In recent years, the change of lifestyle and living standard of HK and mainland people drives the demand of wine. The prospect of wine industry is optimistic and expected to grow continuously. Many traditional wine suppliers tend to grab such good opportunity to expand their business. Thus, a good system is crucial to success.

Recently, Techland successfully implemented TecE ERP system for several wine suppliers. Differ from the general trading software, TecE-ERP focuses on fulfilling the unique requirements and workflow of wine business.

Uniqueness of Wine business
The price of wine can differ considerably, depends on the region, vintage, appellation, RP score, etc. TecE ERP system provides user-definable item groups and analysis codes which can be set according to the characteristics of wine. Different costing method can be applied to different item groups for higher flexibility. TecE ERP also supports lot management for cost control and traceability.

In addition, wine suppliers always have to reserve the wine for customers before the goods arrive to warehouse. TecE ERP system provide details matching report on wine procurement and customer order delivery to avoid human mistake and enhance service quality.

En Primeur and Wine Storage
En Primeur means selling wines early while a vintage is still in a barrel, offering the customer the opportunity to invest in a particular wine before it is bottled. Advance payment is made by customer at an early stage (12-18 months) prior to the official release of a vintage. On the other hand, wine storage requires specific temperature and humidity control, so some wine suppliers will provides wine storage service to customers to store the wines they bought in wine cellar.

TecE ERP system can handle the en primeur selling, customer storage service to delivery processed by automatically transfer the goods between virtual and physical warehouse, and provide detail analysis report.

Integration with Retail and Online Store Operation
Many wine importers / wholesalers start to expand their business to retail and online store in order to maximize their profits. TecE ERP can integrate with bar code and POS (Point of Sales) systems easily to enhance the efficiency and integrity of front-line and back-end operation. The information of ERP system can be connected to the web site for supporting the online shopping business.

To learn more about the application of TecE-ERP in wine industry, please feel free to contact us at 3793-6666 or visit our website: www.techland.com.hk