InnoVint, the leader in real-time mobile production software, is thrilled to announce a new and exciting feature that grants custom crush clients and other winery stakeholders controlled access to InnoVint. 

The platform tracks every inventory item specific to it's owner(s) and users are assigned an access level: Admin, Team Member, or Read-Only. Clients can access their inventory anytime, anywhere, can assign digital work orders, and can run reports and compliance exports without host winery interaction. Being a custom crush provider has never been easier!

We'd love to share our successful case studies with you. Please contact info@innovint.us to learn more about everything InnoVint has to offer.

Do you spend far more time at your desk than you'd like managing your spreadsheets and database? What if there was software that eliminated this work for you, where all your winemaking data was recorded on the spot by your team into a shared cloud-based mobile platform?

Check out InnoVint. Your modern winemaking platform with a human touch. Many of your peers are already on board and loving it.

Now's the time to get into gear! Here's why:

• It's quick to learn and easy to use. It can take less than a day to be up and running. We offer inventory import services if needed.
• Our clients love us. In our October 2016 survey, 100% of respondents said that InnoVint meets their needs Extremely Well or Very Well, and 100% rate the value Excellent or Above Average for the money. 
• We cater to you. Large and complex or boutique and straightforward, we've got you covered. Our subscription packages scale accordingly with no secret fees or unexpected add-ons.
• Reporting is a breeze. Whether internal operations require consistent reporting or you're executing your TTB 5120.17 report, we deliver everything you need to conduct your business effectively and efficiently.
• Features galore. Vineyard tracking, activity calendars, mobile notifications, dry good tracking and additive calculations, custom crush permissions... and more!

Ready for a customized demo, proposal, or free trial? Contact us right now!
Email info@innovint.us or call 707-418-0119, Ext 1. We'll be in touch shortly.

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Winemakers, viticulturists, cellar masters and compliance officers can now say goodbye to cumbersome paper tracking and redundant data entry thanks to a revolutionary new software management tool offered by InnoVint, one of the wine industry’s top software development companies operating today.

Founded by UC Davis trained and experienced winemaker Ashley DuBois Leonard, the InnoVint Platform is the first mobile-focused management system that allows for real-time data entry as well as real-time data access anytime, anywhere.

“It’s a cloud-based, mobile-driven management tool that allows you to capture and relay data in real time,” confirms Ashley DuBois Leonard, InnoVint Founder and CEO. “This is a built from scratch, modern platform that solves all the issues I had as a winemaker and general manager struggling to have reliable, current information at my fingertips. It’s an all-inclusive tool from bud break to bottle, developed specifically by and for winemakers to address, track and report every single aspect of the winemaking process.”

The InnoVint platform features single point data entry simultaneously available to team members across multiple locations.

Highlights of the system include:

• Superior Data and Activity Visualization
• Calendars, Harvest Planning and Real-Time Notifications
• Robust Vineyard, Cellar, and Financial Tracking
• Digital Work Orders and Mobile Data Entry
• FDA and TTB Compliance 
• Flexible Workflow with Full Team Engagement

The system also offers QR Code Vessel Tracking; Additive Batch Tracking & an Addition Calculator; ETS Laboratories Integration; and an Owner Based Permission System for custom crush clients and alternating proprietors.

“The accounting aspect of this software is of huge interest to our clients,” reports DuBois Leonard. “InnoVint tracks all direct and overhead costs associated with production.” The system will proportionally attribute each of the expenses involved in a bulk wine lot so our customers know exactly how much it much it costs them to produce a bottle of wine.”

Leonard DuBois notes that the InnoVint system is appropriate for all levels of winemaking. Boutique to mid-size wineries can use it to streamline operations, large wineries can employ the software to minimize risk and maximize profits, and custom crush clients are able to track and access all data on their specific wines by bond or by location at any time.

“Customers are very happy with our product and service,” DuBois Leonard points out. “We have an excellent to world class customer loyalty rating, according to the global Net Promoter Score (NPS) standards.

