Modular Information Systems, www.modularinfosystems.com, with an established track record in innovation with integrated database management and software design, provides ongoing professional services and Vintners Advantage software upgrades to The Wine Group.

Modular Information Systems (MIS), who has offered ‘Vine to Wine’ solutions in its Vintners Advantage software for nearly fifteen years, is celebrating the success of the its largest end-to-end user solution for The Wine Group. Modular, a Microsoft Certified Partner and IBM Business Partner, has been in the technology solutions business for over 23 years.

The Wine Group, a privately-held San Francisco-based wine company, acquired Golden State Vintners in 2004. After the completion of the Golden State Vintners acquisition, The Wine Group had nine facilities operating on two disparate bulk wine tracking software systems. Brent Nielsen, Vice President of Information Systems at The Wine Group explained, “We needed over-all management of all our [bulk] wine inventory systems in one cohesive software package.”

Dan Zastrow, Vice President of Supplier Development at The Wine Group is very enthusiastic about Vintners Advantage, “One of the great benefits of having MIS is that Modular has extensive and long-term [wine] industry understanding. The Vintners Advantage software had the capability to help us consolidate the two systems. Now we have the ability to track our wine all the way from the grower down to the specific case the wine goes into.”

From the onset, The Wine Group had in place a grower payment module that did not tie into the wine-tracking module. The Vintners Advantage software successfully integrated a number of associated database systems for grape receipts and grower payables but added the functionality of an accounts payable system into one cohesive database.

Lisa Corbett, President of Modular explains, “We have an ongoing relationship with the Wine Group and spent a great deal of time working closely with them to understand all of the variables that would need to be considered in the initial implementation. Vintners Advantage is scalable and as The Wine Group grows, we work with them to upgrade and enhance their system. We’re also proud of being 100% compliant with the homeland security bioterrorism law. We provided that service at no additional charge from the beginning, but it has been a huge
undertaking as it required the capability of tracking additives by lot number so that both vineyard lots and cases could be tracked.”

With the implementation complete and the full functionality become apparent to The Wine Group’s end users, Nielsen is very pleased, “The cost/value relationship versus Modular’s competitors was much better and that was a big factor in the decision to use Vintners Advantage.”

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.modularinfosystems.com or call 866-647-3757.