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What's in it for me?

This is one of the most commonly asked questions in any situation and the answer depends on who you are.
Outlined below are how some of the different features of Vinsight may appeal to people with in your company depending on their role. What's in it for me? I am the:
Winemaker
Accountant
Vineyard Manager
Proprietor


What's in it for the winemaker.

Potentially the winemaker has the most to gain from using Vinsight on a day to day basis as the core of the system deals with the recording and reporting of winemaking information. Obviously the recording of operational information done by the winemakers has benefits for others in the organisation particularly the accountant.
For the winemaker there are several distinct advantages over paper, card or spreadsheet based systems that you may be employing currently.
  1. The same information that is entered once is available for many different reports quickly and easily without the need to rekey or rewrite information. By using different reports the same information could be used for looking at oak types used for your premium blends, bulk end of month stock take, a breakdown batch by batch of wine in the winery, or find which wines are still fermenting and which are doing MLF.
  2. All information that you have to store to do with your winery operation can be done on the same system. You have the same system for lab analysis, cellar operations, stock movements. There is no to and fro-ing between different spreadsheets and books to get all the information you need, in fact there are often reports that combine different types of information on the same page such as harvest data, analyses and cellar operations into one 'batch history' report.
  3. Historical information is at your finger tips. Bring up reports this year on how you made last years award winning wines, or at bottling time look back to see which blocks of fruit ended up making the top blend and which under performed in the winery.

What's in it for the accountant.

  1. The same information that is entered once is available for many different reports quickly and easily without the need to rekey or rewrite information. By using different reports the same information could be used for monthly stock reports, end of year financial reports, governmental or legal reporting...
  2. A lot of the donkey work of compiling information for use in your accounting practices effectively disappears because it is generated as a by-product of the everyday procedures others are doing in the company. For example everytime an order is taken and dispatched the stock levels are adjusted in the system so at the end of the month there is a theoretical stock level on a report that only needs to be ticked off. If there are any discrepancies there is an audit trail already generated step by step at dispatch time.
  3. While the system will not track overheads it does track direct costs associated with the wines and this gets you a step closer to knowing the real cost of a bottle of wine produced.
  4. The system does ordering, invoicing and statements as well as aging debts which means that the system will track production of wine from grapes into the winery to sale of the finished product.

What's in it for the vineyard manager.

At the moment Vinsight holds information about all of your company vineyards and blocks down to sub-block level where variety, clonal and rootstock information is determined.
The fruit maturity analyses can also be tracked for helping determine harvest decisions and Brix, pH and T.A. analyses are recorded along with other information and comments.
Harvest weights and analysis is recorded when the fruit is pick from the vineyard.

What's in it for the proprietor.

Depending on the size company that you have you may benefit directly from all of the features outlined above, but the benefits from a strict proprietary stand point could include the following.
  • The production side of your business is fully documented in the one system which you can capture a majority of the intellectual property that develops and is used in your business.
  • It may sound a bit crude but you will be able to create a basic 'recipe' for future employees to start from as well a reference for current staff back to 'how did I make that award winning wine last year?' etc. While you hope your talented wine growing team will remain with you forever, this is unlikely. Finding good replacement employees is always a big investment, but once you have them they at least have a starting point to work from, in what has already happened in their area of production in the past.
  • Even if you do a lot of the work yourself, there may well be a time that you hire someone to take over some of your responsibilities and in this case all the above ideas of recording what you have done in the past all still apply.
  • Making the production processes more transparent and easily accessed can only improve the quality of the process and hopefully you will see more efficient (and you never know maybe better quality) product as a result.