The modern winery business has many moving parts and much to consider, to maintain efficiency, profitability and compliance!

This blog seeks to address the top 5 areas of challenge for winery business enterprises, while providing thoughts and insight on what ‘Good’ looks like. we seek to inspire thought leadership & strategic direction. We hope that you find this of value as you consider how best to address these areas within your winery business.

I run a winery! Why do I need to pay attention to the platform underpinning my winery solution?

It’s a great question. It would be easy to discount the importance of the platform supporting your winery application solution, but to do so may be at your peril. Overstated? Consider this! There are very real effort / cost savings and time to benefit outcomes for some platforms over others.

Now and then there comes along the opportunity to rethink something completely. To start again. A clean sheet of paper! What does Great look like? The opportunity to take all your years of learnings & knowledge that we have collectively experienced, including the gaps and misgivings of previous application solutions and to completely rethink and build a solution from the ground up, that delivers to the needs of the winery.

The Cost Reduction Business Driver:

Let’s get straight to it. Cost reduction is a massive business driver for most, if not all businesses. This, alongside the need to innovate, adopt change, and enable the business is why technology exists. But as technologies evolve and change, we quickly find ourselves left behind with legacy applications or full suites of last generation ERP that become an on going significant burden on business spend. These applications drain scarce funds needed for innovation and change enablement.

The first half of 2020 has seen the CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) industry sector, under-go what most would consider to be a once in a life-time event, due to COVID-19. Like many industries, 2020 started with most expecting to see some level of increased sales, however, this quickly turned into a survival of the fittest, with those able to innovate, adapt and change at pace – taking advantage of the situation.

The Business of Trusted Relationships

It’s true that in life we work on building meaningful trusted relationships that we can turn to for advice, direction or assistance with a task. In any situation whether that be within the family, the sports club or business, we all hold various relationships and backgrounds with people who play different trusted roles in our lives. Harvard Business Review says “Trust is the social glue that holds business relationships together” and then goes on to say that through trusted relationships,” Both sides achieve better economic outcomes in negotiations.”