“It comes from building in more intelligence and quality management so that winemakers can better control and focus on the granularity of the production process,” Dubois Leonard explains. “InnoVint supplies a turnkey solution for everyone at the winery that works with or relies on production data.”

For more information and a product demonstration, go to https://www.innovint.us.

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Hey, we get it. You're dying to transition from the harvest hustle to the holiday slowdown, but first, the office work. The realization may hit hard - what the heck happened during crush?? Management is bugging you for detailed records and you're underwater in a sea of paper...

You're not alone in this struggle. And you're in luck. Join the hundreds of wineries who've already discovered there's a solution to 4 common post-harvest anxieties.

Meet InnoVint, the leader in wine production management software.

For a demo contact us at jarred@innovint.us or call 707-418-0119, Ext 1. 

You can also get a taste of our software by visiting our booth at the upcoming conferences:

• January 29-31: Unified Wine & Grape Symposium. Sacramento, CA.
• February 12-13: Oregon Wine Symposium, Portland, OR.
• February 11-14: Washington Winegrowers Convention, Kennewick, WA
• February 21-23: Texas Wines Annual Conference , San Marcos, TX
• March 19-21: Eastern Winery Expo, Syracuse, NY
• July 22-25: WineTech 2019, Adelaide, Australia

Let's kick your operations into high gear! We look forward to meeting you.

The Team at InnoVint

InnoVint’s new inventory management product, SUPPLY, is now available to all wineries, bringing real-time visibility, compliance confidence, and operational clarity to case goods management.

Wineries Deserve Better Than Spreadsheets

Inventory shouldn’t be a guessing game. But for many wineries, that’s exactly what it is.

There is no reliable, shared, real-time view. Spreadsheets live in different places and are populated by teams chasing down numbers over email, text, or cellar conversations. Tracking bonded vs. taxpaid inventory is messy. Manual logs and delayed data make it easy to miss a movement, overpay taxes, or introduce errors into TTB filings.

At the end of the day, no one has a clear answer to the most important question: “What do we actually have available to sell?”

InnoVint SUPPLY replaces all of that with one intuitive system designed specifically for wineries. It brings clarity, control, and confidence to inventory management.

What InnoVint SUPPLY Delivers

SUPPLY is a centralized, real-time inventory management system built specifically for the complexities of the wine industry. It gives wineries the visibility, control, and confidence they need to manage case goods with precision, while bringing production, finance, and sales into alignment.

Here’s how SUPPLY has already helped wineries manage their inventory more efficiently:

A Single Source of Truth with Self-Serve Visibility:

Track bonded and taxpaid inventory across all locations in one system. SUPPLY eliminates back-and-forth communication by giving every team access to real-time inventory data.

“Before SUPPLY, I’d get texts from the owners—sometimes late at night—asking about inventory. Now they just log in and check it themselves. It’s saved me a ton of time and eliminated all the back-and-forth. It’s been a big win for how we operate as a team.”

 David Harris, Assistant Winemaker, Bergman Family Vineyards

Stress-Free Compliance:

Every inventory movement is tracked automatically, providing the data needed to file your TTB reports and accurately pay excise taxes. Wineries can reduce the risk of costly errors and cut hours off their compliance workload.

“We were unknowingly paying double taxes on everything. SUPPLY is going to save us thousands of dollars a year.”

 Tim Drake, Winemaker, Michael Ros Winery

Accurate, Real-Time Data:

Automatically keep your inventory up to date as goods are moved or sold. Prevent stockouts, oversupply, and missed sales with accurate inventory visibility. Wineries always know what’s available, where it’s stored, and when to restock.

“Before, we’d oversell inventory or misallocate wine club shipments because we were relying on outdated Excel sheets. SUPPLY fixed that. Now everyone can see what’s actually available.”

Easy for Everyone to Use:

InnoVint SUPPLY is simple by design. Whether you’re in production, sales, or the tasting room, team members can log in, get what they need, and get back to work without needing a training manual.

