Features
DRAMS offers cutting-edge solutions for bulk spirit and barrel management. With our specialised, scalable, and seamlessly integrated solutions, you’ll achieve complete control and visibility over your maturing inventory.
What is DRAMS?
Your Comprehensive Solution for Spirit Inventory Management
With over 50 years experience working with producers of Scotch, Bourbon, Canadian & Irish Whisk(e)y, Tequila, Rum and Cognac, we understand the complexities and nuances of managing maturing spirit inventories. Our platform is meticulously designed to streamline and enhance every aspect of spirit inventory management, from bulk spirit and barrel inventory to warehouse optimisation and end-product/blend recipe management.
With DRAMS, you gain access to a robust core system enriched by a suite of optional add-on modules, each offering specialised functionality to meet the unique demands of your business. Dive into the details of our core features and discover how our tailored modules can elevate your inventory management process.
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DRAMS Features
DRAMS offers solutions for streamlining the various processes associated with the management of bulk stocks.
Bulk Inventory Management
DRAMS is a comprehensive system tailored for managing bulk spirit inventory from initial receipt to final despatch. It supports recording and tracking spirit movements between vessels, calculates and records losses or gains, and ensures traceability. DRAMS also automates the generation of despatch documentation, facilitates ownership transfers, and adjusts pricing. This system streamlines operations by reducing manual paperwork and enhancing accuracy in inventory management.
Barrel Inventory Management
The DRAMS system meticulously manages barrel inventory by maintaining a detailed main inventory file for each barrel, with unique IDs and grouped into parcels. It tracks age, type, volume, value, and ownership, offering powerful search capabilities. DRAMS supports compliance with legal age requirements via the Age of Youngest Spirit (AYS) calculation and accurately estimates maturation losses. Additionally, it records exact barrel locations and simplifies transaction processing through inventory allocations.
Warehouse Management
The DRAMS system provides comprehensive management for multi-location, multi-warehouse environments, enabling users to track every barrel’s position and maintain detailed warehouse specifications. It enhances inventory visibility with graphical and drill-down reports, calculates warehouse utilisation and vacuity, and reconciles physical inventory counts with system records. Furthermore, DRAMS supports financial aspects by facilitating warehouse rent calculations and invoicing, significantly streamlining operations and improving data accuracy.
Blending/End-Product Recipe Management
DRAMS facilitates precise end-product formulation through customisable recipe templates, permitting users to define ingredient proportions and selection criteria such as age, type, and location. The system supports inventory selection for blending or bottling, adjusts for inventory constraints, and manages recipe variations with temporal controls. It generates efficient pick lists or work orders for warehouse operations and provides comprehensive audit reports and cost analysis for each product, enhancing both production planning and quality control.
Regulatory Compliance
DRAMS offers robust regulatory compliance support across different regions by maintaining comprehensive records of all spirit inventory details and movements.
It provides standardised, auto-populatable reporting templates for key regulatory bodies such as HMRC and TTB, facilitating the completion of necessary documentation like the W Return, TTB forms, and CRT number tracking for tequila producers. This ensures efficient management of customs and audit requirements, streamlining the compliance process for spirit producers.
Reporting
The DRAMS solution offers over 100 customisable reports to support diverse operational and regulatory needs in spirit inventory management. Users can generate inventory, customer, customs, transaction, operational reports, and invoices in various formats, including summary, detailed, and templated. Additionally, DRAMS integrates with a Business Intelligence module, enhancing reporting capabilities with advanced analytics and data export options for streamlined decision-making and compliance.
Finance
DRAMS provides robust financial management capabilities tailored for bulk spirit and barrel inventory management. It supports various costing models and facilitates price adjustments to ensure accurate inventory valuation. The system enhances financial data security through the use of price codes and role-based settings, and integrates seamlessly with existing ERP systems. It also offers detailed recipe audit and production cost reports, helping maintain both product quality and cost-effectiveness. Furthermore, DRAMS streamlines the financial management process by allowing users to easily create detailed invoices for a range of services including filling, sales, blending charges, wood rental, handling charges, warehouse movements, vat/tanker transfers, transfer of ownership, dispatches, as well as barrel and vat/tanker regauging.
Our Modules
Expand beyond the functionality of the core product and into other key operational areas with the DRAMS range of modules.
Long Term Planning
DRAMS Scan
Business Intelligence
Wood Management
DRAMS Print
DRAMS Bottled
EMCS
DRAMS Flow
Our Services
DRAMS ERP Integration
DRAMS has a proven track record of working with ERP solutions, such as SAP, IFS Applications, and JD Edwards, to ensure a seamless integration.
Through a custom interface between DRAMS and an existing ERP system, users can ensure that a high-level view of spirit inventory is maintained within the ERP while the additional details required to complete operational tasks are recorded in DRAMS.
This integration provides multiple layers of visibility, meaning that the wider business functions still retain access to crucial information but that the ongoing management of daily distillery operations is delivered within a system which is designed around the unique processes involved.
DRAMS is 100% focused on bulk stocks and distillery management. We understand that the movement and maturation of spirit is a unique process that demands a truly dedicated software solution. That’s why we first created DRAMS over 50 years ago – and we’ve been improving and expanding it ever since.
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