Asahi has gradually reopened manufacturing at all six production facilities in Japan subsequent to being obliged to halt them due to a digital security breach.
Several major stores in Japan, including key retail outlets, had alerted in the past few days that they faced shortages in stocks of their beverages after the hack affected the company's supply chain systems in the country.
Asahi is the largest beer producer in the country, but it furthermore manufactures non-alcoholic beverages and consumables, in addition to furnishing private-label goods to various sellers.
The slowly resumed facilities create top-selling Asahi Super Dry, but the company is additionally reopening plants that make food and soft drinks.
Extended Impact of the Digital Breach
The cyber-attack is the latest to have influenced activities at prominent companies, with automobile manufacturer an international car company yet to fully recover from an breach that halted manufacturing.
The company also owns a British brand in the UK and international labels including a range of alcoholic drinks. However, exclusively the company's activities in Japan - which constitute approximately 50% its revenue - have been influenced by the breach.
Current Operational Situation
The company stated the resumed production sites in the country were "yet to reach complete functionality", and that two of its beverage plants that have slowly resumed were similarly not functioning at complete efficiency.
It added there were a further five beverage plants that "are set to restart step by step in alignment with deliveries."
Each of the seven of its edible product facilities have restarted activities, although they are likewise not operating completely.
The firm stated the operational technology at the plants directly had remained untouched by the online incident, but it had been compelled to stop output because it was unable to handle requests and deliveries.
Restoration Schedule
Last week, the company stated it was "unable to provide a definite schedule for recovery" but that it was partnering with external cyber-security experts to recover its networks as soon as possible.