“Everyone from our winemaker to our event lead uses SUPPLY. It’s intuitive, and even our least tech-savvy team members picked it up right away.”

 Melissa Aellen, Director of Winery Operations, Linganore Winecellars

Keep Inventory and DTC Sales in Sync Automatically:

SUPPLY connects directly to your DTC sales workflows, ensuring accurate inventory across all channels. For Commerce7 customers, there is a real-time, two-way integration between the systems. Orders fulfilled in Commerce7 instantly deplete SUPPLY inventory, and restocks update in Commerce7 without manual entry. Tasting room staff see accurate inventory right where they work. No extra logins, no double entry, no errors.

“The integration with Commerce7 is seamless and incredibly instrumental in allowing us to make important sales decisions.”

 Melissa Aellen, Director of Winery Operations, Linganore Winecellars

Real-Time, Two-Way Integration with Commerce7:

For Commerce7 customers, there is a real-time, two-way integration between the systems. Orders fulfilled in Commerce7 instantly deplete SUPPLY inventory, and restocks update in Commerce7 without manual entry. Tasting room staff see accurate inventory right where they work. No extra logins, no double entry, no errors.

Complete Your Winery’s Operating System

SUPPLY is the newest addition to InnoVint’s all-in-one platform for winery operations. From the vineyard to the bottle to the balance sheet, InnoVint is built to support the full lifecycle of your wine business:

• GROW – Track and manage vineyard activities
• MAKE – Run production from crush through bottling
• SUPPLY – Manage finished goods inventory with confidence
• FINANCE – Understand costs, margins, and performance (down to the SKU level)

With everything connected in one system, your team works faster, your data is more accurate, and your winery runs smoother.

Let’s Get Started: Try SUPPLY Today

SUPPLY is now available to all InnoVint customers and new wineries looking for a better way to run their business. See it for yourself at https://www.innovint.us/product/case-goods-inventory-management/ 

The Missing Link Between Production and Sales

When you’re involved with wine inventory and sales, a few nagging questions can keep you up at night… "Did we get our excise tax payment right this month?" or "Was that library wine really still available?" or "Did we ship enough wine to our warehouse for wine club processing?" These are tough questions to answer if your case goods inventory isn’t reliable.

It's not uncommon for a few cases of wine to fall through the cracks. In a warehouse with dozens of SKUs, dark corners can hide inventory from the team—leading to missed sales, overpaid taxes, or incorrect wine club shipments when outdated spreadsheets are the only source of truth.

“What's unique about the wine industry is the diversity of its sales channels,” explains Ashley Leonard, CEO and Co-Founder of InnoVint. "You're selling direct to the consumer a few different ways, occasionally direct to trade, and often using a network of distributors. That complexity makes it hard to rely on spreadsheets for accurate case counts.”

A Modern Inventory System Built for the Way Wineries Operate

For over a decade, InnoVint’s cloud-based platform has helped wineries implement transparent and efficient business management systems. “We are a technology company,” Leonard says, “and in addition to our software, we deliver lots of education to help wineries run better businesses.” 

SUPPLY is InnoVint's new case goods inventory solution, designed to give every team - production, sales, finance, and compliance - instant visibility into inventory across all locations: winery, tasting rooms, storage warehouses, and fulfillment centers. 

It joins other InnoVint products, including GROW (vineyard), MAKE (production), and FINANCE (costing), to complete InnoVint’s all-in-one winery operations platform.

“SUPPLY is the gateway that links back-of-house operations to the sales operations,” says Leonard. “It answers the critical question, ‘What do we have that is available to sell today?’”

InnoVint SUPPLY provides real-time case goods tracking from bottling to depletion, including on-order inventory and fulfillment status. It also integrates directly with order management systems like Commerce7, syncing depletion and restocking data automatically to prevent double-entry or data lag.

