Lot Attributes

You set up lot attributes to track changes to the blend lot as a result of the operations of the blend process. If no changes occur, the lot attribute is carried forward to the next lot. Lot attributes include end-use reservation (EUR), ownership, style, composition, material type, wine status, blend ID, accumulated additives, summary and instructed attributes, as well as lot comments, lot costs, and quality test results.

EURs enable you to specify the intended uses for a blend lot, for example, whether the bulk material will eventually go into a premium wine or a house wine. You can also set up specifications for the EUR, for example parameters for test result values that you can validate whenever necessary.

Ownership is used to identify the legal ownership of a blend lot at any point during the process. As with barrels, the style definition specifies how to calculate and track the effect of the operations on the blend lot. Composition tracks origins of the bulk material that went into the blend lot, for example, where and when the material was harvested, and what variety of grapes it includes. The system derives the harvest information from the Grower Management system.

To track the transformation of the bulk material throughout the blend process, you set up material types, for example grape, juice, must or fortified wine. To enable tracking by wine status and blend ID, you can define wine status information, and set up the information that you want to concatenate for the blend ID. The system enables you to set up summary attributes that display the predominant attributes of a blended lot, for example, the predominant appellation in a composition and its percentage.

You can create additional user-defined instructed attribute and specify what type of value you want the system to display. Finally, you can also attach comments to each lot that the system carries through the process. You can modify and add to these comments.

The system enables you not only to displays lot attributes, but also to calculate values based on specific lot attribute values and display them. You set up named calculations to define which lot attributes to select for the calculation and specify a rule for returning a result, for example, an average or the largest value. You use named calculation for setting up EUR specifications as well.