Beverage Solutions Delivered by Tectura

Beverage Solutions Delivered by Tectura

Tectura Makes a Distinctive Difference for the Beverage Industry Beverage manufacturing requirements have become increasingly complex requiring quick visibility into both financial and production data. Aligning all of your business segments to work together and achieve peak performance can be an overwhelming task. That s why you need an industry-specific solution from experts who understand your business. Whether you re looking to improve quality tracking and traceability, get a handle on costing or gain real time data for reporting, TECTURA IS YOUR GO-TO-PARTNER for the beverage industry. We invest our expertise and resources in our clients immediate and enduring success by building relationships that last. You can count on Tectura to bring together the expertise, energy and resources it takes to go the distance.

The Industry Solution for Breweries, Beverage Producers and Specialized Beverage Wholesale Traders Drink-IT built on Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a Microsoft Certified, comprehensive solution for beverage manufacturers and distributors. Drink-IT is an integrated industry solution that addresses the unique challenges of the beverage industry, including the need for detailed product costing and profitability analysis, optimized scheduling and forecasting, improved order fulfillment and customer service, management of pricing and promotions, inventory optimization, and compliance with safety regulations. With Tectura, you can have it all. An end-to-end business solution that meets the requirements of the beverage industry.

Understanding Industry Challenges Tectura understands that the needs of beverage manufacturers are distinctive and require a strong familiarity with regulatory issues, industry best practices, and customer expectations. This understanding comes to life in our Drink-IT solution, developed based on the industry expertise of our team members, partners and years of experience helping beverage companies achieve operational excellence. TECTURA UNDERSTANDS YOUR DAILY CHALLENGES Customer Satisfaction and Profitability: Profits are your company s livelihood, but they must never come at the expense of your customers; keeping your customers happy and profitable are both crucial to maintaining customer satisfaction. Inventory Visibility and Manufacturing Efficiency: Your processes must exhibit efficiency to control costs and increase production, and you must always have the information you need to optimize inventory usage and balance supply and demand. Safety, Compliance, and Quality: Customers, regulators, and business partners demand high product standards and process excellence from your company. Tectura s focus on beverage manufacturing, coupled with commitment to your success, is how we have earned the trust of our clients worldwide.

Customer Satisfaction and Profitability Profits are important to business survival and growth. But unless accompanied by a satisfied customer base, profits are nothing but a short-term benefit. Earning high customer satisfaction while maximizing profitability requires a customer-driven strategy and careful supervision. PRODUCTS THAT MEET CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS Tightly manage lot tracking using the flexible forward backward lot tracking built within Drink-IT. Use a single screen to quickly trace the origins of an ingredient and determine where specific lots were distributed. By not having to trace lots manually, you can save time and can react faster. MANAGE DISCOUNTS AND PROMOTIONS SUCCESSFULLY Reduce the cost and complexity of discounting programs and promotions. One-off, temporary or permanent discounts or promotions are often offered to buyers and end consumers. These can include both direct financial reductions and all kinds of free goods, gadgets and incentives. Tectura gives you the ability to track the results of your promotional activity AND have confidence you are accurately calculating all related aspects such as stock, taxes, empty bottles, invoicing and accounting.

Inventory Visibility and Manufacturing Efficiency Operational excellence is a primary goal for most manufacturers. As you do your utmost to reach productivity and efficiency, your ability to easily access accurate, detailed inventory information is critical. Drink-IT provides the capabilities you need to streamline manufacturing complexities and optimize inventory controls while maintaining full operational visibility.

Safety, Compliance and Quality The threats and potential costs associated with safety and regulatory compliance have never been higher. Tectura provides a comprehensive solution to help you manage and monitor your critical manufacturing processes, enabling all standard processes to be documented and tracked in order to support your most strict reporting requirements. TRACE LOTS ACCURATELY Respond thoroughly and quickly to regulatory inquiries. Trace forward from supplier or backward from customer with equal reliability, using a number of variables, including lot, supplier lot and customer order. MANAGE CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS Keep customers happy by meeting their specific demands for product quality and process excellence. Provide thorough and reliable documentation of quality control and maintain consistently high standards, reducing the cost of rework and ensuring customer satisfaction. DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE Protect your brand reputation and minimize disruptions by maintaining the ability to demonstrate compliance to regulators. From audit trails to traceability, you have the functionality needed to comply with FDA and/or TTB regulations, including current Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). When traceability is part of the ongoing production process, you can maintain lower costs, while at the same time ensure compliance.

Drink-it Module Highlights Tax Management Calculate taxes (sales, excise, etc.) with ease. If your company produces or distributes goods such as beer, wine, champagne, ethyl, alcohol products, non-alcoholic beverages, etc., based on a country s or state s legislation, you may be subject to various taxes. Drink-IT can automate this complicated task. Empty Goods Management Gain confidence with an accurate listing and account processing of empty bottles, cases, casks and kegs at any given time. Calculate empty goods, in both sales and purchasing, ensuring the correct value and available stock of empty bottles, both inside and outside the company, is available. Also manage the charging and crediting of deposits for the empty goods. Discounts and Promotions One-off, temporary or permanent discounts or promotions are often offered to buyers and end consumers. These include both direct financial reductions and all kinds of free goods, gadgets and incentives. Track the results of your promotional activity AND have confidence you are accurately calculating all related aspects such as stock, taxes, empty bottles, invoicing, accounting, etc. Telesales Timely customer service is critical. Schedule to contact your customers to renew their order based on their needs. Gain access to current promotions, customer order history, product catalog and information on production, empty goods, deposits, discounts, transportation, accounting, etc. all available on screen and designed to support your telesales team s sales efforts. Shipping Matrix You have the orders now you must deliver them. Easily coordinate transportation, factoring in maximum capacity of your vehicles, delivery schedules and which goods should be placed on which vehicle and in which order. Point of Sales Similar to telesales touch screens, quick access to a detailed overview of all available products, quantities, promotions, etc. Various means of payment, such as cash, checks, credit cards or coupons, may be linked to this module. Property Management Whether your needs around property management consist of building maintenance both short or long-term, technical support, licenses to be issued or rejected goods that need to be sent to the lab for inspection; the property management module can handle it all. This module consists of three components: building management, cellar management and leasing (rent) and loan management. Manufacturing Manage your business from the purchasing of the raw materials to the packaging of the end product. Used primarily for stock planning, technical management and capacity planning for equipment used in the production process, the system also manages the lot traceability of raw materials, intermediate products, and if required, finished products. Quality Management Extensive quality reporting, resulting from user defined in-process, quality measurements in the production process for the intermediate and finished produced goods, including the initial quality testing of ingredients as part of the receiving process, drives the visibility you require.

The Tectura Advantage Tectura is a worldwide business solutions and technology services company, delivering exceptional service and sustainable value through software, consulting and IT implementation. With team members in 20+ countries, Tectura applies its industry knowledge and best practices philosophy to provide Microsoft-based ERP, CRM and technology solutions throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. As a leading Microsoft Dynamics Partner, we maximize our vast technology resources and deep Microsoft expertise to deliver increased efficiency, project acceleration and a competitive edge.

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