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The Relevance of the Data production supply chain model is that its capable of creating and displacing brands in the market at reduced costs while making sure there are sufficient points of difference in packaging and trademarks.

Data production Supply Chain models allow more customization to be placed into the product supply chain allowing customers to choose more about how they want their products and services allowing the Customer to create copies of brands and services on a much smaller scale 

“The law has always allowed for comparative advertising, however, companies that understand This and use distinctive features of established brands as a springboard for many of their products.” are shaping the traditional methods used to sell new products 

Currently, the coffee industry is traditional in its approach to the use of new techniques. This opens up endless possibilities for new brands coming to market and the competitive nature that coffee brands can deploy using technology as part of core stratergy.

Blendly commercial coffee marketplace creates transparent access to fresh coffee production via our scalable production facility, giving the global coffee consumer opportunities to transmit greater economic and social value in their coffee blends.

Blendly allows your coffee blends to be developed, shared and redistributed across multiple sales channels giving your brand and its values a wider audience. Blendly also enables your brand to have automation support and management as your coffee reputation grows.

Blendly marketplace allows sustainable and transparent access to fresh coffee production for the global coffee consumer by giving them transparent access to the components that make up their everyday cup of coffee.

Many customers are noticing shortages in their everyday lives this is due to the current supply chain – which has been affected in light of the three critical challenges facing global supply chains: labour shortages, equipment availability, and the ripple effect of global bottlenecks

As highlighted in a recent Investment Monitor report After months of shortages – first, on supermarket shelves and later at the fuel pumps – the UK’s food supply chains are set to be a somewhat unconventional discussion point at many a Christmas table, given that concerns are being voiced over the availability of some of the traditional favourites. As the UK enters 2022 with uncertainty still clouding Brexit and a new Covid-19 variant spreading, consumers are likely to continue to suffer the brunt of food supply chain disruptions.

The trifecta of Covid-19, Brexit and labour shortages has turned the weekly shop into an endurance test for many. According to a survey conducted by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), 17% of buyers could not find essential food items they needed on a weekly basis on 10-18 November. The percentage went up to 24% for “other food items”.

Between the weeks starting 8 September 2021 and 8 November 2021, an average of 42.5% of buyers did not find everything they needed, from essential food items to fuel and medicine.  These food supply chain disruptions are not just for Christmas, however. Indeed, 2022 comes with its own set of additional hoops to jump through to avoid further food supply chain disruptions.

In January 2022, full custom controls will be introduced as part of the UK’s exit from the EU, which Bielby expects to prove challenging. Covid-19 will continue to be an issue, he adds, saying: “We don’t know what is going to happen with the various strains. There are going to be more lockdowns, and more restrictions on the economy, which is clearly going to cause problems as well.

“The problems are only going to get worse. We are going to see a lot of inflation and we are going to see continuous shortages of labour.”

To future-proof the UK’s food supply chains, Bielby says that the government could go some way towards plugging the skills shortage by helping with incentives and creating temporary visas of at least 12–24 months. He also stresses that the border problems relating to Northern Ireland are likely to remain problematic.

For Patel, securing UK supply chains requires a “two-pronged approach”. “First, improving efficiency by increasing automation [from farms to factories], and by using technology to drive more accurate forecasting to reduce waste through the value chain,” he says.

“Second, attracting and retaining workers, which is partly about pay but also about improving conditions and making food and drink an attractive place to work.”

In the short term, it seems like consumers will have to “deal with slightly less choice than they are used to, as well as price increases driven by broader input cost inflation”, concludes Patel.

Experts and industry bodies have been voicing their concerns for some time now, and few seem satisfied that the UK will enter the first few months of 2022 with strong and reliable food supply chains. Indeed, the additional Brexit-induced hurdles on the horizon mean that the issues will likely get worse before they get better.

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Building the next  geration procurement tools in line with the ongoing thinking and compliance Blendly.co.uk understand the value of transparency and governance as a tool to develop new services and operates for its partners

The National Procurement Strategy sets out local government’s ambitions and priorities for the next four years, focusing on the three core themes; leadership; behaving commercially and; achieving community benefits.

• showing leadership
• behaving commercially
• achieving community benefits

Working with Blendly Local government can deliver on the strategic objectives as well as contribute locally to the local economy, Blendly allow Local government to develop greater insight into establishing new talent, and develop partnership reward structures as well enabling digital innovation to build long term development is education, local development, and training and creating the tools that can embed change

 

 

 

Over the last few months, we have all been witnessing pressure on prices and to date we have worked to minimize these pressures in the Blendly marketplace. We have introduced new account types and also added ways for your customers to build value with you in how they can have their everyday fix of coffee and we look forward to working with you to build more value in the New Year.

Green beans prices have been increasing over the last quarter and are now at 10 years high. Due to pressure on these commodity prices – The Blendly marketplace will start to reflect the current changes in these commodity prices.

Although green beans from all over the world have been affected as all our products are individually priced according to the mix of beans. Some blend mixes will remain relatively unchanged, however, South American beans such as  Brazilian and Columbian are noticeably affected.

