Bulk Spirit and Barrel Inventory Management Solutions.

Software solutions designed to meet the specific requirements of distillers, barrel warehouse keepers, and cask brokers.

Supporting our customers to optimise the management of their maturing spirit inventory to meet current and future demand.

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Who We Are

Leading Experts in Maturing Spirit Management

DRAMS is the longest established software provider dedicated to the management of maturing spirit inventory. We provide:

Specialised functionality
Strategic partnerships
Deep domain expertise
Seamless integrations
Fully scalable solutions

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What is DRAMS?

Specialised Technology for Managing a Maturing Spirit Inventory

DRAMS functionality infographic, showing both core functionality and 8 add-on modules DRAMS is a comprehensive spirit inventory management platform, specifically designed to manage the movement and maturation of bulk stocks in a distillery and warehousing environment. The solution provides tools to efficiently manage bulk spirit and barrel inventory, warehouse operations, and end-product recipes and comes with an extensive range of reports, including those required for customs and regulatory compliance.

Our selection of add-on-modules further enhance the capability of the platform in key areas of the inventory management process including forward planning, empty wood management, barrel scanning and advanced analytics.

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Core DRAMS

Revolutionise your Inventory Management with DRAMS

DRAMS offers a fully scalable solution, delivering the same high performance regardless of the number of barrels held in inventory.

Bulk Spirit Management:

Efficiently handle spirit influx from distillation or external sources. Manage vat and tank movement seamlessly. Facilitate spirits transfers between owners and different locations with precision.

Barrel Inventory Management:

Experience the power of scalability – cater to barrel inventories of any size without performance hitches. Work at batch or individual barrel levels, accessing granular details like owner, location, value, and volume. Gain insightful views into barrel positions.

Warehouse Management:

Embrace flexibility across diverse warehouse types. Dive into comprehensive barrel position data. Visualise barrel locations using graphical warehouse maps. Analyse current and future warehouse space, even calculating vacuity. Streamline rent calculation and storage invoices for 3rd party inventory.

Finished Product Recipe Management:

Effortlessly record and manage blend/finished product recipes. Allocate inventory for dumping based on these recipes. The system predicts expected yields from barrels earmarked for dumping.

Regulatory Compliance:

Meet regulatory demands with ease. Generate HMRC W Return, TTB Production and Processing Report, and TTB Storage Report. Access detailed operation logs and transaction records for a comprehensive compliance trail for other customs bodies.

Finance:

Track inventory value with diverse costing models. Streamline sales invoices. Seamlessly integrate with ERP or accounting systems, ensuring financial harmony.

Reporting:

Unleash data insights with a range of standard reports, flexible queries, and data extracts. Export data to Excel for in-depth analysis. Customise reports using dynamic report writing functionality, catering to unique insights and needs.

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DRAMS Modules

Designed for Flexibility, Tailored to Meet your Needs

Our modular application allows our customers to tailor the solution to their requirements, adding functionality as requirements change.

Long-Term Planning

The DRAMS Long-Term Planning (LTP) module combines detailed spirit inventory data, finished product recipes (bill of materials), and demand forecasts, to provide valuable insights into inventory and production requirements over any planning horizon. The solution offers a nuanced view of a distillery’s ability to meet future demand, identifying inventory shortfalls; generating monthly distillation, cask filling, and cask dumping plans; and highlighting issues with cost of production and warehouse capacity as the inventory position evolves.

DRAMS LTP informs critical CAPEX decisions around warehouse construction, expansion of production capacity, and barrel purchasing, while also identifying revenue generation opportunities in the form of surplus stock.

Business Intelligence

The DRAMS Business Intelligence (BI) Module is an advanced report writing and dashboarding tool that uses live DRAMS data to provide managers and operational staff with real-time actionable insights into distillery operations. Fully integrated with the core DRAMS product and supplied with a suite of ready-made distillery reports and dashboards, DRAMS BI offers an accelerated implementation timeline compared to generic reporting tools.

The live dashboards help supervisors to identify and address operational issues before they impact on the business, while detailed inventory analysis and longer-term trend reporting can be used by managers to monitor plant utilisation, and to identify inventory issues which may affect spirit supply, months or even years in the future.

Wood Management

The DRAMS Wood Management module allows every individual barrel to be tracked over its entire lifecycle from purchase, shipment, and initial receipt into inventory, through multiple cycles of filling and dumping.

The integrated cooperage application allows barrel repairs and re-charring operations to be captured, while our DRAMS Scan barrel scanning solution can be used to record the exact location of empty barrels, and to validate the use of barrels in a filling operation based on cask type and number of fills.

