Breww Enterprise Level?

Help & advice
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Dear Breww ,

Are we going to see an evolution of Breww? I have sat through so many large ERP system demos and quite honestly they suck. BUT they have crucial big picture modules that are essential for any growing business to take the next step.

Is there a vision for a Breww Enterprise Level to customers who are on the precipice of out-growing the functionality and capability of Breww.

Thanks

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How long is a piece of string?… But, yes, we’re working on improving Breww all the time and many large businesses already use Breww and find it works very effectively for them.

It’s evolving every single week. Please see https://updates.breww.com for some of the recent developments. We genuinely feel Breww is moving forward faster than any other comparable platform on the market.

Please do post feature requests for specific features and functionality that would be helpful for you, and we will do what we can to accommodate your requests. We need each independent feature in its own thread, but if you’d like to sound any ideas out in this thread before they become feature requests, we’re happy to discuss them.

I’ve moved this thread to the Help & advice category, as it’s not a votable/actionable feature request itself and this will allow me to keep it open for discussion.

What enterprise features are you looking for?

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Thanks Luke,

To answer with the classic response… “How long is a piece of string?” :wink:

The thought of having to move to one of the large mainstream ERP providers fills me with dread. Breww has built something genuinely different. It’s a challenger in the beverage/FMCG software space, with a far better user experience than many enterprise systems.

The challenge is that, as breweries grow, there are still capability gaps that force businesses to look at SAP, Dynamics, Oracle, NetSuite and similar platforms. I don’t think that’s because they have a better UX—they certainly don’t—but because they offer deeper operational and financial visibility.

For me, the biggest opportunity for Breww is becoming the operational and financial system of record for the entire supply chain, not just production and inventory.

Some examples:

Cost & Finance

  • End-to-end supply chain costing with full granularity (brewed in-house, contract brewed, co-packed, warehoused, distributed, etc.) so businesses understand the true landed cost of every SKU.
  • Recipe development with full cost impact modelling.
  • Better financial reporting by brand, including brand-level P&Ls without exporting data into Excel.
  • Improved royalty management.
  • Native credit note handling to complete the financial loop.
  • Better stock valuation reporting based on actual saleable units (cases, kegs, packs) rather than theoretical individual cans.

Supply Chain

  • Proper transfer workflow with separate “Transfer Requested” and “Transfer Completed” stages, recognising that different businesses own each part of the process.
  • Multi-warehouse order fulfilment.
  • Live EMCS/W8 document generation for duty suspended movements.
  • Better visibility of ullage, including where stock was written off.
  • Improved inventory visibility with customisable views (for example, hiding zero stock items).

Stock & Production

  • One SKU should exist for one physical product. Guest beers shouldn’t require different SKU codes when they’re exactly the same product.
  • Modernised stocktake infrastructure.
  • Inline production scanning for packaging lines.
  • RFID integration for stock movements and asset tracking.
  • Improved pallet management, including configurable label templates.
  • A much easier stock label designer—today it can feel like you need to understand Jinja/HTML just to make a label.

Asset Management

  • Native keg fleet management, including servicing schedules, maintenance costs, utilisation and lifecycle reporting.
  • Vehicle fleet management with service records and cost tracking.
  • Equipment logging and maintenance management (something that’s been on the roadmap for years).

Planning & Reporting

  • More powerful S&OP capabilities. Recent improvements have been great, but there is still a gap to enterprise planning functionality.
  • Customisable dashboards so users see the KPIs and reports that matter to them.
  • AI-powered reporting and analysis.
  • Own-fleet delivery dashboards with meaningful operational KPIs.
  • Better courier/haulier visibility so warehouse staff immediately know who’s collecting an order.
  • Smoother, more modern e-commerce integrations.

Multi-Entity

  • Individual brewer account numbers and beer duty references for each entity within multi-company setups.

Overall, I think Breww has already solved one of the hardest problems: usability. I’d choose Breww’s UX over most enterprise ERPs any day.

The next step, in my view, isn’t simply adding more features—it’s strengthening financial visibility and supply chain management. If Breww can provide enterprise-level cost transparency and operational insight while keeping its current simplicity, it becomes a very compelling alternative to the traditional ERP vendors for growing breweries.

That’s where I think the real opportunity lies.

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Apologies for not responding here before now.

There’s a lot of useful information here, but as there have been other discussions between you and our team in other channels, I’m not going to address this here. Other than to say, for anyone else reading this, that many of these things are already on the roadmap - but we don’t have plans for Breww to officially be an accounting platform that is recognised by HMRC. We will continue to integrate with other platforms for that purpose.