Answers to eight commonly asked questions about barrel ERP

As your brewery-based business grows, it’s important to have access to data in real time across multiple departments and locations to help manage your business.

Rather than compile multiple systems together, you can use an integrated software solution to help connect these dots. Powered by NetSuite, our proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, called Barrel ERP, allows you to manage your brewery’s business by helping to leverage meaningful real-time data across all processes, areas, departments, and locations.

Here are seven of the most commonly asked questions about Barrel ERP.

1. How can barrel ERP help brewers navigate business disruption?

As tasting rooms closed and distribution channels were disrupted, successful breweries quickly pivoted their business models — making it clear how important it is for breweries to stay nimble and better leverage technology when managing their business. Specifically, access to data across departments and locations can increase efficiencies, even as market conditions fluctuate, and help management base their decisions on facts instead of feelings.

To stay competitive during this time and potentially capitalize on new opportunities, breweries will need to unify their product development, supply chains, manufacturing processes, and distribution networks. If they don’t, they could risk getting lost in the industry’s increasingly competitive markets.

The key features of Barrel ERP can enable a business to understand its bottom line and how the business makes money. This is integral to the brewery’s success. Barrel ERP is industry specific, cloud based, and mobile ready. It can provide real-time insight into a brewery’s operations — supplying customized, financial reports on sales, production, inventory, and cost of goods sold (COGS). It can also help breweries decrease operating costs by revealing financial metrics, accurate net-operating profits, and production capacity and efficiency.

By increasing visibility and automating processes, breweries can often decrease daily costs, increase control, and better manage the business. This, along with dynamic revenue analysis, can help them make better-informed business decisions — and these decisions can lead to consistent gains over time.

2. What are barrel ERP’s key features and benefits?

With Barrel ERP, every aspect of a brewery’s core business can be more easily automated and managed.

Key features include: