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Are your processes broken, disjointed or siloed?

Are your projects going over budget or not delivering the benefits they should?

Are you looking to implement JD Edwards, or need help with your existing installation??

If you answered yes to any of these, give us a call and let's work together to help you grow.

WE HELP YOU GROW

Independent Management and Solution Consultants for Wine and Agriculture.

IT MANAGEMENT

The IT world is changing every day. If your company doesn’t have the resources to manage your technology investment, has disgruntled staff because of inadequate systems or is wanting to embark on new systems, let us help you. From strategic plans and reviews to project and change management, we can bring our expertise and experience to help you focus on your expertise. We have years of experience in C-Level and Senior Management in wine and agricultural IT and business roles to bring a relevant and broad perspective to help solve your problems.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

With increasing labor costs, new regulations coming every day, and new farming and wine making technologies and techniques available, mergers, acquisitions, divergers, and organization changes, it doesn’t take long for processes to become inefficient.

With a methodology based on Lean, we can help you implement a program and culture of Continuous Improvement across your operations. Our goal is to help your teams work safer, better and do what they do well, easier.

JD EDWARDS

Sick of talking to consultants who don’t know a grape from an olive, veraison from bud-break, pre-emergent from post-emergent, brix from acid? Are your teams tired of explaining that no, farming and winemaking aren’t manufacturing processes, they have variable and changing inputs, often outside of their control, and the outcomes can vary day-by-day, let alone year by year. We know wine and agriculture and we know JD Edwards; let us help you implement JDE the right way, the first time.

WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE? OUR APPROACH

We are not system implementers. We are solution implementers dedicated solely to serving Wine and Agriculture.

We deliver solutions that are grounded in people, processes and systems. Everything we do is anchored in understanding these three aspects of your business in order to design and implement the solutions you need to solve your business problems.

We recognize that any project is actually a change initiative, and that success requires a strategy to manage the change, minimizing the risks and maximizing the benefits.

We know how to ask the questions so you can better understand the problem you are trying to solve as well as your options.

Standard Work and Business Processes during Abnormal Times

Standard Work All farms and wineries follow some form of “Standard Work”. They have at least some documented processes or system controls (purchases and expense

The Recession is Coming

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Azmera Helps Bell-Carter Streamline Operations Using JD Edwards Grower Management Software

Background Bell-Carter’s Field Department was relying on a 20-year-old home-grown system to track Growers, Orchards, Varieties, and Grower payments. Olive Growers are paid based on

What Customers are saying.

"Azmera is one of the few Consulting firms I have ever worked with who actually understands and gets how agriculture works.

Azmera's knowledge of how crops move from the farm to the processor enabled Azmera to very quickly create a high-level design that met our unique needs.

With only three months before harvest Azmera was able to convert that design into a working Grower System that streamlined our operations with virtually no impact to our business or growers. With Azmera we were able to spend valuable time discussing and creating a system that met our needs rather than educating them about how the agriculture system works."

Cody McCoy, Field Manager

Bell-Carter Foods

What Customers are saying.

"Azmera continues to exceed our expectations resulting in us turning to them on more than one occasion to help with various special projects.

Our first project with Azmera was during the tail end of an ERP implementation. In addition to helping with project management, process mapping and training, they were able to refocus our internal implementation team and vendor to get our project and system back on track, helping to regain the lost confidence of our employees from the back office to the customer facing tasting rooms.

Our second project was at the front end of a new Business Intelligence tool implementation to help us get off to a great start when we were lacking internal project management capacity. Azmera provided project and vendor management along with business analysis expertise and guidance and successfully trained and transitioned those responsibilities to internal resources when capacity freed up.

I would highly recommend Azmera without hesitation."

Shannon McLaren

As CFO Crimson Wine Group, Now CFO Huneeus Vintners

Leadership Team

Phil Bourke

MBA - President

After growing up on a 1,000 acre wheat, sheep and cattle farm in Australia, Phil pursued a career in technology that exposed him to mining, banking and utilities industries before landing at Foster’s Group in 2001.

Maggie Huffman

MA - Vice President of Solution Delivery

Maggie grew up in Sonoma, in the heart of Northern California wine country. She began her career in the wine industry at Robert Mondavi Winery, in the Winemaking and Production areas.

Matt Horak

Director of Technology Services

A Texas native, Matt is a systems analyst and technical architect with over 15 years of implementation and development experience working with clients in multiple industries to implement ERP and Supply Chain systems, web applications and interfaces.

Ward Wilson

Director of Operations

Ward had a 23 year career with Agilent Technologies (formerly part of Hewlett Packard) Solution and Application Management and Development before working on the grower and blend implementation at Treasury Wine Estates, with a focus on the grower pricing configuration and execution.