Perhaps Planned Packaging could be slightly ‘smarter’?..
For example, I know that I’m going to plan to rack a cask beer 1 week after it was brewed, and then plan to release it a further week after that…
Currently, if for some reason we have to change the brew schedule, and move the brewing day of a cask ale, I then have to edit the planned racking day and planned release day manually.
BREWW could be able to have a setting that would do this automatically?
I agree with Jon - the thread he’s linked to is the one you need to vote for, @Langers. This thread is something different (although both do relate to planned packagings). Cheers
We’ve just started using Sellar and currently, without this feature, we aren’t sure how to have current stock listed on that store front, without it being allocated to large orders months in advance (when additional packaging is planned).
Any large draft or confirmed pre-order wipes out available stock and shows a product as unavailable in Sellar even if we know we will have sufficient by the schedule and planned packagings.
Hi Luke, we ran into this issue again with one of our cores and it prompted me to check in on the feature request. Have you managed to discuss it with the team yet?
We’ve spent quite a bit of time discussing how to solve this, and it cannot really be solved without some major changes to how we handle stock levels behind the scenes. It’s basically a complete rewrite of how stock levels are tracked in the underlying database And when we embark on this, we need to know that we’re going about it in the best way possible, so we don’t ever have to do a rewrite of this again!
We know how important this is (thanks for the votes, everyone), so we’re committed to implementing these changes, but I don’t have a date yet on when it will be available; I’m sorry. But we haven’t forgotten, and this will come one day for sure
Hi I just stumbled into this problem in our test environment. I thought I had read that with the planned pack it would work ok, but have now realised it doesnt. We work off allocations of our own system and our team are regularly asking to swap allocations around, i cant see how we can make this work.
We are still finding this to be a major issue, especially now we are looking to secure larger orders ahead of time.
Being able to confirm and part-invoice customers for orders that are ahead of our planned packaging dates means we can no longer sell those products on our website, as it shows as OOS.
I recognise that this may be a diffcult feature to code in, but it is I feel an essential one for any brewery looking to fulfill larger orders.
We know how important this is to so many people, so we’ve put a huge amount of time and effort into planning & solving this request recently… and we’re delighted to finally be able to say that this has been implemented
Breww now better tracks the stock changes by date (sales, planned packagings & delayed racking releases) and so can better determine how much stock will be available on future dates.
To help you understand this, there’s a new “See the future” button on product pages that will allow you to see future stock level changes for the product and why.
You don’t need to do anything; this improvement is already live on your Breww accounts. The new figures will also be used on the Breww Trade Store and be synced to integrated external sales platforms (but please allow a short time for these updates to sync to external platforms).
We hope this makes life easier and thank you everyone who voted, commented and made it clear how important this was to you
Hi Luke, thanks so much for working to address this - huge help! I’ve been looking at how to use it this morning and have some observations/questions. Not sure if these are best addressed here or via another thread, so feel free to move it elsewhere if more appropriate. The first thing I’ve noticed is that the Available Products Report, which we use as a live selling/prospecting tool, now shows beers (in this case, one-off specials) that have planned packagings entered in the future without indicating that these are future products, but of course if you try to add one you’ll find no stock unless the order date is past the planning packaging date (bit confusing if you’re not aware of the schedule and have a customer on the phone ordering).
Secondly, I’ve created a future batch of a core beer and can see the Available Products Report now includes future stock count but no visual cue that not all of the are available ‘now’. Could this report perhaps have a date drop down that defaults to ‘today’ so will only show what’s physically on hand to sell now? If you want to see what’s available for an order next week, set the date forward and the stuff that’ll then come into stock appears?
Secondly, on a product page that has current and future planned stock, I can’t see the things you’ve included in your screenshot with the future stock changes breakdown. Do I need to enable a setting somewhere? Or how to I navigate to get to that view? Thanks!
Ignore my second secondly (clearly need more coffee) as I’ve now spotted the crystal ball icon! However, there does seem to be an issue with the numbers unless I’m misreading them. I have a product that we physically have 15 of but 7 are on order.
If I click the crystal ball, it seems to double count those 7 that are on order at it deducts them again leaving me with just 1 in that view? Seems it’s working from the Available rather than In Stock figure before reflecting pending orders?
Andy, we’ve made a couple of corrections and tweaks based on your feedback, so thank you for this.
We believe everything you’ve pointed out is now working fully as it should, but please do let us know if you see anything else that doesn’t look quite right.
As the Available Products Report has been corrected to not consider any future planned packaging, there shouldn’t be a need for a future date on this report to “fix” anything. However, if this would be a helpful feature anyway, then feel free to open its own feature request thread.
Hi Luke, yes indeed - both of those issues are now resolved, thank you. I’ve now gone on to test the following scenario and it’s not working as I expect:
30 cases of Oregon Trail are in stock today
Planned packaging on 10th March for 84 cases (1008)
Place an order for 20th March for 40 cases
Try to place an order for today for 2 cases but stock level is now -10 not 30
Thanks, Andy. Would you mind opening a support ticket (and granting us account access), so we can review this specific example for you and ensure all is working as it should be? Cheers.
Hi, we’re having an issue with breww showing kegs as available when they are actually out of stock. I think this might be related to these changes you’ve made. We have 3 in stock, two on future orders, so one available. Breww is telling us that, for an order to be delivered tomorrow we have 3 available, allowing the kegs to be oversold!
Hi Bob. Thanks for the message. We’re not aware of any issues with this feature.
If you have a planned packaging (or racking delayed release) that would make stock available between now and the future order’s delivery/invoice date, Breww may be expecting those to be able to supply the future order, thus giving you three still available today.
If you still think there’s a problem, please open a support ticket with the example product (and grant us account access) so we can look into it for you. If there is a problem, we’ll ensure it’s fixed promptly. Thank you.
Sure, ticket raised.
When I look at the product it says 0 available. When I raise a new invoice it tells me there’s 2 available. I assume this is linked to this major improvement.
Just to confirm I’ve now tested this with kegs from the same future racking and it’s working fine for kegs, just the 12 pack cans I’m struggling with. I’ll update my ticket.
And when we embark on this, we need to know that we’re going about it in the best way possible, so we don’t ever have to do a rewrite of this again!
button on product pages that will allow you to see future stock level changes for the product and why.
