Investing in plant and machinery is expensive, especially if it is not utilised to its full potential or if it is only used seasonally. Many alcohol companies are broadening their product lines to make fully use of their investment and market reach. For example, wineries making spirits or breweries making gin.
Are you or your staff having trouble remembering to select the right Stock Location during operations? You can now tell Vinsight your preferred Stock Location when creating Winery or Packaging Operations, and it will be filled in for you every time you create a new operation automatically. The next time you go to create an…
Wondering where to review your yield numbers? Go to the ‘Where Is It Now’ tab on a Harvest Entry or Bulk Receival to view a summary of where the product from that entry has ended up and to view your yield as a percentage.
Do you use set ingredients and quantities to create your brew? Save time by adding a ‘recipe’ to Vinsight to ensure default instructions and ingredients (with quantities adjusted to reflect the volume you are working with) are at your fingertips whenever you do an operation. Add a ‘recipe’ by creating a new operation type with the default components…
Setting the standard cost of finished product is now easier. Packaging is a critical control point in costing, so we’ve always enforced you to review costs at this point. However, you no longer have to manually enter the calculated standard cost into the stock item. Once reviewed, simply click the ‘Use as standard cost’ button. This…
List views in Vinsight are now sortable by Column Headers. Simply click on the column that you want to sort by and the list will be sorted by that column in ascending order. In the following example, the ‘Customer’ header in the Sales Order List has been clicked to sort the list into alphabetical order.…
The saying is that “there’s no accounting for good taste“, luckily however this is not the case for wine where Vinsight plus Xero can offer exactly that. Perhaps more explicitly we are offering Accounting for Good Wine. Xero is an online app that offers an accessible, well priced and well designed accounting platform that when…
An audit trail gives you a visual picture of the operations carried out on a particular batch or tank. This is a very clear and easy way to view and track the flow of production through to finished items. The following example shows the path of a particular fruit receival from crush, through blends and…
The Dip Chart area has recently received some updates that make dip lookups lightning quick, and also accurate along the entire tank length. Previously there was no easy way to verify that your dip charts were working correctly, short of entering a lot of dips and checking that the volumes returned by Vinsight made sense.…
Time for your daily ferment run? Leave your paper and pen behind, grab your iPad or tablet and enter test results directly into the Vinsight app as you go. Once the run is complete, view the graphed results to see how your ferments are progressing. Use ‘Data Entry Mode’ to enter data for several vessels at…
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