Vapour Brochure
Learn more about the features, benefits and users of Vapour by downloading our brochure.
What is Vapour?
The Vapour SaaS platform delivers solutions and services across production, maturation, and finished goods Spirit Producers, Warehouse Operators, Cask Managers, and Bottlers.
Explore Vapour’s unique features and see how your role can benefit from digitising operations end-to-end, from crop to cask to case
Warehouse Manager
How Vapour can help you
We know the challenges faced by Cask Warehouse Managers. We first built Vapour alongside warehousing teams to digitise the daily operations of a busy warehouse, and our Maturation Module remains the core of the platform today.
Managing your inventory of empty and filled casks, coordinating cask movements, planning your team’s work around the tasks and daily duties the need to perform, whilst also keeping records of all of this, and everything else… and maintaining highly accurate records for customs and excise movements. A day in the life of a Warehouse Manager is far from boring!
This is where Vapour comes in. All your operations from the moment casks or spirit arrives in your warehouse are tracked and logged, empowering you to generate compliance and inventory reports at the touch of a button.
Optimise your workforce efforts by assigning tasks to your team, such as regauges, samples, re-racking, internal cask movements, filling, disgorging, and much more, sent directly to your warehouse team’s mobile devices.
Manage your customers and partners and even provide them with their own unique login to view and request services on their inventory in your facility.
Easily monetise your facility with highly flexible cask storage and service costs/fees with granular control over customer-specific, zone-specific, and cask-specific fee tiers. Even have the ability to log custom costs against a customer or a specific cask – for example, coopering costs.
Save time and improve the operational accuracy of your filling and disgorging with OT hardware integrations such as our CASKLOG™ interface.
Vapour is your operational companion to digitise your warehouse and cask management. Step away from spreadsheets or desktop software and embrace the power of a modern, cloud-based solution.
Discover the opportunities Vapour can provide you in your role. Please get in touch if you have any questions about how Vapour can help you.
Key Vapour Features
Service & Storage Monetisation
Vapour simplifies cask storage and service cost tracking, giving warehouse managers full control over pricing structures. With flexible billing automation, you can set rates based on cask type, storage zone, or service performed - eliminating manual calculations. The system ensures accurate, real-time cost allocation, making invoicing seamless and reducing administrative workload. Generate automated billing reports and integrate with financial systems via Vapour’s API portal to keep payments and records up to date. By reducing errors, saving time, and ensuring full transparency, Vapour helps warehouses maximise efficiency while maintaining complete financial oversight of cask storage and maturation services
Automation & Control System Integration
Vapour seamlessly integrates with control systems, enabling real-time data exchange between both production and maturation activities. By connecting with systems that manage equipment, automation, and sensors, Vapour captures critical data such as temperatures, flow rates, filling levels, and cask filling & disgorging. In production, this can include mashing, fermentation, and distillation, while in maturation, it tracks the filling and tank levels of casks as well as other environmental factors. This integration eliminates manual data entry, ensuring consistency and accuracy throughout the process. Get in touch to discover the potential to integrate control systems, and see how Vapour can improve operational efficiency, enhance product quality, and support better decision-making across production and maturation.
Barcode Scanning
Track your maturing stock inventory and perform tasks across the Vapour platform with barcode generation and scanning built-in
Traceability
Unrivalled visibility, traceability and accessibility. For distillers, for cask managers, for bottlers, for investors. Every action in Vapour has a detailed audit trail to support your compliance or quality management needs
Task Management
Plan your team's work with smart task management - allocate cask operations such as regauging, sampling, re-racking, filling & disgorging directly to your team member's handheld device
Duty Reporting
Automatic calculation of duty payments due on samples and movement of stock out of bonded areas
Cask Inventory Reporting
Flexible inventory reporting by warehouse location, zone, cask type, customer
Exportable to many formats, including PDF and Excel, you can even check historic inventory to interrogate stock movements!
Cask Location Tracking
Vapour's unique data model allows every cask movement to be recorded and displayed as part of the cask record, allowing greater insights on loss management, vacuity planning and operations
Maturation Issue Management
Vapour's in-built intelligence means key issues are flagged automatically, such as drops in LPA or bulk liquid. You can also define your own issue types
Your team are enabled to report issues by merely scanning a cask and flagging issues for investigation
Follow the Cask
Vapour's philosophy from day one has been to follow the cask. Every cask in Vapour is treated as an asset, and liquid is added and moved between casks as part of the operations undertaken on the platform
A rich picture of both the spirit and cask history is built up, allowing value to be added to downstream operations such as blending and bottling
Cask Tags
Want to add a bit more detail to your cask record or add something not in the standard cask record? Our highly flexible cask tag is both highly functional and descriptive
Use it to describe the wood, details of the supplier, which forest it came from, or allocate it to a grouping for blending and filling later. The possibilities are endlessly flexible
Offline Scanning
WiFi or mobile data coverage can sometimes prove challenging in the depths of a traditional dunnage warehouse, or any other facility for that matter! To tackle this, we've created offline scanning functionality to be able to scan cask movements without the need for a constant Internet connection
Responsive Web App
Vapour runs on any modern Internet-connected device with a web browser
Finance Integrations
Out-of-the-box connectivity with leading finance platforms such as Xero, Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, Sage, plus many, many more
Spirit Tagging
Intelligently add tags to your spirit as you produce it for retrieval later in your spirit's life. Add details of the field your barley came from or comment on the weather.
The tags you add will live along the way as your spirit makes its journey to a warehouse or a bottle. You're a simple search or click away from finding this and any similar records with the same tag
Calculators
Use our in-line calculators to help you focus on the task at hand, rather than be distracted to perform calculations from books or lookup charts
Reductions
Perform alcohol strength reductions with your Vapour-enabled device in your hand, allowing you to accurately calculate the required water in real-time, eliminating human error and the need for handwritten calculations
Customer Management
Streamline contract distilling, maturation services for cask owners, and bottling for both B2B and B2C customers, ensuring seamless communication, accurate tracking, and tailored service at every stage
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