Orion understands that your enterprise-size winery needs to effectively manage and track production across plants and even wine-growing regions. WiPS meets those needs by providing a multi-plant, multi-brand structure. The application is composed of several tightly integrated functionalities (driven by table-based, user-defined business rules):
►harvest ►laboratory analysis
►grape payment ►intended use & trial blend
►winemaking & cellar operations ►dry goods
►work order create ►cost accounting
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CORE FUNCTIONS
*HARVEST: Create weigh tags to manage grape receipts for validation and passage into winemaking. Drain and press operations record yield and capture initial cost based on grape pricing. This function provides comprehensive reporting of all aspects of harvest activities and results.
*GRAPE PAYMENT: Provides flexibility to determine how and when grower payments are made and under what terms and conditions.
*WINEMAKING & CELLAR OPERATIONS: Plan, execute and record all winemaking and cellar activities that occur from receipt of fruit to final bottling of finished goods. This feature keeps in mind materials may be stored at and moved between multiple plants and possess multiple brands and includes intended use and ownership identities.
*WORK ODER CREATE: Winemaker defined templates drive the generation of detailed cellar work orders that enfore consistency and eliminate vessels conflicts.
*LABORATORY ANALYSIS: Analysis results are linked to the correct vessel and blend lot even after the material has left the vessel.
*INTENDED USE and TRIAL BLEND: Finished goods products are anticipated by assignment of intended uses and use of a powerful trial blend function, which accurately calculates every aspect of the proposed final blend including cost.
*DRY GOODS: Track inventory levels and usage by lot. Transfer Dry Goods between Plants and keep traceability record for FDA compliance.
*COST ACCOUNTING: The main cost element of wine is the grape cost. Other costs, all user defined, may be added through allocation or work order activity. Open period controls and comprehensive reports provide a complete bulk wine valuation and reconciliation.
WiPS also integrates seamlessly with the following additional functionalities:
►government compliance ►document imager
►grape intake planning & receipt ►multi-company function
►barrel management ►web query and reporting
►contracts:grape & bulk sales/purchases
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ADDITONAL FUNCTIONS
*GOVERNMENT COMPLIANCE: WiPS facilitates compliance with TTB, FDA and State Department of Agriculture regulations. It supports the classification and reporting of wines by tax class, varietal composition and appellation. It will track dry goods lot usage and product traceability so you can confidently respond in the event of recall or quarantine.
*GRAPE INTAKE PLANNING and RECEIPT: Plan ahead for the grape intake from company-owned and outside vineyards by date and time. Schedule every detail of the days activities including picking times, haulage details and crush stream. Monitor this plan in real time as the trucks arrive at your weighbridge. Record every detail of each load, including bins, and print all required forms and certificates.
*BARREL MANAGEMENT: Purchased barrel groups have facts and attributes that reflect country, forest, year and cooper. To give you a complete oak profile of the wine, this data is held at the individual barrel and is passed on to the wines that are stored in these barrels. Operational efficiencies are achieved by locating every single barrel into warehouse, row, stack and level by the use of barcode scanning technology.
*CONTRACTS for GRAPE and BULK SALES & PURCHASES: Demand for and surpluses of all materials involved in the winemaking process-including grapes, juice, concentrate, bulk wine and high proof-are managed against the backdrop of your standing inventory. Plan contracts, commit inventory, and record samples and shipments to stay on top of all aspects of sales and purchase.
*DOCUMENT IMAGER: All types of document and images-handwritten, photographs, signed contracts, invoices etc. –can be stored and retrieved against grower blocks and contracts to make your administrators more efficient, even when they are out of the office and cannot access those hardcopy files.
*MULTI-COMPANY FUNCITON: Business entities may take different legal forms (e.g. C Corp, S Corp, LLC, etc.) and a range of business integration models involving multiple companies within complex enterprise wineries. To handle this, WiPS supports full multiple-ownership scenarios enabling material inventories and transactions to reflect ownership by different legal entities with the ability to report each separately.
*WEB QUERY & REPORTING: A full-function, web-based query and reporting tool based on Information Builders Web Focus product is available. Orion provides a comprehensive set of data-views of the WiPS database to enable users to extract, display and print information to suit their specific business needs.
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ABOUT US
Orion Wine Software is the leading, proven provider of software for the wine industry with more than 300 customers worldwide. We offer solutions to help wineries manage their operational information, enabling them to improve productivity, reduce errors and save money. As needs change and businesses grow, our team promises to be there with fully supported products and continual enhancements so you can concentrate on building your winery business. Our exceptional commitment to the wine industry and product improvement has established Orion Wine Software as the first choice for wineries seeking world-class software solutions and services.
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