ABM Onboarding Guide

What Is ABM? 

Arryved Brewery Management (ABM) optimizes brewery inventory, production, and sales processes that save you time, money, and hassle and provides a single and complete picture of your business! Follow the steps in this guide to get set up for the first time in your ABM!

Prerequisites

• You must be an ABM User with the Admin User Role. 

Onboarding With ABM

Steps To Follow

1. Add Sites & Inventory Locations
2. Add Items
3. Add Companies
4. Create Recipes
5. Invite Users

Step 1: Add Sites & Inventory Locations

Sites are your various business addresses. These could be your brewing facilities, taprooms, brewpubs, warehouses, etc.

Inventory Locations are the individual areas within your Sites that hold your Inventory. Inventory Locations can be physical storage spaces, production vessels, or taproom areas. Or, a hypothetical location such as “Reserved For Events”. 

1. Use the Sites & Inventory Locations guide to complete this step. 
2. When finished, return to this guide and continue to Step 2. 

Step 2: Add Items

It’s important to understand the difference between Items and Inventory in your ABM. Keep reading to learn more about these terms, then complete the steps to add your Items. 

Items in your ABM are any possible items you want to track the purchase or sale of. This could be Finished Goods, Materials, and Other Items. 

• Finished Goods are the items that you sell. These can be the finished beverages from your Production, guest beverages, or other sellable items like merchandise. 
• Materials are the Items you have purchased to use in production/operations such as ingredients, supplies, and packaging. 
• Other Items can be anything else you need to take inventory of such as tap handles or credits/discounts. 

Think of Items as templates that hold the item’s identifying information such as the name, brand, description, size, ABV, etc. Once Items are added, you probably won’t need to make any significant changes to them, but you may keep adding more Items over time. 

Inventory in your ABM refers to physical Items you have on hand to sell or use. 

Inventory holds more dynamic information about Items such as cost, quantity in stock, location, and allocation. Inventory is what’s directly affected by day-to-day activities. You’ll learn how to manage Inventory later. 

1. Use the Materials guide.
2. Use the Finished Goods guide.
3. Add and Other Items you may need.
4. When finished, return to this guide and continue to Step 3. 

Step 3: Add Companies

Companies in ABM are the other businesses you collaborate with. This includes the Suppliers you purchase Items from and the Customers you sell Items to. Use the guides below to add your Companies:

1. Use the Suppliers guide.
2. Use the Customers guide.
3. When finished, continue to Step 4.

Step 4: Create Recipes

Recipes are used for ease of planning Production Batches. An Item’s Recipe acts as a template for a Batch, holding the ingredient list and timing instructions for each stage of production. This way, when it’s time to produce a Batch of that Item, most of the input work is already complete. All you need to do is pick the vessels for each stage and schedule it! Recipes track ingredient quantities, costs, packaging plans, and loss percentages.

1. Use the Recipes guide to complete this step. 
2. When finished, return to this guide and continue to Step 5. 

Step 5: Invite Users

Users are the personnel who can log into your ABM. 

Invite anyone you’d like to have access to the ABM as a User. You just need to enter their name and email address and after they’ve accepted the invite, they can be assigned Roles that’ll grant them certain viewing or editing permissions. Add as many Users as you’d like! 

3. Use the ABM Users and User Roles guide to complete this step. 

Next

Now that your ABM data is entered, you’re ready for business! Below is a snapshot of what your process looks like going forward.