Purchasing Green Coffee For Business, Part 3: How much? (AI Assisted)
Say you are looking for single origin green coffee to replace your boring espresso blend. You’ve attended several coffee cupping sessions held by some coffee importers, or coffee producers.
Since those cupping sessions promoting their new harvest and also attended by your local competitor, you should make quick decision to get the coffee you want to sell exclusively. Should you purchase all the available coffee that you liked? Let’s not miss the trend, I had asked the Artificial Intelligence with this question “How much green coffee should I purchase?”
We can see both AI machine reminded us with other two relevant factors, consumption and storage, before moving to the next step, about the more exact quantity.
If you want a perfect and precise answer from AI, crafted spesifically for your question, then you should supply them with precise context related to your need. Unless you should hire a consultant. I’m here just for sharing a general knowledge that probably forgotten by some business owner (I met some).
In my humble opinion, the most important factor you should consider related the quantity of green coffee you want to purchase is will you finish roasting that green coffee within a year after the harvest?
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One year after the coffee harvested for me is like a general rule if you want to maintain the quality of the coffee, even if you apply the best way to store the coffee (highly climate control maintained storage system, coffee packed in vacuum sealed/ hermetic bag)
What about more than a year you cannot finish roasting all the coffee? Then you will start noticing the quality degradation. For me, there is no roasting technique that able to hide the quality degradation. You might want to consider to use that coffee as part of a blend, which will require you to do extra work to perform several experiment.
So instead of following your ego about exclusivity for selling single origin coffee in your market, I suggest you to sharpen your coffee business vision at the first place. Once you have clear vision, much easier for you to make decision about which green coffee to purchase and the quantity.
Meanwhile, I also love to try with wrong answer only too.
Jakarta, 24 Ramadan 1444.