Real Results: Time Saved, Accuracy Gained

With InnoVint’s full suite of products, every team member has real-time access to bulk and finished case goods inventory, which ensures taxes are paid accurately and eliminates back-and-forth communications about availability. 

“Before SUPPLY, I'd get texts from the owners, sometimes late at night, asking about inventory,” says David Harris, Assistant Winemaker at Bergman Family Vineyards. “Now they check themselves. Everyone's happy because they're getting the information faster.”

Larry Harris, the owner of Bayernmoor Cellars, agrees, ‘Inventory management used to take 10 hours a month. With SUPPLY, it's down to 1.’  

“If you're not managing case goods inventory well, you can get in hot water fast. One customer told us SUPPLY illustrated they were previously paying double tax on everything!” says Leonard.

“SUPPLY is an easy system to use for managing inventory across multiple locations, bonds, and tax statuses,” says Melissa Aellen, Director of Winery Operations at Linganore Wine Cellars. “Transferring, depleting, and adding inventory is simple enough that everyone can help ensure our inventory is always accurate.”

Improve Sales Velocity with Real-Time Inventory For Everyone

Whether you’re prepping for wine club allocations, fulfilling large distributor orders, or answering a customer email in the tasting room, having accurate inventory isn’t just nice to have. It’s critical to keeping your business moving.

“When you have reliable inventory data, you empower every team to sell more confidently,” says Leonard. “Centralizing inventory creates more opportunities to move wine - through both wholesale and DTC - without second-guessing or overpromising.”

To learn more about empowering your winery team with SUPPLY’s single, accurate source of truth for inventory, request a demo here.

As you explore your options for production software, there are many important considerations. In our buyer’s guide, you’ll learn the right questions to ask and how to properly vet providers to determine what's best for your winery.

Before buying wine production software, here’s what you need to know.

Wine production software can be your #1 tool when it comes to streamlining the winemaking process, but not all software is alike. In our Buyer’s Guide to Wine Production Software, you’ll learn how to vet providers and determine which software is the right fit for your winery.

By Ashley DuBois Leonard, Founder and CEO

The premise is simple: the best software solutions are the ones that fuel the business’ success and the success of their people. Winery management software is not just a place to house data, but a tool that should provide unity, clarity, and transparency across the entire organization. It amazes me how many solutions still miss the mark on this.

InnoVint has always prioritized what solves our client’s greatest problems and what makes the biggest difference. We’re often operating on the ground level with our clients, deep in the trenches of continual improvement to provide the best user experience, but behind the scenes, we are working on much larger initiatives that fuel our higher mission: to help wineries run their businesses effectively to maximize success.

How have we embodied this priority thus far? By bringing teams together that are often siloed from one another. For example,

• Viticulturists and grower relations unite with winemaking by way of our new Advanced Vineyard Tracking module, allowing for instant access to each growing season, expected fruit cost and crop yields.
• Finance teams have instant visibility to production cost information with the Costing feature, which captures the true cost of a wine, allowing for more accurate margin analysis and investment justification.
• Custom crush providers grant direct InnoVint access to their clients with the Custom Crush Permissions feature, saving them dozens of hours a week by simplifying communication and streamlining workflows.
• Seasonal interns connect with their managers with mobile app engagement, allowing for real-time data input at the source and the elimination of back-office data entry.

Access to reliable, real-time data for production planning, financial reporting, and business optics is critical to running a successful winery business. Our future lies in building upon this foundation. InnoVint continues to invest in our clients, not only by way of product developments but more importantly with one another, facilitating avenues to share best practices and operational wins with one another.

We love this industry, and every day we spend working with our fabulous winery management software clients is a day well spent. Each partnership helps us tailor our product to better serve the winegrowing community, and we look forward to continuing to improve winery success.

https://www.innovint.us/insight/maximize-winerys-success/ 

Outpost is an ultra-premium winery in Angwin, California. The winery was established in 1998 with the vision of producing wines that are a living, breathing representation of the 28 acre estate vineyard. Outpost crafts 100% varietal bottlings of Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Petite Sirah and Grenache. Under winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown’s leadership, the grapes are harvested late in the season and processed with as little manipulation as possible. Each block is fermented separately so the winemaking team can be ultra-selective about the lots that comprise the final blends.