We will continue to innovate over the coming year to build more value into our services. As well as build new types of accounts that allow everyone that we work with to build more value and open up more channels for your coffee blends.

Over the coming days, weeks, I look forward to catching up.

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The boom in the specialty coffee industry has been going on for several years. Baristas are tirelessly gaining experience, broadening their knowledge of coffee, honing their skills, and mastering modern techniques. However, the increase of professionalism is missing one of the basic coffee-related areas. Baristas know more about coffee flavours and blending than they do about roasting coffee. Roasting is still largely treated like a secret knowledge, a craft for the chosen ones. So, what is coffee roasting and what does it look like? Let’s find out!

The Secrecy Around Coffee Roasting

Lighter roasting of high-quality Arabica beans in craft roasteries is a new and, therefore, still underdeveloped area. Everything was trivial as long as all coffee was roasted dark and consequently, every brew tasted very similar.

The famous third wave of coffee forced the roasters to significantly expand their knowledge, develop analytical and sensory skills, and gain a lot of patience and humility. Coffee roasting has its truths, half-truths, understatements, myths and incorrect assumptions. One person says one thing, the other says otherwise. Knowledge is largely passed on in closed master-student relationships or books, none of which has so far provided decent comprehensive knowledge for people to understand and share.

Going forward you will now witness the foundations of roasting in a simple form and a picture will be painted of what coffee roasting is all about.

Roaster

Coffee is roasted in specialized roasters. The vast majority of them are the drum roasters. They are usually powered by fuel in the form of flammable gas. The most important element of such a machine is the coffee roasting drum. It’s a bit like in a washing machine, it’s cylindrical and it spins. Inside the drum there are paddles, which scoop the beans to ensure an even, cyclical, rotational journey through the roasting process.

The Flame

The flame is located directly under the drum. It turns the fuel supplied to it into a flame, the intensity of which is controlled by the operator. The flame is a source of energy – it heats the drum to the desired temperatures, which roasts the coffee.

The Cooling Tray

This is found directly under the exit, through which the roasted coffee is dropped at the right moment, thus completing the roast. The beans need to be cooled in order to stop the chemical reactions from taking place in them as quickly as possible. Therefore, just before the drop, the operator starts the mixer and a separate engine draws in the air, cooling the heated material. The mixer arms ensure even distribution of the coffee beans during the roasting process.

How to Roast the Coffee

Now that the introduction steps are complete, we can get into the actual roasting process of the coffee beans.

Hot air roasts the coffee, it goes through the drum and has to get away somewhere. The chimney allows dust and particles from the raw material and the smoke generated in the final stage of roasting to escape. Air transported through a separate channel cools the beans. The panel is the roasting command centre. It allows you to click, start, change and switch when necessary.

The Roasting Process

Coffee is a strikingly complex raw material. Even relatively small changes in the pool of substances contained in the beans will bring out completely different characteristics in the ground coffee, not to mention the brew.

Here are some popular aromas in the specialty-quality Arabica and the chemical compounds behind them, formed during the roasting process:

• Nuttiness
• Bitterness
• Caramel, honey and
• Fruitiness

The longer the coffee is roasted, the more; acidity decreases, bitterness increases, sweetness rises and then diminishes, and body increases and then decreases.

The Famous Crack

Here is a typical roasting profile designed for professional roasters.

The so-called crack is a very important moment for a roaster. At some point, the water in the roasted coffee beans turns into steam. Increasing pressure builds up and the fruit grows, it begins to crack and steam escapes. This moment is marked by specific noises that can be compared to the loud destruction of air bubbles from the bubble foil. This is what will have the most important influence on the taste of the brew.

Roasting Coffee at Home – Will it Work?

The simple answer is yes! You need an oven or a pan or a popcorn maker for this. If you use an oven, it must first be heated to the highest temperature. Coffee beans should be evenly distributed on the baking tray and then put into the oven. When roasting coffee at home, you cannot control changes in coffee temperature, so do not leave the oven and wait for the first crack. What happens next depends on our trials and experiments. Remember that after taking it out of the oven, the coffee should be cooled down. If you choose to roast coffee in a pan, the rules are similar. The coffee must be put into a dry, hot pan, but throughout the process you need to stir the beans so that they roast evenly. You wait for the crack, then observe the colour of the beans, and then remove them from the pan and cool them down. If you have a popcorn machine, you don’t have to worry about mixing the beans.

Coffee Roasting, as you have now read, is a very complex and delicate art if you are trying to get the perfect blend and flavours. If you want to mess around and create your own coffee bean roasts, it is indeed possible, but it will not yield the professional results that come from experienced coffee roasters. Coffee Roasting is in essence an art form that achieves extraordinary results.

Now that you have had an inside look at coffee roasting and the intricate process involved, why not visit the Blendly website and choose or create a coffee blend where the roasting has already been done for you, all you have to do is the fun part, choosing your coffee.