Bramvia — Business Central Experts
What a US winery, brewery or distillery needs from its ERP: lots and vintages, bonded and tax-paid inventory, blending and bottling, and the TTB operations reports and excise returns built from the same transactions.
Short answer: a US winery, brewery or distillery reports to the TTB on its own operations and pays federal excise tax on what leaves bond, on top of state excise, the three-tier system and label approvals. The TTB reports depend on the premises: the Report of Wine Premises Operations for wineries, the Brewer's Report of Operations for breweries, and monthly production, storage and processing reports for distilled spirits plants, plus the excise tax return. What a producer needs from its ERP is to record each movement once (receipt, fermentation, blending, aging, bottling, removal) and build those reports from it, with bonded and tax-paid inventory kept apart. Business Central handles lots, vintages, tanks and barrels as bins, blending and bottling as production, and separate bonded and tax-paid locations. TTB reporting is added with an extension.
Sound familiar?
- The TTB report is rebuilt from spreadsheets every month or quarter.
- Nobody can say quickly which tank a bottled lot came from.
- Bonded and tax-paid stock are tracked in different places.
- Distributor depletion reports never match your shipments.
Out of the box and with an extension
| Need | Business Central | With an extension |
|---|---|---|
| Lots, vintages and expiry | Yes | — |
| Tanks and barrels as bins | Yes | — |
| Blending, aging and bottling | Yes, with production or assembly orders | — |
| Bonded and tax-paid inventory | Yes, as separate locations | — |
| TTB operations reports and excise returns | No | TTB reporting extension |
| Distributor EDI and depletions | No | EDI app |
Where we work
Across the US: California, Oregon and Washington wine country, New York's Finger Lakes, the Kentucky and Tennessee distilling belt, and craft breweries nationwide. We work remotely in English.
How we work
We start with a free assessment of your premises, your reporting and your current system, then implement in phases. Each phase is invoiced only after you accept it. Pricing.
FAQ
Does Business Central file TTB reports out of the box? No. It records the transactions; a TTB reporting extension builds the operations reports and excise returns from them, so nothing is keyed twice.
Can we keep the reduced craft rates straight? The reduced federal rates under the Craft Beverage Modernization Act depend on volumes removed, which an ERP that tracks removals by date and product makes straightforward to report.
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