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Migrate your Encompass Production Cloud data

Cloud-native ERP built for beverage producers—craft breweries, distilleries, and multi-segment makers managing production, inventory, purchasing, sales, and finance in one platform.

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In its favor

Why people choose Encompass Production Cloud

The signal that keeps Encompass Production Cloud on the shortlist. Sourced from G2, Capterra, and customer scoping calls.

Out-of-the-box beverage production modules eliminate the customisation burden that generic ERPs impose on craft breweries and distilleries, letting producers go live faster.

Single source of truth across purchasing, production, QC, inventory, sales, and finance consolidates data that previously lived in disconnected spreadsheets and legacy tools.

Real-time dashboards surface production variances and cost-of-goods data so finance and operations teams make decisions from the same live numbers.

Batch Backtrace functionality provides lot-level traceability from raw ingredients to finished goods, satisfying TTB audits and enabling precise recall handling.

Subscription pricing with volume discounts and a claimed 30–50% lower five-year total cost of ownership compared to alternatives reduces the commitment risk for growing producers.

Pricing scales per user, which becomes a constraint for producers with large floor teams or seasonal spikes in headcount that do not align with batch volume.

Limited public API documentation and lack of a documented bulk-export endpoint make self-service data extraction difficult without engaging professional services.

Mid-size and enterprise producers with complex distributor EDI integrations report friction when connecting Encompass Production Cloud to existing distribution workflows.

Producers seeking to consolidate production data with Distribution Cloud or third-party analytics platforms find the integration tooling immature compared to established ERP ecosystems.

Reasons to switch

Why people leave Encompass Production Cloud

The recurring reasons buyers give for replacing Encompass Production Cloud. Presented as facts, not knocks.

Platform scorecard

Strengths, weaknesses, and where Encompass Production Cloud fits

Grades across six dimensions, plus a SWOT-style view of where the platform shines and where it falls short.

SWOT — strengths, weaknesses, and use-case fit

Strengths

Purpose-built for craft beverage producers with native support for beer, spirits, THC, cider, and NA segments.Batch Backtrace delivers lot-level traceability from raw ingredient to finished bottle for TTB compliance and recall readiness.Production Variance tracking surfaces planned vs. actual cost and yield discrepancies in real time.Unified platform consolidates production, inventory, purchasing, sales, and finance into a single database without spreadsheet reconciliation.Subscription SaaS model includes product updates and reduces on-premises infrastructure burden.

Weaknesses

Per-user pricing scales cost with floor-staff headcount, creating billing pressure during seasonal labour spikes.No publicly documented bulk-export or REST API for self-service data extraction from Production Cloud.Limited integration ecosystem compared to established ERPs, making cross-platform consolidations complex.Historical financial transaction migration requires negotiated scope and manual mapping work.API authentication, rate limits, and endpoint availability are not publicly documented, limiting automation options.

Where it works

Craft breweries and craft distilleries with 10–100 employees managing production, inventory, purchasing, sales, and finance across a single database without spreadsheet reconciliation.Multi-segment beverage producers running concurrent beer, spirits, THC, cider, and NA production lines that require separate segment-level routing and cost tracking.Growing craft producers preparing for TTB compliance audits using batch-level traceability from raw ingredients to finished bottles and recall readiness workflows.Producers consolidating disconnected legacy tools and spreadsheets into a unified SaaS platform with real-time dashboards, targeting the claimed 30–50% lower five-year TCO versus alternatives.

Where it struggles

Mid-size to large producers with distributed teams exceeding 100 users, where per-user pricing creates prohibitive cost during seasonal hiring spikes.Multi-warehouse operations requiring advanced EDI integration with major distributors and retail partners, where Encompass integration tooling is reported as immature.Organizations needing to consolidate production data with external BI platforms or third-party analytics, given the limited integration ecosystem compared to established ERP vendors.Producers requiring self-service data extraction and bulk export without engaging vendor professional services, given the absence of documented bulk-export endpoints.

Pricing tiers

Encompass Production Cloud pricing overview

Encompass Production Cloud uses a per-user, per-month subscription model starting at $110/user/month. Volume discounts are available, and the company claims 30–50% lower total cost of ownership over five years compared to alternative ERP solutions. Exact tier capabilities are not publicly published; pricing is provided upon request through their sales team.

