You can run a pre-brew stock by going to Production → Actions → Pre-brew stock check. This tool will check all your planned batches (and ad-hoc additions) to see if you have the required stock items to brew them.
If you are missing any items that you need, you can get Breww to automatically generate the required Purchase Orders (POs) to ensure this stock is ordered and delivered to you in time.
Placing an order for the missing ingredients
Having run your pre-brew stock check, simply click the Generate POs for missing stock button above the results.
You’ll have to option to choose which supplier should be used for each item (with Breww defaulting sensibly for you). Breww will also round the quantity up to multiples of your supplier’s pack size and ensure it is above the minimum order quantity for that supplier.
Breww will then generate a summary for you to confirm. Just click Create POs and your draft POs will be automatically created. Once you’ve reviewed them and made any manual adjustments (for example to purchase something extra), you can confirm and send them to your suppliers.
Hello, I’m in a bit of a problem place with this pre brew stock option. I need to see stock in our brewery (Magic Rock) but it only shows me both breweries (Fourpure & Magic Rock) can we get a filter on this ASAP please? I’m lost without this functionality.
Is there a way to add functionality for supplier lead times when calculating stock needed? When using the pre brew stock check to generate a PO, the PO defaults to the next day for requested delivery but supplier lead times may be much longer and even be beyond the date the stock is needed. I can create a feature request if this is possible.
Hi Jack, thanks for your comment! Currently, this functionally doesn’t exist; however, there is an existing feature request called Possible to track Order Lead Times for purchasing Raw Materials? . If you could add your vote to this, as well as give any additional comments, that would be great! Cheers!
In Generating a pre brew stock check for upcoming brews I end up with a report that shows that we need stock for beers that have already been brewed and moved to a fermenter/or brite. I dont understand why It wants to order for in progress beers. There is no way to set a start date for stock check that i can see. What I am wondering is there a way to order specifically for Planned bactches since in progress batches have been done?
This should only occur if ingredients are not added to the in-progress batch but are required based on the recipe, so they are still required and must be accounted for when considering stock availability. Perhaps these ingredients are in recipe stages that have been set not to allow the ingredients to be auto-allocated, or there was no stock to allocate. If you have an example you would like us to look into, I would be happy to jump into your account and take a look. I would just need you to create a support ticket through the need help section of the Breww menu and grant us access to the account.
Can we get the ability to sort this report? I want to see how close we are on specialty malt but its not sorted. I can see any rhyme or reason how this report is sorted.
Also it would be really handy if on the Generate Missing PO’s for Stock page if we could delete certain items from the list. Maybe I don’t want to make a PO for something that is missing just right now? Could be I don’t need that for months.
Hi Aaron, Thanks for reaching out! I definitely agree that having this more organised would be a helpful addition to Breww; perhaps having it organised by stock item sub-type, for example. If you could raise this as a feature request so this lands with the right team, that would be great!
You can set the quantity to order for items on the ‘Generate POs from pre-brew stock check’ page to ‘0’, which means that these won’t be included when generating the PO. Let me know if you need anything else. Cheers!
