Complete IT System for Breweries
Breweries operate with complex production processes, a wide range of raw materials, batch production, seasonal fluctuations, and multiple sales channels simultaneously. At the same time, there are high requirements for traceability, quality control, inventory management, and financial oversight—both in production and in sales.
Today, many breweries rely on a combination of systems for production, inventory, webshop, retail, rentals, and accounting. This often leads to fragmented workflows, manual processes, and a lack of alignment between production, sales, and finance.
With Odoo, you get one unified, integrated system that supports the entire brewery operation—from purchasing raw materials and brewing production to sales, delivery, accounting, and reporting. This provides better visibility, fewer errors, and a stronger foundation for operating and scaling your brewery.
Odoo for Breweries
Odoo is an integrated business platform that brings together all core processes of a brewery’s daily operations in a single solution. The platform covers production, inventory, purchasing, sales, webshop, POS, rentals, CRM, and accounting—all built on a shared database.
This means data is updated in real time and shared across functions without manual handovers. For breweries, this creates a direct connection between raw materials, production, inventory levels, sales, and financials, ensuring the entire business works from the same up-to-date data.
In practice, this enables you to:
- manage brewing processes and batch production in a structured way
- ensure full traceability from raw materials to finished products
- optimize inventory, packaging, and deposits
- sell through multiple channels without duplicate work
- gain real-time insight into costs, profitability, and capacity
This unified approach is particularly important for breweries, where quality, efficiency, and financial visibility are critical.
The Impact of Disconnected Systems in a Brewery
When production, inventory, sales, and accounting are handled in separate systems, challenges often arise and grow as the brewery scales:
- Lack of alignment between production and inventory
It becomes difficult to see which raw materials were used in specific batches and what is actually in stock. - Manual workflows and errors
Data must be transferred manually between systems, increasing the risk of errors and wasted time. - Limited traceability and quality control
Documentation for batches, raw materials, and processes is difficult to consolidate. - Unclear financial visibility and profitability
Production costs, sales, and accounting are not automatically connected. - Limited insight across sales channels
Webshop, retail, events, and B2B sales operate in separate silos.
The result is reduced visibility, lower efficiency, and weaker decision-making.
How Odoo Supports Brewery Operations
Odoo acts as a single platform for brewery operations. All applications work together on one shared database, allowing data to be exchanged automatically and in real time between production, inventory, sales, finance, and reporting.
Here’s how the key functionalities support breweries in practice:
Odoo Manufacturing provides true production management—not just inventory consumption and recipes. You can define Bills of Materials for each beer type with precise raw materials, quantities, by-products, and variants.
Production is broken down into operations such as mashing, boiling, fermenting, and bottling, each with defined sequences, durations, and locations. With Shop Floor functionality, staff can follow digital work instructions and record process data in real time.
This enables:
- full batch and process control
- improved planning and capacity utilization
- complete production documentation
- accurate production cost calculations
Odoo Inventory provides full visibility into raw materials, finished goods, packaging, and deposits. The system supports lot and batch tracking, allowing you to trace ingredients from purchase to finished product.
Advanced packaging logic makes it easy to manage crates, bottles, and loose units without manual calculations. Inventory is updated automatically during production, sales, and deliveries.
With Odoo Purchasing, you can set up automated reordering rules for items such as malt, hops, and yeast. When stock levels reach a defined minimum, purchase orders are automatically generated and sent to suppliers.
This ensures stable production and reduces the risk of downtime.
Odoo enables both B2B and B2C sales within the same system. You can manage:
- quotations and recurring delivery agreements
- webshop sales with online payments
- physical store, bar, and taproom sales via POS
All sales draw from the same inventory and automatically update the financials.
With Odoo Rental, you can manage the rental of items such as taps, draft systems, and other equipment. The system tracks availability, rental periods, and invoicing in one unified overview.
Odoo supports booking and management of events such as brewery tours, tastings, and special events. Customers can book online, and events are planned directly in the system with assigned staff and capacity management.
Odoo CRM consolidates all customer inquiries, agreements, and history in one place. Leads from the webshop, contact forms, and emails are created automatically, making sales activities structured and transparent.
CRM is fully integrated with sales, production, and accounting.
Odoo supports quality checks and documentation across the production process. You can record deviations, quality measurements, and ensure full traceability—particularly important in food and beverage production.
With Odoo Dashboards, you gain real-time insights into:
- production and batch status
- inventory levels
- sales by channel
- costs and profitability
Reports are based on the same live data as the rest of the system and require no manual data consolidation.
Odoo enables email marketing based on your customer data. You can send campaigns about new beers, events, and seasonal products directly from the system.
In addition, you can set up automated workflows to:
- trigger production based on sales
- send confirmations and reminders
- automatically move orders and tasks through workflows
The Benefits of Running Your Entire Brewery in One System
When Odoo is used as a unified platform, you achieve:
A single data foundation from raw materials to finished products
Reduced manual work and fewer errors
Improved traceability and documentation
Full visibility into production, inventory, and financials
A scalable solution that grows with your brewery
Why choose itpilot as your Odoo partner
itpilot is a certified Odoo partner with experience in implementing complex business systems where production, inventory, sales, and finance must work seamlessly together.
We support you throughout the entire journey—from mapping your brewery’s processes to implementation, configuration, onboarding, and ongoing support. We ensure that Odoo is tailored to your reality, not the other way around.
With itpilot, you gain a partner who understands both the system and your business.
Get an Odoo Solution for Your Brewery
Do you want to bring production, inventory, sales, and accounting together in one integrated system and gain better visibility in your daily operations?
Get a no-obligation conversation about Odoo and learn how itpilot can help you get started.