In addition to the Estate program, the winery also crafts wines for alternating proprietors and custom crush clients.

Click Here to learn about Outpost Wines' production software selection process, why they chose InnoVint, and the value they've realized over the past few years utilizing the software.

The InnoVint team sat down with Brassfield Estate to understand what caused them to make a change in winery software from vintrace to InnoVint.

The team, led by head winemaker, Carlos Valadez, told us about problems they had after stepping away from InnoVint for a short time due to a change in winemaking leadership. 

And though they realized their mistake early on, they couldn’t switch back until after the 2020 harvest, making for a tough season. 

“At first, the software that we switched to looked great…but then once we started doing the work, putting in weight tags, and trying to do work orders, we decided it was more work than it was worth. We realized that we had switched away from InnoVint at a terrible time…just a couple of months before we started picking’” says Joy Tackett, Production Assistant.

Before digging into their experience further, it might be helpful for you to know a bit about the history of Brassfield. 

History: 

Brassfield Estate is located in Clearlake Oaks, CA, 3000 ft. above sea level on the western section of High Valley, an old belt volcano.

Purchased in 1973 as what was once originally a cattle ranch and wildlife preserve, it is no surprise Brassfield Estate is still home to various wildlife, including turkey, mountain lions, and even the occasional bear family which frequents the estate’s pool. 

The estate began planting grapes in 2001, which now make up about 3000 acres of the property. These particular grapes are known for their thicker skins, bold flavors, and high-density profiles, attributed to the elevation and young soil rich from volcanic ash. Such grapes yield award-winning wines, such as their Sauvignon Blanc and Rosé.

The issue: Time wasted is money lost 

The Brassfield team continued to share the issues they encountered after switching systems right before harvest. As you can imagine, it was time-consuming. 

“The previous software was tough to learn. I was the main data entry person,” says Joy.

However, this wasn’t a welcomed responsibility. “I wasn’t supposed to be a data entry person, but I had to take on that responsibility.”

She continued: “I did a lot of training to be able to learn how to use the main features for harvest. I was constantly asking the team how to use it.” She needed to take time away from her regular work duties to learn a complex wine management software system.

“It was almost a full-time job for me… I could hardly go out to the cellar and do anything…working with the system for like 35 hours per week, almost the whole day.” 

“Once I learned how to use it better, which took several months… and was in the middle of harvest, it took maybe half my time. But we still had confusion. We still had to talk to accounting a lot, which was time-consuming.”

“There was a “steep learning curve,” added Megan Anderson, Lab Manager. The explanation can be summed up in an all too familiar phrase; time is money. And the more time the team spent inputting data or learning that more complex system, the more money they wasted. In fact, they were wasting so much time, they even thought about hiring more employees, which would have made the monetary loss all the more tangible.   

The fix: Choose purpose-built production software to erase the pain  

There was a simple solution to their problem; they could switch back to InnoVint, and that is what they did the first chance they got.

“InnoVint makes the job simpler, instead of adding complexity where we didn’t need it. It lets us do our jobs,” says Joy. “We don’t have to spend all day figuring out how we need to use the program because It’s obvious. So we can go make wine. That’s why when we switched back, it was effortless to step in and start using the program immediately.”

So by readopting InnoVint, Carlos, Megan, Joy, and the rest of the team at Brassfield were able to save themselves time. This allowed them to get back to their actual jobs, crafting superior wine for Brassfield, and focusing on quality and attention to detail, instead of recordkeeping.

After a year of forest fires and the Covid pandemic, saving time and money was particularly important, which forced their tasting rooms to close. However, despite these setbacks, Brassfield Estate was able to get back on track, and they just reopened their tasting rooms on Memorial Day. 

