Accurate COGS, Real Time Inventory, and Superior Support

Since taking the plunge and switching to Brew Ninja, Rebellion has seen a massive uptick in productivity, efficiency, and has been able to save countless hours of time per week, to name a few things. In short, they have been able to solve all of the problems they were looking to solve, and have come out better because of it.

According to Jeff Harms, Finance Manager at Rebellion Brewing, "We now have faith in our data and we are working far more efficiently than we ever had before we made the switch to Brew Ninja."

In terms of specific positive impacts, Rebellion describes it best. Firstly, Rebellion was having plenty of issues when it came to bugs, slowdown, and support help with their previous service. As far as they're concerned, this issue is practically eliminated. They believe that Brew Ninja's service and support team fixes problems quickly, and communicates well along the way. Not only that, but support wait times have gone from days, weeks, or even months with their previous service, to immediate responses and fast solutions with Brew Ninja.

"The speed of which issues are resolved allows all of our departments to work more efficiently and frees up time for us to work on things that really matter." stated Jeff Harms.

Jeff also believes that Brew Ninja is not only great in it's current state, but has also experienced that it has been very open to constructive criticism and any suggestions that their team might have to improve the product. In his experience, this is uncommon, and Jeff feels that it is very refreshing.

Additionally, some of Rebellion's largest issues with their previous systems revolved around the lack of accurate inventory and cost of goods sold. Obviously, while running any business these are important, but especially so for a brewery. Thankfully, this is an issue of the past.

"Being more reliable we have found Brew Ninja much better at not just tracking our stock and production levels but also our cost of goods sold. Helping us to make better, more informed decisions when managing all aspects of the brewery." said Zaul McLellan

Jeff continued on to say that he feels that their inventory count process has been sped up significantly, and thanks to being able to set up re-order alerts and having a live view of inventory levels for all of their products, materials, and more, their inventory system is now actually reliable thanks to Brew Ninja.

In terms of costing, Jeff also praised that their costing is now accurate and provides them with real time margins. Because of the high inflation in the market this is important for any brewery, and this is no different for Rebellion. They rely on this information to try to maintain their margins, as it tells them if they need to look for efficiencies on the cost side and/or review their pricing, and this is a problem Brew Ninja has helped them solve.

Another issue Rebellion kept running into was reporting. Specifically, support for the Canadian tax system felt increasingly neglected. As a Canadian brewery, this made it not only difficult, but time consuming to do their taxes. When Rebellion made the switch to Brew Ninja, Jeff was pleased with Brew Ninja's understanding of their local taxes, which improved their ability to efficiently produce their tax reports.

According to Zaul McLellan, "Being based in Canada they (Brew Ninja) just understand the Canadian side of taxes a lot better than any of the competition."

Rebellion found some other, smaller benefits to using their new system that helped improve their day to day as well. Specifically, that the whole system feels better designed with a smarter workflow that understands what breweries need, and that the ability to access the software on the go via their phones has been a huge help during daily operations. As well, Zaul felt that the switch over from their previous system went far smoother than they expected, and this allowed them to seamlessly switch between services without any major hiccups. Lastly, according to Jeff, the ability to enter vendor orders into Brew Ninja and have them sync over to QBO has helped save them a lot of duplicate entry that they had been doing previously.

We can continue describing all the ways Rebellion has benefited from Brew Ninja all day, but we'll let Rebellion sum it up instead.

According to Zaul McLellan, "These differences have made us find Brew Ninja a lot easier to work with and to be more reliable across the board, from the software to the people. We do not regret making the switch."