Why We Built ‘Another’ Winery Solution?
Now and then there comes along the opportunity to rethink something completely. To start again. A clean sheet of paper! What does Great look like? The opportunity to take all your years of learnings & knowledge that we have collectively experienced, including the gaps and misgivings of previous application solutions and to completely rethink and build a solution from the ground up, that delivers to the needs of the winery.
Take a few guys, with decades of ERP application experience, a multitude of wine industry specific experiences, industry solution leadership and selling experience, and throw in an industry veteran winemaker for good measure! Then start the journey to develop the vision of what the Next Generation Winery Solution could look like.
Keep in mind the decades of learnings from the pain of owning and managing traditional ERP, and aged application solutions. Think about the challenges and technologies of traditional solutions, being careful not to repeat those same short comings. Consider how best to avoid or address those scenarios.
How often do you get the opportunity to think like that? . . . really! That is exactly what the NuVerge Product Development team was able to do with the Nextworld™, Nextbot™ no-code platform and their combined decades of wine industry applications & wine making knowledge and experience.
A unique opportunity to surprise and delight winery customers, with all the enterprise class application functionality that you would expect to drive your business, extended to include those areas that have never been addressed well. Adopting modern technologies including IoT, virtual whiteboards, drones, and block chain, thereby extending what we expect of core ERP functionality to address those ‘last mile’ items that traditionally would add to the complexity and effort associated with such cumbersome application models.
With that goal in mind, the team set a path forward and commenced the design and build of NuTrax for Wine in 2020 in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. From the moment you step into the system the dashboards are designed for the intended role and the tasks they will regularly perform. Dashboard cards including growing degree days and industry calculators, go far beyond traditional winery solutions. All presented and made available at your fingertips.
Vessel View, providing an up-to-date status on your tank farm (vessels) and tank movement visibility.
Those are just two examples of the functionality available within NuTrax for Wine. The solution includes farm operations, calculators, growing degree days, harvest, appellation hierarchy, block details, scale house, quality & inspections, vessel management, grower pricing, trial blend, operations search, audit reports and pre-built PLC integrations, to name just some of the available features.
Current roadmap items include, planning & forecasting, sparkling operations, specialty wine operations, block chain, chat bots, survey (gain/loss), speed updates and bottling and packaging extensions. With more to come!