ERP for Breweries & Distilleries

What are the Challenges in Brewery Manufacturing?

The brewing industry has undergone several major changes recently, which has forced the beer manufacturers to think about ways to alter their business strategy in order to navigate the market shifts. This, coupled with the existing challenges such as the consumer’s demand for higher quality beers, increasing production costs that have put breweries’ bottom line profits at risk, need to increase the shelf-life of the products, and deal with increasingly competitive products, has dominated the mind-space of the brewers in recent times. To emerge victorious out of this situation, the brewers need a specialized brewery ERP software.

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How does ERP help in Brewery Manufacturing Industry?

'BatchMaster ERP for Beer', a specifically-tailored solution for brewers, handles procurement, shipment, inventory plus quality & compliance requirements, and also understands the criticality of storing recipes, maintaining its different versions, and assisting brewers with R&D. The software also helps the brewers by offering stronger control on the brew assembly to have maximum visibility on margins on per-bottle and per-barrel basis. As a result, brewers can instantly track the actual cost of brewing at any stage of the production. BatchMaster ERP for Beer’s in-depth tracing and tracking features, right from vendor procurement, batch production to customer shipment and backwards, keep the brewers prepared for unexpected audits by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

Key features of best brewery management software

Supports Distribution, Manufacturing, Finance & Accounting, Quality, Compliance and Inventory needs
Defining and tracking of barrels, bright tanks, fermentation vessels, packaging material, etc.
Visibility into each barrel for the type of beer and for how long it has been aged
Complies with The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) and Alcohol Beverage Control & Liquor Control Board compliance requirements
Establish flavor-profile
Recipe management, versioning, security and approvals
Manage seasonal product offerings
Handle bottle returns and spoilage
Track barrel-aged beer
Supports blending, brightening, fermentation, filtration and all stages of beer brewing
Manages returns and empties
Simplifies complex pricing matrices
Yeast management and filtration support
Material and package costing

Bi-directional lot traceability and lot recall
Efficiently handles merging of batches in barrels or splitting of batches to meet last-moment customer requirements
Inventory balance reports based on barrels, damages, returns, etc.
Inventory balance reports based on the various processes: brightening, fermentation, packing, filtration, WIP, previous month comparison, etc.
Allergen management
Lot strength beer
Nutritional labelling
Ingredient statement and report
Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
Quality Assurance (QA) & Quality Control throughout the supply chain
Supplier/ Vendor management
Shelf-life determination
Inspection planning and inspection schedule
Adverse event and complaint reporting
Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA) & Non-Conformance (NC)

BatchMaster ERP as brewery software offers following benefits:

Streamlined operations
Business efficiency
Cost savings

Informed decision-making
Ability to demonstrate regulatory compliance
Greater customer satisfaction

Assured quality and timely supply
More revenues
Competitive advantage

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Happy Customers

Sohel Shikari

Chief Financial Officer

"We were impressed how BatchMaster treated Nutritional Information, Formula Revision and more, simply fulfilling our purpose. Other glittering areas of BatchMaster were how it liberated us from quality worries through its intensive quality control and HACCP modules."

Marc Tremblay, Director of IT

Newly Weds Foods International

“With success in China, we decided to implement BatchMaster in Australia, with business two and half times that in China. Again, being successful in Australia also, we implemented in Bangkok and the Philippines as well. BatchMaster seems to be doing the job very well for us!”

Adnan Gerges

Deputy General Manager

"We'd like to thank BatchMaster for all the efforts done to make this project succeed. And also thanks to all the implementers and the development team of BatchMaster for being always with us to solve all the issues that we faced during the process of implementation."

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BatchMaster Software is one of the market leaders in offering enterprise software solutions for the process manufacturing industries. With an in-depth industry analysis, gained through a vast industry experience with over 2000 implementations worldwide, we clearly understand the unique industry challenges. BatchMaster offers ERP solutions that are apt to support industry specific operations and handles critical processes of the micro-verticals. Process manufacturing companies around the globe have come to rely upon BatchMaster® to manage nearly every aspect of their manufacturing distribution, finance & accounting, Quality Control, Compliance and HR- related operations. With headquarter in Laguna Hills, BatchMaster has its offices in New Jersey, India and New Zealand.
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