Basic

Tier 1 of 3

$110.00 per user per month

What's included

Core production, inventory, purchasing, sales, and finance modulesProduction scheduling and batch managementQuality control checkpointsStandard reporting and dashboardsCloud-hosted SaaS with automatic updates

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What gets migrated

Encompass Production Cloud object support

Object-by-object support for Encompass Production Cloud migrations. Per-pair details surface during scoping.

Batches

Fully supported

Batches are the primary production record in Encompass Production Cloud. Each batch links to a Bill of Materials, production schedule, ingredient lot assignments, and finished-goods inventory records. We map batch headers and line-item components 1:1 and preserve the lot-to-batch parent-child relationship during migration.

Bills of Materials

Fully supported

Bills of Materials define recipe formulations with ingredient quantities, unit-of-measure conversions, and cost allocations. We extract BOM versions and map them to destination recipe records, flagging any versioned or superseded BOMs that require a selection decision from the customer.

Production Schedules

Mapping required

Production schedules capture planned run quantities, start/end times, and assigned resources. The scheduling granularity and resource-linkage model varies between source and destination platforms, so we map schedule headers and flag line-level resource assignments for manual review.

Inventory Lots

Fully supported

Inventory lots track raw materials and finished goods with quantity, location, cost, and TTB-relevant attributes. We migrate lot records with full genealogy chains and preserve lot-level traceability links used by Batch Backtrace.

Production Variances

Fully supported

Variance records capture planned vs. actual consumption for each batch run, including material usage, labour time, and yield discrepancies. We export variance records keyed to their parent batch ID so the cost-of-goods story is preserved at the line level.

Quality Control Records

Mapping required

QC records include inspection checkpoints, pass/fail results, and corrective actions tied to specific batches or production runs. The schema for QC fields varies between tiers and add-on configurations, so we map standard QC data and flag custom inspection fields.

Sales Orders

Fully supported

Sales orders link to inventory allocation and production demand signals. We map order headers, line items, pricing, and fulfilment status. Orders that are partially shipped require careful status mapping at the destination.

Purchase Orders

Fully supported

Open and historical purchase orders with vendor assignments, line items, expected delivery dates, and received quantities are extracted. We flag any PO-to-receiving linkage that may break if inventory transactions reference PO IDs not yet migrated.

Chart of Accounts

Mapping required

Finance module accounts define the cost structure for COGS, labour, overhead, and revenue recognition. Account numbers and segment structures vary by company, so we map account IDs and require a customer-supplied mapping table for the destination chart.

Open AP/AR

Mapping required

Open payables and receivables carry customer/vendor IDs, invoice amounts, due dates, and payment terms. These require careful reconciliation against the customer/vendor master records already migrated, and we flag any invoices with unresolved reference IDs.

Historical Transactions

Mapping required

Closed GL entries, cost-of-goods postings, and inventory adjustment transactions constitute the financial history. Migration scope for historical transactions is negotiated with the customer because the volume can be large and the accounting period requirements vary by compliance need.

Production Users

Mapping required

User accounts map to roles and permissions that control access to production, QC, and finance modules. Role schemas differ between Encompass tiers, so we extract user assignments and map them to destination role profiles.

Gotchas

What to watch for in Encompass Production Cloud migrations

Issues we've hit on past Encompass Production Cloud migrations, tagged by severity. FlitStack AI handles every one — surfacing them up front because buyer engineering teams want to know.

High

Encompass Production Cloud and ICE Mortgage Encompass are unrelated products

High

No documented public REST API for Production Cloud data export

Medium

Per-user pricing model limits floor-staff access to production data

Medium

Bills of Materials versioning requires customer selection decision

Low

Batch Backtrace genealogy chains are non-obvious export targets

How a Encompass Production Cloud migration works

Four steps, Encompass Production Cloud-specific

Connect

Not publicly documented into Encompass Production Cloud. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.

Map

We translate Encompass Production Cloud-specific structures (custom fields, objects, value lists) to the destination's model.

Sample

Test with a 50–200 record subset to validate Encompass Production Cloud quirks before production.

Migrate

Full migration with Encompass Production Cloud rate-limit handling. Rollback available throughout.

FAQ

Encompass Production Cloud migration FAQ

Answers to the questions buyers ask most during Encompass Production Cloud migration scoping. Not seeing yours? Book a call.

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Most Encompass Production Cloud migrations under 1M records finish in 48–72 hours end-to-end. Larger orgs with custom objects or buyer-side security review typically take 5–7 days.

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