Case Study: Moosehead Breweries achieves major capacity gains and shrinkage reduction with Flowmation Systems' BIS/QIS

Moosehead Breweries - Customer Case Study

Moosehead Breweries faced manufacturing challenges after rapid growth: their Oracle ERP worked well for finance, sales and supply chain but lacked ready-to-deploy manufacturing capabilities, and the company needed better capacity, efficiency, quality control and cost management. To avoid costly capital expansion and heavy ERP customization, Moosehead engaged Flowmation Systems to supply an alternative production solution.

Flowmation Systems deployed its integrated brewery and quality information systems (BIS/QIS) to improve tracing, process visibility, control and quality data for brewhouse, cellar and lab operations. The solution enabled identification of variability, postponed capital expenditures, increased capacity by about 33,000 hL, reduced shrinkage by about 23,000 hL, improved malt yield by 1% and cut solid shrinkage by 1%, while lowering costs and improving service.

Moosehead Breweries

Peter J. Henneberry

Vice President, Operations