Sponsored QC, Scheduling & Flexibility: Software Strategies for Success with Randy Smith of Vicinity Software

In the beginning of a brewery’s life span, the ownership and employees juggle several tasks and responsibilities across departments. Using the proper tool to store your data will take you a long way in your growth. But what you started using in the beginning may be missing the mark now.

When moving forward and expanding your business, standardizing and centralizing data is essential. Leveraging tools within your brewery software helped you get to where you are today but what is the next step? Is your brewery management system growing with you?

As your brewery grows, roles and business processes become increasingly specialized and so should your supporting software solutions.

When organizations take a “best-of-breed technology” approach in association with its brewing process, a brewery can choose a feature-rich solution that serves all aspects of the business.

In this presentation, you will learn more about features every growing brewery needs:

–Are tracking and data analysis more important today?

-Lot Tracking

-Integrated QC tests

-Integrated raw materials tests

-In-process QC tests

-Evaluate formulas and analyze recipes by QC test results

-Track yeast genealogy

–Is your brewery struggling to create and communicate the brew & fermentation schedule?
-Schedule by tank
-MRP (Material Requirements Planning)
-Visual calendar
-Brewery-specific production setup
-Forecasting

–Is your software flexible enough to grow with you?
-When should you consider moving to a more structured software system?
-Excel to QB to Microsoft Dynamics

Vicinity Software, founded in 2001 by CEO and founder Randy Smith, drew upon his family background and years as a consultant to create a software solution focused on manufacturers in the batch process industries. Their product–VicinityBrew—is a comprehensive, scalable brewery management software system designed for breweries and distilleries. It’s a flexible system that allows breweries to connect departments across finance, sales, production and distribution with a first-class feature-set in a cohesive, centralized system. From managing raw materials to creating a complete cost breakdown, VicinityBrew gives brewers the tools and flexibility to meet the rapidly changing demands of the brewing industry.

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