Wineries “Change Management” System
I visited one of the larger (top 5 by revenue) wineries in Napa. And heard a very interesting story. Apparently most wines these days are made from grapes from a couple of places if not more. And the law requires that you have to keep track of exactly what volume of crushed grapes has done into a particular barrel, and where did the grapes come from etc. This is done with “Grape Crush Management System”.
If the wineries don’t keep track or for some reason the data gets messed up or the system goes down, they can sell the wine as $2 generic wine in a low end store. So this is very important.
The grape crushing lasts only for 2-3 months of the year. So what a lot of wineries do during this period is first to take the system off the network … so no one can log into it. Second all login’s except like the COO are disabled. You can only access this from a room which is under lock and key.
All because they don’t want anyone to make any changes during this time period.
Add comment November 5th, 2006
