Brutos

Common Challenges

Food and beverage companies face unique challenges, especially as they grow. They must adapt operational processes to support growth, changing regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.

Brutos delivers the agility a growing business needs in areas like:

Brand management

The ability to quickly define and produce seasonal and specialty products is a strong differentiator for craft and micro-brewers. However, turning ideas into finished products is easier said than done—especially if you rely on basic tools like spreadsheets to communicate and keep teams in sync.

Brutos puts brand management at your fingertips so you and your team can consistently and efficiently produce high-quality products.

Production and packaging management

Increasing operational efficiency reduces costs at every stage of brewing. Brutos integrates the production process from concept to can by bridging process gaps, eliminating inefficiencies, and accelerating production cycles.

Traceability

Recalls are extremely disruptive for food and beverage companies, including breweries. Luckily, you can minimize disruption by properly tracking ingredients, packaging, and finished products from receipt to distribution. Brutos's native traceability and inventory control tools help prevent recalls—but should one happen, you'll be prepared to respond quickly.

The Benefits of Brutos

Capabilities

With Brutos, your entire team—from finance to fulfillment—will collaborate better and accomplish tasks faster.

Brand management
Create, manage, and define new brands that differentiate your business. Manage and track batch variations across many attributes, such as supplier, production date, and ingredients.

Production, packaging, & scheduling
Create and manage production and packaging orders. Schedule and release them for processing.

Traceability
Track everything from raw ingredients to finished goods across the complex global supply chain to comply with strict industry standards and easily manage recalls.

Quality control
Create inspection profiles, pass/fail reports, and tasks to capture quality metrics and meet standards. Plan and execute quality tests from raw materials to product packaging.

Compliance
Satisfy regulatory obligations with specialized reports for deposits, duty tax, and more. 

Inventory management
Manage item profiles, forecast demand, and track raw ingredients, finished goods, and packaging supply levels. Track byproducts, coproducts, yield, wastage, expiry dates, FIFO, and FEFO. Reduce waste without losing sales from out-of-stock inventory.

Sales & customer management
Manage customers and contracts across multiple channels. Easily enter and process sales quotes and fulfill orders. 

Accounting & finance
Manage, track, and perform accounting and financial functions like cash flow management, purchasing, and invoicing. 

Warehouse management
Manage inventory by bins, locations, and zones. Easily receive, ship, and transfer inventory from any mobile device. Track warehouse movements forward, backward, and on demand. Reduce losses by distributing products with the shortest shelf life first.

Interactive dashboards
Get a 360-degree view of your business, control critical operations, and monitor performance. 

Real-time, cross-functional reporting
Use accurate data to make faster, more informed decisions. Get answers to critical questions in minutes, not hours.

Deploying Brutos

Integration is the lifeblood of business agility and a competitive advantage in fast-evolving markets, and it every company needs it. That’s why Vision33—business technology, process, and integration experts—developed The Saltbox Platform.

Saltbox is a cloud-native, low-code integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution that empowers small and midsized companies to integrate disconnected systems like ERP, quality management, eCommerce, and third-party logistics (3PL). By eliminating data silos and automating manual processes, Saltbox unlocks new levels of operational efficiency and cost savings.

Powered by AWS, the Saltbox engine transforms your data to ensure system compatibility and comply with user-defined workflow logic. Connectors seamlessly integrate Saltbox with anything—from modern cloud-native apps with REST APIs to legacy and proprietary applications and data warehouses.

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Services and Support

Our world-class team provides exceptional, ongoing support for your business after go-live with our customer service program TOTAL Care.

As market demands evolve and your business needs change, Vision33 will continue to help you find innovative solutions to stay competitive.

Success Stories

Companies like Community Foods experienced the same issues as you: multiple disconnected systems, no visibility, and a lack of real-time information for decision-making. Operating a food and beverage business with these challenges stunts growth and prevents success. These companies recognized the need for an all-in-one solution to manage their operations and chose SAP Business One.

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