40 BREWING & BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES BUSINESS www.spasoft.co.uk For more information visit: Working in the cloud Cloud computing offers multiple benefits to users and companies and SPAsoft’s ‘BMS cloud’ offers greater flexibility to work when and where you prefer. Other benefits include auto software updates, so no costs in maintaining your system, security as your data is held in a secure data centre and accessed by secure links and a complete disaster recovery solution. All this is Capexfree with no upgrade costs or issues. BMS cloud supports beer and cider production, whether in cans, bottles, BIB, cask, keg or bulk, UK or export with full duty compliance and traceability. Having pioneered cloud access for breweries and cider producers, SPAsoft BMS cloud is now integrated with Xero, the cloud accounting package. This seamlessly synchronises your two critical systems. Cashflow is critical, and with pubs closing, your sales team can now take effective frontline control of their customer’s credit balance. When invoices are flagged as paid in Xero, Telesales in BMS cloud shows the outstanding balance and the agreed credit limit. Managing this on a friendly, first name basis reduces the potential for losses and improves cashflow. Telesales enables the addition of comments from the customer, so they can easily be followed through. It also gives a complete account overview, with line item detail per invoice and casks on premises; ideal information when talking to a customer with a live-stock screen. Access for remote/part-time telesales staff can be restricted to their customer base with easy order entry. To ensure you are trading correctly, users can validate a customer’s AWRS status on the HMRC website with a record stored to prove due diligence. The ingredients module gives full traceability of ingredients from supplier batch number through to the final package. Should there be a problem, full traceability is available through the data. The ingredients module also monitors stock levels, giving a Low Stock Report to make replenishment easy. BMS cloud is there to support your brewing life, recording and reporting the information you need to help run a profitable business. If you haven’t thought about moving your business systems to the cloud, contact SPAsoft and ask the questions and see what benefits you could gain. Showcase IT & BUSINESS SYSTEMS Kegstar has developed further technology to give customers real time visibility of every keg, cask, location and cost on a smart device. All Kegstar customers can now use the Mystar *service enabling you to track, trace and reduce costs on all your Kegstar containers. Logging on to your very own Mystar dashboard will provide you with the greater real time activity and cost visibility of working with Kegstar. It also offers you online billing and statement accessibility, interrogation and reconciliation. Plus, you can replace your forecasts and orders directly through the Mystar portal. All of this is of course supported by all the regular benefits of working with Kegstar. Get in touch with Kegstar to get switched on and start playing. (*Terms and conditions apply.) Kegstar develops ‘smart’ technology www.kegnology.co.uk For more information visit: 40_Layout 1 12/11/2017 18:35 Page 1