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Filling Empty Barrels

Producer/distillery steps for filling empty barrels from completed Production Orders in the Barrel Management Console, including back-dating fills and writing off leftover tank liquid. Requires v24.01+.

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Written by Bailey Naas-Thornton

Minimum Version Required: 24.01

Pre-Conditions

Production Orders producing WIP liquid to be aged
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  • Status - Completed or Verified
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  • Production Order Type - all types except Packaging
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  • Bin Lots Inventory > 0
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  • Production Order Output Product
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  • Track Batch Codes = True
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Equipment Type
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  • Is Barrel = True
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  • Is Portable = True
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  • Product = NOT NULL (set as non-inventory barrel product)
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  • Planned Fill Count - set to the desired number of fills for all Equipment under this
    Equipment Type. This will be used to disburse the barrel cost to the liquid in the barrel at the time of the barrel fill. See ‘Barrel Cost Disbursement’ for more details.
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Equipment
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  • Status = Active
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  • Barrel Attribute Condition = Empty or New
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  • Barrel Equipment Location = Production Order Location

Steps


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​How to Use:


1. Navigate to ‘BMC Home’.
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2. Filter completed Production Orders using filters in the left sidebar.
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3. Select the Production Order inventory you wish to fill into an empty barrel.
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4. Click ‘Fill Barrels’.
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5. Select barrel Equipment Type & specific Barrels to fill.
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6. Confirm the fill volume of barrels
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  • See the ‘Total Fill Volume’ & the ‘Remaining Capacity’ of liquid available in the selected PdO


7. Click ‘Process’ to fill barrels.
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8. Enter the date for the barrel fill. This step allows the back-dating of barrel filling that occurred in the past.
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9. If the source tank containing the barrel-proofed spirit has remaining liquid that qualifies for the ‘Write-off Threshold’ then the user is prompted to write-off the remaining liquid.
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  • The adjustment Customer selected will determine where the proof gallon loss maps to the TTB DRO based on the Customer’s ‘TTB Tax Code’.

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