See how InnoVint can save your winery time and money and schedule a free demo with the team.

https://www.innovint.us/case-studies/brassfield-estate-readopts-winery-software/

Eight years ago, I took a sharp left turn in my career.

One could call it a full 180 degree U-turn. I flipped it around and headed back in a direction I thought I’d left behind. 

Winemaking was my professional foundation, but I’d pursued a new direction in technology. I didn’t see a way for these worlds to mold together or traverse back into the world of winemaking until the idea for InnoVint naturally revealed itself.

Reflecting on this past year, I am reminded of this founding story and that, ironically, sometimes we have to turn around to move forward. I can think of many times when significant events ended up being quite defining. At the moment, the heaviness of the situation felt too much to bear, but after it passed and reflecting on it, it all felt meaningful and almost intentional at times, allowing us to be stronger and smarter for it.

As winegrowers, we have to let go enough to embrace whatever Mother Nature will dish up each year, but this year required a different release. The pandemic has forced us all to become comfortable with the uncomfortable and transition to a work environment many thought would never be possible.

Who would have guessed that Zoom would have been such a smart investment? Or that the wedding industry would completely crash? Or that the world of cloud-based software (SaaS, or software-as-a-Service) would experience a “covid boost” due to the global transition to remote work?

Who would have thought that remote winemaking would become a necessity? 

To bring the subject of this blog full circle, nope, turns out I wasn’t out of my mind, despite the numerous “Are you crazy? No one would ever let a winery employee bring a mobile device into a dirty wet cellar!” comments years ago. I wasn’t crazy to start a software company that allows winemakers to work remotely, execute and validate work in real-time, and manage from anywhere. To be fair, I didn’t anticipate this environment. Still, I did predict a new age of working where the information followed winemakers, rather than winemakers having to lock themselves to a computer to deal with any aspect of record-keeping.

Today, given all that’s transpired, InnoVint is now looking at winery management through an updated lens. What do winery owners care about most today? It’s not just about easing the burden of winery management and lowering compliance risk. How do we solve the greatest issues to keep wineries protected and healthy?

We’re deeply exploring how to address answers to these important questions our customers are asking: 

• Is every product profitable? Not just analyzing general costing.
• Am I selling into the right channels? To maintain a healthy diversified DTC and 3-tier balance.
• Am I building a reliable consumer base of brand champions? To make sure I’m better prepared for the future. 
• Am I spending the right amount on production? Compared to my peers of similar size and scale.
• Am I making the best wine within my means? Fully analyzing all the variables. 

These are the core, fundamental questions that InnoVint looks forward to addressing by expanding on our current offerings and into new areas. 

In the spirit of embracing the unknown, here at InnoVint, we remain incredibly optimistic about the future. We have confidence we, the wine industry, will endure whatever the world throws at us. As a service provider, we’ll continue to roll with the punches to keep our winery clients in the best position possible.

InnoVint is thrilled to announce a new 3D tank maps feature, allowing wineries to build a digital replica of their tank maps using cutting-edge web technology.

Replaces Your Whiteboard

Unlike that messy whiteboard, InnoVint’s tank map automatically overlays real-time information about the wine’s status, such as lot code, current volume, date filled, and many other key data points. Watch the video for a tour of this powerful feature.

Enjoy the superpower of X-ray vision and quickly view capacity across many tanks at once. That whiteboard can't compete and honestly, it's not nearly as fun! It’s super simple to create and edit a tank map and customize it to show the most important data to winemaking teams.

Create Your Own 3D Tank Map

This dazzling feature is just the beginning of InnoVint’s vision for an interactive tank map, and current clients can begin using the feature right away to create their very own 3D tank map in minutes!

Request a tank map demo!

Having an accurate case goods inventory count at all times is critical to successful winery management, yet many still rely on manual, outdated spreadsheets that only get periodically updated. This makes inventory reconciliation frustrating, compliance reporting difficult, and doesn’t provide a clear view of what’s available to sell to inform demand and the sales team.

