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Best Demand Forecasting Software for Belgian Craft Breweries
Belgium's brewing sector exports roughly 70% of its beer production, making it one of the most export-dependent beer industries in the world. Yet export volumes
Read guide →Best Demand Forecasting Software for Craft Breweries
The US craft beer market has plateaued at around 13% market share — and with 9,000+ breweries competing for the same 12–15 tap handles at any given bar, demand
Read guide →Demand Forecasting for Michigan Craft Breweries
Michigan has 410 craft breweries, eighth most in the country, competing in the one census division that grew while national craft volume fell 4% in 2025. That m
Read guide →Best Inventory Visibility Software for Beer Distributors
The average beer distributor manages 800+ active SKUs across multiple temperature-controlled warehouses, with freshness windows that make stock rotation non-neg
Read guide →Inventory Visibility Software for Craft Beer Distributors
US craft brewing production fell 4 per cent to 22.03 million barrels in 2025, with 60 per cent of breweries reporting a decline. Retail dollar value slipped 2.8
Read guide →Best Inventory Visibility Software for Craft Breweries
US craft beer production fell 5.1% in 2025 — the sharpest single-year decline on record — with 481 brewery closures and only 300 new openings. In a market contr
Read guide →Smart Replenishment for Colorado Beer Distributors
Colorado has 423 craft breweries, fifth most of any state and sixth most per capita. For a distributor that means a book with an unusually long tail: many small
Read guide →How to Reduce Stockouts in Craft Beer Distribution
A craft beer stockout isn't just a missed sale — it's a tap handle your brewery partner can lose permanently, an account that fills with a competitor's product,
Read guide →How to Reduce Stockouts in Craft Breweries
Craft beer production fell 4% in 2025 to 22,034,000 barrels on the Brewers Association's revised figures, retail dollar value slipped 2.8% to $28.0 billion, and
Read guide →Wine & Spirits
Best Demand Forecasting Software for Bordeaux Wine Exporters
Bordeaux exports fell 4.5% in volume to 16.6 million cases in 2024, while export value slipped 1.4% to €5.28 billion — the lowest volume since 2017 but with rel
Read guide →Demand Forecasting for Burgundy Négociants
Over the first eight months of 2025, Bourgogne exports grew 4.3% in volume but only 1.2% in value, and that gap is the whole story. Canada rose 25.3% in volume
Read guide →Demand Forecasting for California Wine Distributors
California winery inventory sat at roughly 19 months of forward supply at the close of 2025, down from above 20 months in 2024 and still above historical norms.
Read guide →Best Demand Forecasting Software for Champagne Maisons
Global Champagne shipments fell to 266 million bottles in 2025, a 2% decline and the lowest level in 20 years excluding the pandemic year of 2020. France accoun
Read guide →Best Demand Forecasting Software for UK Wine Importers
UK alcohol duty rose 4.3% on 1 February 2026, and the wine easement that covered 11.5% to 14.5% ABV — roughly 80% of the UK wine market — ended the same day. Ev
Read guide →Demand Forecasting Software for Yarra Valley Wine Producers
Australian wine exports fell 7 per cent by volume to 603 million litres in the 12 months to March 2026, while export value fell 14 per cent to $2.28 billion. By
Read guide →Best Inventory Visibility Software for California Wine Distributors 2026
California’s 2025 grape crush came in at 2,759,202 tons, a 6.2% decline from 2024, with red wine varieties down 10.8% and average red wine grape prices falling
Read guide →Best Inventory Visibility Software for Oregon Wineries
Oregon's 2025 crush came in at roughly 58,000 tons — down 13% from 2024 and the second consecutive below-average vintage. For Willamette Valley producers managi
Read guide →Performance Analytics Software for Wine Distributors
US wine sales fell to roughly 329 million cases and $74.3 billion in 2025, down 2.0 per cent by case and 1.6 per cent by dollar, a second consecutive year of de
Read guide →Best Shipment Tracking Software for Australian Wine Exporters
Australian wine exports fell 8% in value to $2.34 billion AUD in the 12 months to December 2025, with China down 17% in value and volume after the post-tariff r
Read guide →Shipment Tracking for Tuscany Wine Exporters
In 2025 the US duty on Italian wine changed twice inside one year: roughly 6.3 cents per litre until 4 April, a 10% tariff added from 5 April, and 15% from 8 Au
Read guide →Best Shipment Tracking Software for Washington Wine Distributors
Washington's wine industry ships 22+ million cases annually across some of the most geographically varied distribution territory in the US — from dense Seattle
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Best Demand Forecasting Software for Specialty Food Distributors
A specialty food distributor managing 500+ SKUs across artisan cheese, charcuterie, specialty condiments, and seasonal items lives or dies by demand forecasting
Read guide →Best Inventory Management Software for Perishable Food Distributors
Perishable food distribution is the highest-stakes inventory management challenge in the food supply chain. A pallet of artisan cheese past its optimal window i
Read guide →Best Supplier Coordination Software for Specialty Food Producers: 2026 Guide
The specialty food industry reached $219 billion in annual sales in 2025, according to the Specialty Food Association, but it runs on a supply chain infrastruct
Read guide →Supply Chain Software for Specialty Food Importers
A specialty food importer sits at the seam where a foreign supplier's lot records, a customs entry, and a domestic distributor's requirements all have to reconc
Read guide →How to Reduce Stockouts in Specialty Food Distribution
The average fill rate for perishable food supply chains sits at 92%, which sounds close to perfect until you calculate what the missing 8% costs: for a specialt
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