Gain real-time visibility across your brewery, automate manual processes, and link data and reporting across departments with the Baker Tilly Batch Production—a NetSuite application designed specifically for the business needs of breweries that creates an end-to-end operational solution.

When added to NetSuite, Batch Production can help drive down costs, enhance productivity, and save time and resources by implementing a single source-of-truth platform that automates key processes and collects and organizes data into one system to make reporting easy and effective.

Seamlessly connect front-of-house retail and back-of-house production operations—as well as your accounting functions—to consolidate and cross-report key business data and systems. Transform your operations with Batch Production so you can stay focused on what matters most: making and distributing great beer.

Comprehensive Visibility Across Your Organization

Too often breweries hamper productivity and strategic decision-making because they continue to use dated, difficult-to-manage, or non-integrated systems that provide poor reporting.

Enhancing visibility into and across disparate areas of your company, Batch Production can help consistently measure and maintain relevant data to inform the right people on key processes—such as beer production and quality, cost of goods sold (COGS) tracking, inventory management, and product sales by stock keeping unit (SKU), vintage, and brand, or other measurement.

Key department and focus areas can include:

• Sales and marketing. Measure sales across various marketing channels including direct-to-consumer, distributors, wholesale, and more to understand customer demographics and buying history; identify sales by channel, brand, varietal, location; and more.
• Accounting. Collect and manage information for production and sales on which you pay taxes to enhance and automate tax reporting to the IRS. Report finances by brand and channel and evaluate COGS. Automate and streamline Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) reporting to alleviate manual data collection and accelerate report generation.
• Production. Manage and gain visibility into your entire production process including tank and barrel measurement and tracking as well as volume production. Provide insights into entry and exit for each stage of your production process, document all quality management measurements, packaging, and transition to inventory.
• Inventory. Assess tasting room, barrel room, or cave and other inventory, as well as finished good stock, and more with real-time COGS calculations provided to the accounting team for every item.
• Warehouse. Manage all aspects of the warehouse including inventory tracking, lot management, and receipt and fulfillment.
• Supply chain. Provide integrated and automated purchasing coordinated with production, and warehouse management to maintain inventory levels that meet production needs without incurring additional costs from holding excessive inventory.

Customized Capabilities and Features

See how you can personalize your Barrel ERP platform to the nuances of your operations.

Guidance Across Your Implementation Process

Confidently navigate your design and implementation process with guidance from our professionals at each step:

• Solution design. Define design requirements for your unique business needs to provide a solution that provides key process and reporting improvements.
• Configuration. Leverage our NetSuite and industry insight to configure the solution to align system capabilities with your key requirements and processes—with two process walkthroughs to help you understand and validate how processes will work.
• Testing. Plan and execute user-acceptance tests to confirm the system’s functionality, validate it works for your business processes, and verify the software is accurately configured to your requirements.
• User training. Educate and train appropriate employees on how to use systems and incorporate any new processes and software usage into their roles and daily responsibilities.
• Conversion. Go live with system and stay supported with our guidance throughout the first monthly cycle of launch.

Expansive Industry and NetSuite Experience

Deeply immersed in the craft beer and spirits industry, our professionals bring a collaborative approach to engagements that dedicates time to understand the specifics needs of your business and strategically develop solutions contextualized among greater industry trends and activity.

We view challenges from the perspective of brewery owners because many of our professionals previously worked in executive roles within the industry and possess first-hand experience and knowledge of what it takes to pursue your goals.

Through our dedicated Netsuite Implementation Services, our professionals hold top NetSuite certifications and bring real-world experience to solution design—so you’re set up to hit the ground running.

Additionally, our one-firm approach can provide access to comprehensive support and insights in other key areas that may bolster your organization and establish foundations for long-term success.