VinPoint
Integrated wine management from Eclipse
VinPoint is a fully integrated end-to-end business management software solution that blends the specific functionality required by winemakers with the renowned capabilities of proven Microsoft technologies for the Australian and New Zealand wine markets. It provides a state-of-the-art solution for managing every aspect of a wine business from viticulture through winemaking, finance, inventory management and sales to customer relationship management.
Below: VinPoint solution map
Features
VinPoint offers more functionality across your whole wine-based organisation than any other software solution.
Below: VinPoint Sales budget overview screenshot
VinPoint functionality includes:
Product trace-ability
- Not just at the wine batch but at all levels, from source to origin and reverse by batch /lot number, with drill down.
Customer Relationship Management
- Contact management and classification
- Segmentation and profiling
- Campaign creation, follow up and pricing
- Opportunity tracking
- Interaction tracking.
Wine Club
- Ability to create and manage a wine clubs, including
- Membership management, pack runs and automatic order generation.
Pricing
- Sales price and discount matrixes, purchase pricing.
Indirect Sales
- Importing and reporting on distributor sales to end customer.
Wine Allocations
- Not just by customer but by groups as well.
Cellar management.
- Costing – track detailed standard costing of bulk wine
- Lab / QA analysis
- Viticulture.
Bottling
- Full MRP with drag and drop scheduling or simple bottling.
EDI
- Electronic data interchange including Scanpack.
- Inventory management and procurement around true Inventory rules.
- Statistical based, demand planning
Financials
- Liquidity (cash position reporting)
- Dimensional analysis.
- True multi-company and multi-currency accounting with intercompany and consolidations.
- Integrated fixed assets with multiple depreciation books
- Fully GST compliant with no GST monthly cut-off
- Date driven and no need to close off periods.
Cellar Door Point of Sale
- With intuitive touch screen enabled interface.
Add-ons
- For property management, asset maintenance etc if required.
Benefits
VinPoint was developed in response to the needs of the Australian and New Zealand wine industry with Microsoft Dynamics NAV chosen as the underlying application to power the solution.
VinPoint offers a flexible infrastructure that can be deployed as a single module or as a fully integrated suite of functionality to cover the entire wine making process from the vineyard to production, sales to cellar door. There is no other wine management solution on the market that offers the benefits of VinPoint:
| Easy to use – lower cost for training and maintaining |
- User friendly, MS Windows based interface for data entry, data viewing and reporting
- Search, find, filter and report on any field in the database
- Link attachments to anything - customers, suppliers etc. for easy access and viewing
- Access data from MS SharePoint
- Limited key strokes required to complete actions as all information is generally available from one screen.
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| Save time with integrated, fully Microsoft Desktop systems |
- Push any data to Word or Excel using user defined formats (using StyleSheets).
- Cut and paste data from VinPoint directly to Excel, Word, Outlook any data.
- Direct e-mail documents to PDF (quick and secure).
- Use template Word documents for mail merging.
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| Real-time access to information |
- User definable on screen reports (Financial, Sales and Purchasing) with Slice and dice, Drill anywhere, Push to Excel.
- Push (as well as cut and paste) data to Excel, so that is correctly formatted by cell.
- Extract Data from Excel, using Excel functions; Drag and Drop, Dynamic Graphs, Save an schedule, E-mail alerts, Publish to web.
- System reports cover all areas of VinPoint.
- Schedule reports to run and be emailed out internally or externally.
- MS SQL reporting services for KPI and exception reporting analytics.
- Access the data using a BI tool such as Microsoft Performance Point.
- Supports parallel reporting periods to allow growing year versus financial year analysis.
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| Strong development future |
- Built on Microsoft Dynamics NAV with strong product roadmap delivered by MIcrosoft with out of the box integration into Microsoft productivity tools.
- Proven implementation partner with Eclipse.
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Projects
Eclipse has implemented and supported VinPoint solutions since 2006.
These have included fully integrated solutions for wineries as well as stand alone projects for financial management only, winery management and complex wine distribution businesses.
At Eclipse we have a ‘customer for life’ philosophy, servicing and supporting our clients and continuously improving on their Microsoft based solutions.
For more information on our VinPoint projects please read our case studies.