You can now set a target cost for each beer, and Breww shows you the variance whenever a batch comes in either over or under that target. Drifting costs show up on the batch as soon as it is packaged, rather than at year end.
Here’s what’s new:
- Target costs per beer. Set a liquid cost per barrel, hectolitre or litre, whichever your brewery works in, plus a packaging cost for each container type and packaging format you use. Everything is edited on one page covering all your beers, and Breww suggests starting figures from your recipes and default packaging stock items, which you can accept one cell at a time or all at once.
- Variance on every batch cost report. Each batch is compared against its targets for each container type, with variance reported per unit and as a percentage. Anything over target is flagged in red, anything on or under in green.
- The COGS vs target report. See actual costs against target across all your batches, so you can spot which beers and which months are drifting.
- Dated changes. Costs move, so targets are versioned by date. Schedule a change from a given date, and older batches continue to be measured against the targets that applied when they were brewed.
- Target costs on product pages. Each product page shows the target cost of the stock you hold, along with its actual cost to produce.
- A new cost basis for your margin reports. The margin reports and the sales by salesperson report can now cost each sale using actual costs, on-target costs, or actual costs with targets filling in for any batches that had no costs recorded. If you don’t cost your batches in Breww, or only started partway through, your margins now reflect actual costs rather than showing the full sale value as profit.
Learn more about target costs in Breww and the cost basis option on margin reports.