COGS isn’t the sexiest topic, but your winery can’t afford to ignore it ‍Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) isn’t exactly a dinner-party topic—but your winery can’t afford to ignore it. It’s not just an accounting exercise; it’s the foundation of financial clarity. Whether you produce 500 or 50,000 cases, not knowing your true costs means flying blind when it comes to pricing, planning, and profitability. ‍In our interactions with winery operations of all sizes, we’ve grown convinced that you can’t afford not to know your COGS. Even boutique operations are running at a disadvantage if they don’t know how much it costs to make each of the wines that they sell. ‍What is COGS? And why is it difficult? ‍In its simplest definition, COGS includes all of the cost outlay required to produce each and every SKU coming from your winery. That includes raw materials, labor, packaging, and overhead. ‍Seems fairly str

Azmera is excited to launch odoo for Wine; built on odoo's fully-featured ERP platform and tailored for wine, odoo for Wine comes integrated with your existing wine production and DTC/ecomm apps. odoo for Wine gives you central visibility and management of accounting, inventory- from bulk to glass, sales - distributor or DTC, purchasing, and more. If Quickbooks is holding you back, you need to get off Nav before it expires, or you're paying too much for Business Central or Netsuite, odoo for Wine could be your answer. Talk to us about what's ready to go with odoo for Wine: integrations to Innovint & Commerce7 order automation (no need for bill.com) subscriptions - an alternative to wine clubs multi-location inventory management multi-channel sku pricing & revenue tracking And what's in the works: integrations to BlendedTech and vintrace basic wineclub functionality for those who don't need, and don't want to pay for, all the bells and whis

Azmera unveils odoo for Wine: A Cost-Effective, Fully Integrated ERP Tailored for Winery Operations Napa, September 29th: Azmera today announced the launch of odoo for Wine, a powerful ERP solution designed to help wineries streamline operations, gain real-time visibility across finances, inventory, sales, and purchasing. Using the robust odoo platform and enhanced with wine-specific features, this enhanced wine-specific version offers wineries a modern, integrated alternative to outgrown accounting software and costly enterprise platforms. The full power of odoo for Wine comes from the pre-built integrations: by integrating with industry-leading wine-production apps like BlendedTech, Innovint, and Vintrace, as well as DTC platforms such as Commerce7, odoo for Wine provides a single source of truth for inventory—from additives to bulk and bottled wine - centralizing purchasing and unifying sales across wholesale and direct-to-consumer channels. odoo is a well-established and feat

Software shouldn’t get in your way. When software doesn’t fit, you spend hours on workarounds, waste mental energy worrying about how you record activity in the system or give up entirely and go back to spreadsheets. At Blended, we’re on a mission to build software that’s smart. If Blended can learn how you operate, it can personalize your unique experience. This personalization empowers you and your team, making the software a seamless part of your workflow. While this is a journey, today, we leverage a feature called Adaptive Defaults to bring that personalization.  Feature: Adaptive Defaults  Adaptive Defaults are a memory of sorts. As you use Blended, it tracks how you operate. For example, Blended may notice that you like to sample Brix, pH, TA, and Seed Color in the vineyard. After it sees you take that grouping of measurements, it automatically creates a custom workflow for those measurements within the vineyard. The next time you sample gr

The art of wine blending is where the skills of the finest winemakers truly shine. However, while taste is often the primary factor in determining blends, there’s also a broader picture to consider that can have significant business implications. Each blending component is often unique and may vary in variety, origin, chemistry, and production costs. Depending on the intended sales channel, some or all of these elements may be crucial to the commercial success of the finished wine.  After speaking with hundreds of winemakers, we’ve found that conducting blend trials is one of the most common workflows still performed with a spreadsheet. This holds true even if the winery uses winemaking software!  Feature: Trial Blend Trial Blends is just one feature designed to help winemaking teams make more informed decisions with less effort. Since Blended already knows everything about your wines, tell us what you’re blending and we’ll simulate the important ch

From a software perspective, Bottled inventory lives in no man’s land. It’s the place where operations software ends and point-of-sale and accounting systems begin. For many wineries, this mirrors the silos within functional teams as well. The winemaking team manages up to a point before it gets turned over to the tasting room staff and finance teams. Handoffs between people and systems are typical points of inefficiency. Put simply, they are areas where it's easy to drop the ball.  For wineries, that inefficiency takes the form of wasted time, inability to plan ahead, and lost revenue. Over the last few weeks, two conversations I had with the winery staff stand out in my mind. The first, with a winemaker, discussed how easy it was to lose track of inventory during busy seasons. Staff would move a few cases from the cellar to a tasting room and forget to record it. Inventories would get off from the official count quickly and they’d be forced to spend ex