INTRODUCTION

On November 10, 2022, Tapiwa and I went for a field trip to Buffalo breweries
located in Mt Hampden with an aim to visit the procurement, quality as well as the
production departments and we arrived there at 12:00am. We planned to visit the
brewery to find out about who they are as well as what their core business is.

OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the trip were to get to know the brewery in more details in terms
of its operations, to get exposure on the product lines and to know who their
chemical supplier was.

FIELD OBSERVATIONS
We met Mr. Nyahodya, the procurement manager, who explained in detail the kind
of beer they produce, their current chemical supplier as well as their product lines.
He also made inquiries that we send him quotations on the following products;
1. Nitric acid 60% - 510 kg
2. Liquid caustic – 200kg
3. Power liquid – 75L
However, we could not meet the quality assurance manager as well as the
production manager who had gone out for their company’s projects therefore we
failed to get as much information as we intended to. Due to these constraint we
appealed for Mr. Nyahodya’s contacts to arrange for a Monday trip.

FIELD RESULTS
 Client – Buffalo Breweries.
 Location – Mt Hampden
 Core business – Production of opaque beer
 Capacity of production – Not yet known as they are still conditioning their
plant site
 Product lines – Nyati Beer
 Shift system – day shift at the moment
 Ares to be cleaned – Canteen, ablutions, production and storage tanks
 Competitor – THS
 Competitor Products – CIP Acid , lift away multi-purpose cleaner
 Usage of chemicals – not yet known, to obtain information on Monday
 Cleaning routine – general cleaning
CONCLUSION
Our trip ended at about 13.30pm. It can be concluded that meeting was not
successful since some of the objectives were not achieved. We wish to obtain more
on our next trip on Monday.