As well as planning your batches in Breww, you can also plan what product will be packaged from these batches. This great tool allows you to help forecast your stock levels by setting what products you plan on racking from your batches in advance without limiting what products you can rack. Creating a planned packaging will enable you to print your labels in advance, reserve non-returnable numbers to use when racking, and optionally, allow you to create pre-orders by creating orders that are scheduled to be delivered to the customer after a planned packaging for products that you do not currently have enough stock of, without this being blocked as an oversell.
Creating a planned packaging
A planned packaging can be created in at any one of three times on a batch in Breww, these are:
- When creating a planned batch
- When viewing an already planned batch
- On a batch in progress
Creating a planned packaging when creating a planned batch
Upon creating a planned batch, there is also the option to add any planned packagings. This will require you to enter the product, quantity, planned packaging date and release date. Our How to create a planned batch in production discusses this in more detail.
Creating a planned packaging on an existing planned batch
To create a planned packaging on a planned batch, head to the Batch schedule from the production dashboard and select a batch. Here, there will be a ‘+’ symbol that you can select under Planned packagings.
Alternatively, you can also select the Planned packagings tab from within a batch and then select Add planned packaging.
Following one of the processes above will present a series of options where you can enter what you plan to package, the quantity you plan on packaging, the date you plan on packaging your products, and an expected release date for the stock.
You are not restricted to a single packaging format and can select to distribute that batch amongst various products for the batch. I have planned to package multipacks, casks and kegs in this example.
By selecting to view the batch, you can organise your planned packaging list in order of priority by dropping and dragging the planned packaging. In the example below, I have racked the 24 X 330ml can product, showing that this planned packaging volume has now been packaged.
Create a planned packaging on an in-progress batch
If your batch is In-progress, you can still add planned packagings to this batch by selecting to view the batch, scrolling down to the Planned packagings tab, and selecting Planned packagings.
Raising pre-orders for products (Using planned packaging)
Once you have created a planned packaging, then you will be able to raise orders using the planned packaging; the help guide below discusses how you can do this.