Beverage manufacturers and distributors face an uphill battle. From stricter regulations to tax implications and even deposit management, operating in the beverage industry can be especially difficult. It’s even harder if your company isn’t using an ERP solution created specifically to handle it. That’s where Aptean Beverage - Drink-IT edition comes in.

Streamline Your Beverage Business Using Industry-Specific Features

Aptean Beverage - Drink-IT edition is not just an ERP solution for the beverage industry; it’s a partner that will guide you through implementing best practices and tackle the unique challenges facing breweries, distilleries, alcoholic wholesalers/distributors, cider producers and even soft drinks manufacturers. We do this by offering you a set of applications to create a comprehensive ecosystem that address each key area of your business:

Tax Management – Calculate and report excise taxes based on all movements in and out of a bonded location or based on a sales and purchase invoice.

Empty Goods & Deposit Management - Keep track of your kegs, bottles, crates and pallets. Retain an overview of customer and vendor deposit balances per type.

Sales and Purchase Conditions - Charges, promotional items and discounts on multiple levels implemented with a commercial, logistic or payment incentive in combination with a volume commitment.

Advanced Sales Management – Allow for more efficient orders using a fast and user-friendly entry page with extended sorting and filtering of items, along with historic information.

Logistics - Plan your orders efficiently using your own fleet or a 3 party shipping company and implement constraints on weight, pallet locations or other variables.

Customs Document Management - Full process integration with the European Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS), enabling the e-AD electronic exchange on any inbound and outbound goods movement.

Event management – Provides a 360 degree view on events providing beverages, reserving loan material and returning goods.

Contract Management - Facilitate and connect outlets and pubs by contractual agreements, including rent, loans, loan in use items and others with fixed and volume based financial settlements.

Advanced Warehouse Management - extends standard warehouse management features, fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. It removes the need for double admin and switching between several processes and third-party systems that impact on your teams’ productivity.

Alcohol Balance - Tax authorities demand an on-line, up-to date administration of the alcohol volume in your company. Report at any time, for any warehouse opening balances, increases, decreases and end balances of alcohol volume and explain losses from production, storage, samples or else.

Beverage Production - Combines several enhancements such as active ingredient, Principal component and many more to extend the production process in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Key Features

· Created for Beverage Manufacturing – From distilleries to breweries and more, Aptean Beverage - Drink-IT is created specifically for beverage manufactures with features to address unique industry challenges

· Bonded Warehouse Support – Tax calculations can accommodate movements in and out of bonded warehouses, ensuring you are always calculating the correct amounts based on location.

· From Manufacturing to Distribution – Aptean Beverage - Drink-IT is not just for production; the solution also has strong features for planning orders using an in-house fleet or a 3 party shipper

Pricing

Aptean Advanced Bundle Beverage Drink-IT edition - Manufacturing is free to use for the first 30 days. A paid subscription is required after the trial expires. Please contact us for more information on the pricing.

Supported Editions

This app supports both the Essential and Premium edition of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (which must be installed in advance).

Supported Countries

Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Morocco, Mozambique, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Supported Languages

English, French, German.

Aptean Advanced Bundle Beverage Drink-IT edition - Manufacturing

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