At InnoVint, we believe wineries need a smarter, more connected way to manage inventory. One that integrates seamlessly with production, sales, and financial operations. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce SUPPLY, InnoVint’s case goods inventory management solution and the newest cornerstone of our vision for a fully integrated winery operating system.

The InnoVint Vision: An End-to-End Winery Operating System

For years, wineries have been forced to manage different parts of their business using disconnected tools. Vineyard data, winemaking data, inventory tracking, and associated costs were spread across a variety of resources. This fragmentation slows down operations, creates inefficiencies, and makes it difficult to make informed decisions.

InnoVint’s vision is to change that. Our platform unifies every critical aspect of winery operations into one seamless system, eliminating silos and empowering teams with real-time visibility and actionable insights across the entire business. Our vision for SUPPLY is to provide wineries with a fully connected solution that bridges production, inventory, sales, and finance, offering a transformative approach to operations.

Here’s how InnoVint’s all-in-one winery operating system works together:

• GROW – Track vineyard data, yields, and seasonal activity.
• MAKE – Manage all winemaking from crush to bottling with daily work order management.
• [COMING SOON!] SUPPLY – Streamline case goods inventory, ensuring accuracy and compliance across all storage locations.
• FINANCE – Gain financial clarity with COGS tracking, SKU profitability, and more.

The Old Way vs The New Way: The Inventory Challenge Wineries Can No Longer Ignore

For many wineries, managing case goods inventory is an ongoing challenge that slows down operations, creates compliance headaches, and introduces costly inefficiencies. Without a centralized source of truth, inventory tracking is often scattered across spreadsheets, outdated systems, or disconnected tools. 

Movements between bonded and taxpaid locations are difficult to track, increasing the risk of errors in TTB 5120.17 reporting and leading to heightened stress at audit time. Meanwhile, production and inventory are often managed in silos, making it nearly impossible to tie production costs to inventory value—a major blind spot for assessing SKU profitability.

Sales and marketing teams also face challenges, struggling to understand what’s still available to sell vs. what’s been allocated or already sold through sales channels. Without real-time visibility, wineries risk selling products that are out of stock, underestimating inventory that is available to sell, knowing true library wine availability, or unknowingly keeping inventory on hand for too long.

The old way? Spreadsheets, manual reconciliations, and disjointed systems that require hours of tedious work just to get a single accurate count.

The new way? InnoVint’s case goods inventory management solution, SUPPLY, a centralized, real-time inventory management solution built specifically for wineries that manage inventory across locations.

Introducing InnoVint SUPPLY: The Future of Case Goods Inventory Management for Wineries

As InnoVint’s newest product innovation, SUPPLY is designed to bring clarity, efficiency, and accuracy to case goods inventory management. SUPPLY will integrate effortlessly with Commerce7 to synchronize inventory across platforms and automatically adjust stock levels for fulfilled orders. It provides wineries with a centralized, real-time system to track inventory across all locations, eliminating the need for spreadsheets, manual reconciliations, and disconnected tools. It brings everything into one intuitive platform.

We envision SUPPLY enabling sales teams to forecast inventory demand across regions and channels to ensure the right cases reach the right warehouse for efficient, cost-effective distribution, while fully integrating financial data, like profitability per SKU, to provide general managers with instant clarity on the health and performance of their business. 

In short, InnoVint SUPPLY is more than just an inventory management tool. It’s a comprehensive solution tailored to the unique needs of the wine industry. By tackling key inventory management challenges, SUPPLY empowers wineries to operate efficient and healthy wine businesses.

And we have good news! SUPPLY is now in beta. Want to be part of the future of winery inventory management? 

Join the waitlist and be among the first to experience SUPPLY.

