Vapour Brochure
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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
Operations Manager
How Vapour can help you
For a Distillery Operations Manager, efficiency and precision are key to running a successful operation. Vapour streamlines the entire distillery process, from raw materials to spirit maturation and bottling, ensuring seamless management at every stage.
One of Vapour’s greatest advantages is its ease of use. With an intuitive interface designed for distillers, not IT experts, managers can effortlessly oversee production activity, track cask inventories, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Real-time data is at your fingertips, eliminating the need for cumbersome spreadsheets or outdated manual records.
Task management is another area where Vapour excels. Assigning tasks to team members, whether it’s monitoring fermentation, spirit production, or scheduling bottling runs, is straightforward. Automated notifications and reminders ensure nothing is overlooked, improving accountability and operational efficiency. By digitising workflows, Vapour reduces the risk of errors while enhancing collaboration across the team.
High-quality data and insights are at the heart of Vapour’s value. With real-time tracking of maturation progress, yield analytics, and predictive bottling forecasts, managers can make informed decisions that optimise production and minimise waste. Detailed reporting provides transparency on spirit loss, warehouse utilisation and vacuity, and efficiency trends, allowing for continuous improvement.
By leveraging Vapour, distillery operations become smoother, more data-driven, and highly efficient. Whether managing a craft distillery or a large-scale production facility, Vapour empowers managers with the tools they need to maintain quality, improve productivity, and drive profitability.
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Key Vapour Features
Real-time Data & Task Management
With the ability to monitor every aspect of production, maturation, and bottling, managers gain immediate insights into inventory, progress, and performance. The platform allows for seamless task assignment, ensuring that teams remain on track and efficient. By automating manual processes like strength calculations, cask operations like re-racking and stock management, Vapour reduces errors and saves valuable time. Operations managers are free to make data-driven decisions, optimise workflows, and ensure smooth and efficient operations across the entire distillery, warehousing or bottling facility
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
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
Production Issue Management
We know Spirit Production can be disrupted by breakdowns and other issues. Vapour's issue recording allows you to record instances of downtime linked to a process, such as Mashing and define a reason and duration for the downtime, allowing issue resolution tracking and root cause analysis
Raw Materials Inventory
Let Vapour do the hard work for you. Automatic tracking of raw materials used during Production, such as grain, yeast & botanicals. Track dry goods and spirit inventory used during bottling and sales fulfilment of finished goods
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
Spirit Production Report
No more wrangling dozens of paper records or spreadsheets. Generate Spirit Production reports instantly to understand your distillery's production output at the touch of a button, covering both performance tracking and compliance reporting, such as HMRC W21 submissions
Fermentables Usage Reporting
Generate a report at your convenience breaking down all the fermentables (i.e. grain, malt, molases) across your production processes
3D Cased Goods Warehouse
The 3D warehouse feature provides a visual representation of finished/cased goods storage, making it easier to locate and manage stock by visualising product placement and available space
Tank Dips & Weekly Finals
With our in-built dip chart/strapping table tools, save your operators time and improve accuracy when dipping vessels for weekly spirit accounting
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
Sales Orders
Easy management of customer orders, efficient stock level control, and timely dispatch of finished products is enhanced by the First In, First Out (FIFO) feature, ensuring older stock is used first to maintain product quality and reduce waste
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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