Top 3 Brewery Software Reports You Should Be Using

Our Sales Reports are some of the top ones we see being utilized by breweries using Ollie brewery software the most. Specifically, the “Sales by X Report” is a customizable and dynamic look into your brewery’s sales performance and allows you to peek at your data in many different ways with purpose.

This is an excellent report to quickly grab a quick snapshot of your sales or cost of goods sold during specific time periods and gives your team the ability to effortlessly compare weeks or months. It’s also incredibly easy to look at your product sales in that window.

One of my favorite ways to run this report is comparing unit sales on a monthly basis to get a better feel for customer ordering consistency. If you’re utilizing our Customer Groups feature, this report is a fantastic tool to help you better understand sales performance within your defined groups, enabling you to uncover trends and opportunities.

Overall, it’s a powerful report that serves many different roles in reporting your brewery’s sales numbers. This is certainly a report you should be reviewing monthly, but a case can be made for looking at it weekly or even daily!

This report is amazing for investigating your finished goods on hand versus your production. If you find yourself out of stock on a product variant, and it’s not due to lack of brewing capacity this report will be a boon to you.

By month, it will display your depletion (sales and adjustments) organized by product. If you find yourself jumping too many ½ bbl kegs to ⅙ bbl kegs you may need to keep a close eye on this report to find where your discrepancies are.

Sure, checking this report monthly is a great habit—but it really shines when it’s part of your regular production meeting routine. Whether you’re meeting every week or just once a month, this report can help you stay ahead of demand and dial in smarter packaging runs.

It was a close call, but this report tied with the Sales by X Report for most-loved by the Ollie crew. It’s honestly an amazing report to help you with your inventory. If your brewery is working with multiple locations, a variety of storage locations, or you have just one coldbox– all of your product is flowing through this is the report to track down inventory.

The Inventory Reconciliation Report provides a summary of finished goods in and out of every location with a full breakdown by product including your starting and finishing inventories.

If your Ollie Finished Goods inventory isn’t in alignment with a hard count this is the report to review. Running this report monthly will ensure you understand where your inventory is going and why.

The Sales by Lot report is one of the most important reports in Ollie. If you’re not reviewing this report on a regular basis then you’re not taking full advantage of what Ollie has to offer you.

This report displays every sale, by product, by customer, by lot displaying revenue, cost of goods sold and profitability. First and foremost, if your packaging team had an off day and put out a run of cans with questionable seams you can run this report to see which one of your customers received those specific lots of beer.

On top of that, and this is huge, you can look at your profitability by lot code. You can investigate whether any price increases are influencing your bottom line profitability. The key here is understanding not only what beers you’re delivering to the market, but if it’s profitable for you to do so. There is a “sweet spot” for every business between volume and profitability and Ollie’s Sales by Lot Report is the go to report for guiding your brewery’s business’s strategy.

There’s no shortage of valuable reports in Ollie, but these are the ones that can deliver immediate wins—giving you clearer visibility into your brewery’s performance and helping you make smarter decisions every day.

If your brewery is already using Ollie make sure you’re taking advantage of this valuable data.

If you’re still managing your brewery with spreadsheets or using another software that’s falling short, it might be time to see what a brewery software like Ollie can really do. Schedule a demo with our team and we’ll walk you through how Ollie’s reporting tools (and the rest of the platform) can make running your brewery a whole lot easier.