniformity of product quality. Beer brewing materials are imported from European, Australian and American countries. In addition, close coordination with raw material suppliers, packaging and production is always focused to ensure the source of raw materials with stable quality. Using modern production technology effectively, the device is imported from leading European equipment manufacturers such as Krones AG and KHS. The production process is closed, highly automated, overseen by experienced brewmasters (brewing experts) trained in Germany.

SABECO is currently applying a system of international standards of quality management, hygiene, food safety, environment and energy to manufacturing plants across the country, including: Quality management system (ISO 9001: 2008); Food hygiene and safety management system (ISO 22000); Hazard analysis and critical control point system in production (HACCP); Environmental management system (ISO 14000); General requirements for laboratory and calibration capacity (ISO 17025) and energy management system (ISO 50001) etc.

Saving energy and contributing to reducing environmental pressure during the production process is one of the issues that SABECO always cares about. In particular, electricity consumption decreases from 1% to 4%, while heat consumption decreases from 2% to 6%. Currently, in SABECO’s system, there are a number of factories that carry out energy audit and have an energy management system meeting ISO 50001: 2011. As a result, production costs are also significantly reduced, increasing product competitiveness with other businesses in the same industry.

Not stopping there, SABECO is also applying a new warehouse management program; increase beer production capacity up to 90% of total production capacity; installing solar power systems for a number of factors; Continuing to build comprehensive “SABECO 4.0” in the future.

With continuous innovations from production technology learns to flexible application of new management tools, SABECO has achieved very positive results in the first 6 months of 2019. Specifically, SABECO achieved sales. net revenue of VND 18,425 billion (up 8.5% compared to the same period last year) and profit after tax of VND 2,820 billion (up 15.2%), fulfilling 47.4% of the revenue plan and a 59.8% Profit plan for the whole year of 2019.

Productivity and Quality Office