Distillers & Brewing Edition
ERP Built for
Distillers & Brewing Businesses
Batch recipe management, excise duty compliance, vessel and barrel tracking, and taproom-to-wholesale channel management, NexWave gives craft and commercial beverage producers one platform from grain to glass.
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Industry Challenges
The real cost of the wrong system for distillers & brewing
The distillers & brewing sector has complexity that generic ERP simply wasn't built for. Here's where it hurts most, and how it affects your bottom line.
Excise Duty Calculation & Compliance
Excise duty on alcohol is calculated differently across NZ Customs, the ATO, and HMRC, varying by alcohol content, volume, and product category. Without automated excise calculation integrated into production and dispatch, the risk of underpayment or overpayment is constant.
Batch Recipe Consistency & Yield Management
Achieving consistent ABV, flavour profile, and yield across production batches requires recipe adherence, actual ingredient recording, and post-fermentation measurement capture. Without a batch production system, quality consistency depends on the individual brewer.
Maturation Inventory & Barrel Tracking
Whisky, rum, gin, and aged beer tie up significant capital in barrels for months or years. Without a dedicated maturation inventory module that values casks by fill date, estimated loss to angel's share, and anticipated release date, your balance sheet and production planning are both incomplete.
Vessel & Tank Capacity Planning
Fermenters, bright tanks, and conditioning vessels are finite resources. Without a vessel scheduling tool linked to your production calendar, you risk scheduling a brew run into a tank that won't be free in time, or leaving capacity idle while demand goes unfilled.
Taproom & Cellar Door + Wholesale Channel Management
Running a taproom alongside a wholesale distribution business means different pricing, different pack sizes, and fundamentally different customer interactions. Without a system that handles both from the same stock pool, you risk selling the same keg twice.
Seasonal Ingredient Sourcing & Availability
Hops, grain, and botanicals are seasonal. Forward contracts, spot purchases, and import logistics need to be tracked against planned production volumes to prevent a mid-season ingredient shortage shutting down a brew run.
Implementation
Live in 8–12 weeks
Our proven implementation methodology has delivered a 99% go-live success rate. We handle the complexity so you can focus on running your business.
Discovery & Planning
Weeks 1–2, Requirements workshops across your key teams. Process mapping, data audit, and configuration blueprint signed off before build begins.
Core Configuration
Weeks 3–4, System configured to your business rules, product structures, and workflows. Historical data migrated and validated.
Integrations & Training
Weeks 5–6, Shopify, Xero, and other integrations activated. Role-based training delivered across all key user groups.
Testing & Go-Live
Weeks 7–8, Full UAT, parallel running, and hypercare support through your first live operating cycle. We stay close until your team is confident.
Platform Modules
Everything your distillers & brewing business needs, fully connected
NexWave is configured for the specific demands of distillers & brewing, with the workflows, compliance tools, and integrations your team needs built in from day one.
Manufacturing & Batch Brewing
Recipe BOMs with ingredient quantities, target ABV, and process parameters. Works orders for each batch with actual ingredient capture, in-process measurements, and final yield recording.
Vessel & Barrel Management
Tank and barrel register with fill date, current contents, ABV, and estimated ready date. Angel's share allowance calculation, blend planning, and automated transfer scheduling.
Excise Duty & Compliance
Automated excise duty calculation by product type, ABV, and volume for NZ, AU, and UK. Duty return report generation, bond store management, and a full audit log for regulatory inspections.
Stock Control & FEFO Warehouse
Raw ingredient lot tracking, finished goods batch management, FEFO picking enforcement, and minimum shelf-life rules per wholesale customer to prevent returns.
Order Management & Trade Pricing
Wholesale order management with customisable trade pricing by channel, standing orders for on-premise accounts, and flexible pack size configurations from keg to case.
POS & Taproom Management
Native point-of-sale for taproom or cellar door operations, linked to the same stock pool as wholesale. Tasting flight management, merchandise sales, and end-of-day reconciliation.
Accounting & Duty Accruals
General ledger with duty accrual accounting, Xero integration, cask valuation on the balance sheet, and multi-currency for imported ingredients and export sales.
Analytics & Brand Performance
Batch yield analysis, margin by SKU, channel sell-through, taproom revenue per session, and excise duty as a percentage of revenue, giving producers the data to price and brew more profitably.
Interactive
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Sales & fulfilment
Sales order to delivery
Pick list and delivery note
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Purchasing
Purchase order to general ledger
PO, receipt, invoice, and GL
Walk through purchase order, goods receipt, supplier invoice, and general ledger entries in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing works order
Plan, WO, job card, and receipt
Walk through production plan from sales orders, work order, material transfer, job card, and finished goods in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Accounting
Accounting & financial reports
P&L, balance sheet, and dashboard
Walk through home, accounting workspace, profit and loss, balance sheet, and accounts dashboard in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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CRM
CRM pipeline
Lead to sales order
Walk through lead, prospect, opportunity, quotation, and sales order in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Analytics
Business intelligence
Dashboards and KPIs
Walk through selling KPIs, dashboard charts, and a customisable Sales Order Analysis report in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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See NexWave working for your distillers & brewing business
Book a personalised demo with one of our distillers & brewing specialists. We'll walk through the modules most relevant to your specific operation.
From NZ$415/month · 8–12 week implementation · 99% go-live success rate · No hidden fees
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