The Organization
A craft brewery conglomerate that unites well-known brands to pool business resources, allowing each brand to spend more time fueling their passions and flavors.
Success Story: Craft Brewery Streamlines Wholesale Distribution Compliance
Background
This craft brewing company needed a centralized tool to make state tax reporting and brand registrations less of a burden on their team. Without having a regulatory team on staff, the business-critical functions of licensing, brand registration, state gallonage reporting and tax filings were handled by one person utilizing manual processes. Sovos ShipCompliant’s 3-Tier Reporting with AutoFile and Market Ready allow their team to reduce both the time spent on filings and reporting errors.
Top Challenges
- Before partnering with Sovos ShipCompliant, the craft brewery kept track of licensing information and renewal dates in spreadsheets and calendar reminders.
- As they scaled, they needed a centralized solution to keep up with their growth.
- Keeping track of state requirements was time consuming, as the team makes a variety of beverage alcohol products, each with their own specific set of laws to abide by depending on their varying distribution footprints.
- Complex brand registrations made bringing seasonal brews to market a long and difficult process—delaying timely go-to-market when timing really mattered.
The Solution
- The brewery partnered with Sovos ShipCompliant for 3-Tier Reporting with AutoFile and Market Ready solutions to simplify their go-to-market compliance and state reporting processes.
- Once sales orders are uploaded, Sovos ShipCompliant’s AutoFile filings team takes care of the rest, ensuring that state returns and taxes are filed and paid on time.
- Market Ready streamlines and automates state product and brand label registrations, helping ease the compliance burden for the brewery group as they sell into 30 states.
3-Tier Reporting with AutoFile and Market Ready Benefits
- Streamlined compliance process for state reporting allows for products to go to market faster.
- Eliminated the need to manually research individual state compliance requirements.
“As our business scaled, having a centralized compliance system was key to keeping up with our growth. There’s no way I could do my job with the accuracy and speed necessary if I was still using a spreadsheet.”
Additional Benefits
Implementing 3-Tier Reporting with AutoFile and Market Ready brought immediate results. State requirements, brand registrations and license renewal notices are now easy to find in our centralized solution. Managing brand approvals for their various product portfolios is faster than ever thanks to the color-coded user interface.
Why 3-Tier Reporting with AutoFile and Market Ready?
Sovos ShipCompliant 3-Tier Reporting with AutoFile and Market Ready offers a single place to store and track all compliance data and brand registrations. Sales and use tax, excise tax, gallonage and shipment reports are filed with ease across each brand. Partnering with Sovos ShipCompliant allows this craft brewery to ensure compliance with each of their award-winning brands.
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