Winery teams deal with a lot of manual work—data entry, rewriting notes, digging through spreadsheets. That’s all time not spent making wine, and it adds up fast. ⏳

This Thursday, Feb 26 at 10 am PT, we’re hosting a short webinar to showcase three real examples of how wineries are using AI to reduce those manual efforts and make winemaking work easier.

✨ We’ll cover how AI can be used to:

• Turn handwritten notes into clean data
• Create work orders by voice
• Get quick answers to everyday questions (alcohol levels, fermentation progression, lot VAs) without digging through spreadsheets

? Learn more and register here

As wineries across the country face softening tasting room conversion rates and increasing pressure on direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales, a new episode of Expert Talks: Wine Industry Insights highlights practical strategies from one of the industry’s leading DTC educators.

InnoVint recently sat down with Liz Mercer, Partner and Winery Coach at WISE Academy, to examine what the top 10% of tasting rooms are doing differently to consistently convert guests into wine club members and drive higher-margin sales.

Drawing on more than 25 years of wine industry experience, Mercer outlines the operational disciplines, team training strategies, and guest experience enhancements that set apart high-performing tasting rooms from the rest. Rather than relying on aggressive sales tactics, the discussion focuses on intentional hospitality, empowered front-of-house (FOH) teams, and structured yet authentic club conversations.

The episode offers actionable guidance for wineries looking to:

• Grow their DTC and wine club membership base
• Increase sales of higher-margin wines
• Strengthen and support tasting room teams
• Elevate the overall guest experience

For wineries seeking practical insights to improve tasting room performance, the full episode is now available to watch.

Check out the full video below, and read the top 7 takeaways in the full blog post here.

As wineries across the country face softening tasting room conversion rates and increasing pressure on direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales, a new episode of Expert Talks: Wine Industry Insights highlights practical strategies from one of the industry’s leading DTC educators.

InnoVint recently sat down with Liz Mercer, Partner and Winery Coach at WISE Academy, to examine what the top 10% of tasting rooms are doing differently to consistently convert guests into wine club members and drive higher-margin sales.

Drawing on more than 25 years of wine industry experience, Mercer outlines the operational disciplines, team training strategies, and guest experience enhancements that set apart high-performing tasting rooms from the rest. Rather than relying on aggressive sales tactics, the discussion focuses on intentional hospitality, empowered front-of-house (FOH) teams, and structured yet authentic club conversations.

The episode offers actionable guidance for wineries looking to:

• Grow their DTC and wine club membership base
• Increase sales of higher-margin wines
• Strengthen and support tasting room teams
• Elevate the overall guest experience

For wineries seeking practical insights to improve tasting room performance, the episode is now available to watch or listen on your preferred platforms.

Check out the video below, and read the top 7 takeaways in the blog post here.

InnoVint Announces Intelligent Winery Workflows Powered by AI

New AI capabilities automate data capture, reporting, and work order creation to reduce manual work in winery operations

InnoVint, the leading winery operations & production platform, today announced the launch of Intelligent Winery Workflows, introducing artificial intelligence directly into core production workflows to help winery teams move faster with less manual effort.

As part of this launch, all InnoVint customers now have access to InnoVint’s AI Analysis Import functionality, which allows teams to snap a photo of handwritten lab notes or analysis sheets and automatically capture that data in InnoVint. During the recent harvest, wineries uploaded hundreds of documents and thousands of analyses, eliminating thousands of manual keystrokes from everyday workflows.

InnoVint also previewed two upcoming AI-powered capabilities:

• AI Generated Reports will enable wineries to create reports using plain-language text or voice, making it easier to access production insights without building complex filters.
• AI Work Order Creation will allow cellar teams to translate short text or voice instructions into structured work orders, speeding up task creation on both mobile and desktop.

These new workflows mark the first phase of InnoVint’s broader effort to thoughtfully weave AI throughout its winery operating system to reduce manual work and help teams move faster with less friction.

Wineries can learn more by registering for InnoVint’s upcoming webinar or by visiting the InnoVint booth (#114) at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium to see these capabilities in action.

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