A modern ERP for alcohol producers

Breweries, distilleries, cideries and wineries manufacturers contend with a wide variety of state and federal regulations, and frequently need to innovate new storage and packaging solutions. Maintaining all these needs can be a challenge with traditional systems that aren't built for process manufacturing or for the compliance needs of the industry.

Today's alcohol production need a system that can process and track ingredients through any production or assembly process. A good system should also provide quick information about the chain of activity in the event of a surprise inspection or recall. Wherefour's start-to-finish traceability™ is ideal for keeping contaminated products from reaching the market.

Whether you private-label, co-pack or produce your own line of beverage products, Wherefour's manufacturing software for breweries, distilleries and wineries supports and maintains your requirements for the R&D, production, inventory control, quality, costing, BRC / SQF lot traceability, FDA compliance, state reporting, planning, scheduling, and warehousing or distribution of beverages.

Wherefour's flexible production module lets you design a custom workflow for product fermentation, manufacturing or packaging that matches the process you are already doing. Overhead, like labor or unexpected costs for a specific production run, can also be added and included in COGS automatically.

Unlike many traditional ERPs, Wherefour's platform lets you create variable results from each batch, or even run a disassembly process where something is purchased and broken into new ingredients that are then used in other products.

One System for SMARTER INVENTORY

Compliant Inventory Control

Custom (and automatic) lot code, barcode or serial number sequences that incorporate batch date, expiration date, julian date, facility, location, etc.

Automatically pull ingredients and supplies via FIFO, FEFO, LIFO or on a per-batch need.

Print GS1, Code 128 or Code 93 barcodes for product, inventory, package or pallet labels.

Automatic alerts for expiring products or ingredients reaching low levels.

Material Traceability

  • Run instant reports showing the inventory movements or changes made by each user.
  • Automatically show shipped lot code detail on customer orders and invoices.
  • Instant forwards/backwards or bi-directional trace reports.

Food Safety / Compliance

  • Recall and production trace reports show which customers got which products (with lot codes!) with one-click.
  • Upload and maintain COAs, bills of lading, photos of deliveries, or other compliance paperwork digitally in one system with searchable tags for easy recall when needed.
  • Design custom QA tests and attach results to stock lots or production runs.

Accounting

  • Directly integrate with QuickBooks® Online, QuickBooks® Desktop, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics or Xero.
  • Sync customer/vendor records with your accounting system.
  • Export invoices and POs to your accounting system.
  • Easily create journal entries for COGS, COGM, or inventory purchasing and usage.

Wherefour continues to upgrade and add options! Their support staff is great and responsive to support tickets. This program runs our entire manufacturing operation and we have had little to no problems. The company listens to the needs of their customers and prioritizes upgrades and features based on immediate customer needs. This is outstanding, and basically unheard of in the industry.

Charles, VP of Operations

Our favorite aspects of Wherefour are the ease of Production planning, tracking, and inventory recording. We are a certified organic organization and having access to all of our records in one place makes our audit periods so easy. Wherefour is truly built out for traceability and it does not fail!

Kaylee, Production and Fulfillment

WhereFour is a great traceability tool with solid capabilities for inventory, recipe management, and cost control. The UI uses modern web tools which makes it easier to use than other older platforms. The technology base also is built on tools that will allow scalability and easier integration with other platforms.

Bradley, Founder

Wherefour is very user friendly, and well suited to our food manufacturing business. We use this across multiple departments daily. The customer support is second-to-none, and from implementation to process integration to product launch we were well taken care of at every step!

Joshua, Director of Operations

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