Improved tracking and visibility of empty wood inventory helps eliminate wastage, boosts operational efficiency, and supports effective implementation of wood filling plans – ultimately ensuring end product quality and consistency.

DRAMS Scan

The DRAMS Scan module is a comprehensive barrel scanning solution designed to streamline the capture and validation of cask movements between locations and within warehouses.

The system provides greater visibility and control over cask operations while improving the accuracy of cask position data, leading to better informed operational decision making and improved warehouse efficiency.

The DRAMS Scan solution operates on wireless handheld scanner devices and integrates seamlessly with the core DRAMS application, making it an essential tool for ensuring data accuracy and process optimisation in spirit warehouse environments.

DRAMS Print

The DRAMS Print barcode labelling solution allows cask and warehouse location labels to be printed directly from the DRAMS system, eliminating the issues with invalid or inconsistent labelling that have blighted many barcoding implementations within the maturing spirits industry. Label print requests are directly validated against warehouse locations and inventory held within the DRAMS database, enforcing consistent label formats and accuracy of barcode data.

Meanwhile, user access restrictions, cask number tracking, clear marking of reprint labels, and full audit reporting, all combine to eliminate the potential for duplicate labels.

DRAMS Bottled

The DRAMS Bottled module is a comprehensive management solution for the manufacturing and tracking of cased goods. The system monitors the inventory of materials used in case production, tracking material orders and consuming materials in the bottling process based on case specifications, automatically allowing for expected wastage. Finished cases can be tracked across multiple locations and warehouses.

EMCS

The DRAMS EMCS module integrates with the Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS), simplifying the process of moving excise goods in duty suspension within the European Union (EU). Despatch data is uploaded from DRAMS to the control system at the touch of a button, with the Administrative Reference Code (ARC) received by return for automatic inclusion on DRAMS despatch documentation.

DRAMS Flow

The DRAMS Flow module enables real-time integration between barrel filling systems and the DRAMS solution, allowing filling details such as spirit type and source vat to be validated before filling commences, and facilitating the immediate transfer of barrel details to DRAMS during the filling process.

This ensures that DRAMS inventory is updated in real-time, giving full visibility of progress through the filling operation, and improving operational efficiency by eliminating the need for manual data entry.

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Who We Work With

DRAMS is the chosen software partner for organisations managing maturing spirit inventories, including Scotch Whisky, Bourbon, Canadian & Irish Whisk(e)y, Tequila, Rum and Cognac.

Groups

Bring consistency to a diverse spirit portfolio

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Brokers

Effectively manage an inventory of high value barrel assets

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Small Distillers

Establish control with efficient spirit inventory management and data-driven insights

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Growing Distillers

Support growth with tailored solutions to enhance your evolving journey.

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Large Distillers

Operate with scale and excellence using DRAMS’ reliability and expertise.

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Testimonials

What our
clients say…

Whether your distillery is large or small, near or far, one thing remains the same: our clients love our software and support. But don’t take our word for it; here’s what they have to say…

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Rab Sorman

I know where every spirit is, how it’s maturing, and how it fits into the bigger picture… this plays a crucial role in future blends

Whisky Stocks and Blending Manager, Glenmorangie

Alistair Paton

It does make such a difference talking to knowledgeable people who have years of experience dealing with our specialised industry and who are always prepared to go the extra mile.

Project Manager, The Tomatin Distillery Co.

Ron Welsh

DRAMS is a great inventory management system. It allows me to quickly analyse the stocks we have and what we can use it for; and allows us to easily allocate to future blends.

Master Blender and Strategic Inventory Manager, Beam Suntory

Christine Leggat

Every piece of spirit that moves within the business is captured within DRAMS.

Stock Controller, Inver House Distillers

John Kerr

The knowledge of DRAMS’ consultants – both of their product and of bulk stock processing as a whole – gave us a solid platform to work from.

Bulk Planner, John Dewar & Sons

Ron Welsh

You need to know exactly what you have and when it becomes of age to put into bottle. For this you require granularity of month by month data.

Master Blender and Strategic Inventory Manager, Beam Suntory

David Jordan

For any warehouse, any floor, rick and level, I can see what stock is there and how much space I have at the push of a button.

Maturing Inventory Manager, Wild Turkey

Brochures

DRAMS Business Intelligence Product Guide

For a more information into how you could boost operational efficiency and discover growth opportunities with DRAMS BI, download our comprehensive product guide.

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Wood Management: Enhancing Maturation and Operational Efficiency

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