Holograms, bottle and case coding with scan-based excise reporting, built to each state's excise rules and integrated with distillery packing lines.
Every excise adhesive label issued, applied, wasted or returned accounted for against a distillery indent.
Unique bottle codes printed and verified on high-speed lines without reducing filling output.
Depot, wholesaler and retail vend scans give the department movement evidence instead of declarations.
An end-to-end excise supply chain solution covering label issuance, production coding and aggregation, warehouse and retail movement, and the reconciliation reporting the department relies on.
Security label accounting is where most excise disputes start. We build issuance, indent and reconciliation control so every label printed can be traced to a distillery, a batch and a bottle.
Bottling lines run fast and do not tolerate stoppages. We integrate coding and vision at line speed, then build the case and shipper aggregation that makes depot scanning practical.
Duty follows movement, so movement has to be scanned rather than declared. We instrument despatch, depot receipt and vend issue with handheld and gate-level scanning tied to the transport permit.
The commissioner's office needs a defensible number and the public needs a way to check a bottle. We build both from the same code data, with enforcement alerts routed automatically.
Technology here is chosen for high-speed lines, security requirements and public verification at once, which rules out a single off-the-shelf answer.
Continuous inkjet, laser and print-and-apply systems synchronised to conveyor movement so coding keeps pace with bottling output at full speed.
Cameras grade every printed code and confirm hologram presence and position before the bottle is packed into a case.
Non-sequential, cryptographically generated codes held in a controlled vault, with issuance limits enforced per distillery, brand and label indent.
Handheld and smartphone scanning for depots, enforcement squads and consumers, designed to work over low-bandwidth mobile networks in the field.
Representative outcomes from excise supply chain deployments with departments and licensees. Figures below are indicative ranges and must be confirmed against your own baseline before publication.
Departments needing movement evidence and duty reconciliation across distilleries, depots and retail vends statewide.
Licensees bottling multiple brands and strengths across several lines under departmental supervision and label control.
Corporation and private depots receiving, storing and issuing cases to retail vends under permit control.
The measures agreed with the excise commissioner's office and with distillery operations heads before deployment, then tracked from the departmental dashboard.
Share of printed bottle codes verified as readable by the vision system at full bottling speed.
Target: >99.5%
How we get there: Engineered through coder selection, bottle handling design and lighting trials during the pilot.
Reduction in bottles per hour caused by adding coding, application and verification to an existing line.
Target: <3%
How we get there: Minimised by in-line integration design and trials on the actual bottling line before rollout.
Share of issued excise labels accounted for as applied, wasted, returned or held in stock.
Target: 100% accounted
How we get there: Enforced by serial range control from issuance through application to reconciliation.
Difference between duty computed from scanned movement and duty recorded through departmental returns.
Target: Within agreed tolerance
How we get there: Narrowed because despatch and depot receipt are scan-evidenced rather than self-declared.
Departmental deployments follow a proven sequence, starting on one distillery line before state-wide rollout.
We study your state excise policy, label formats, permit workflow, duty heads and reporting formats, and survey representative distilleries, depots and vends.
The code structure, hologram specification, aggregation hierarchy, hardware bill of materials and portal integration design are documented and approved before any procurement.
One line at one distillery runs live with depot scanning against agreed acceptance criteria, so read rates and output impact are proven on real production.
Remaining lines, depots and vends are onboarded, departmental and enforcement staff are trained, and the system moves into an agreed AMC with defined response times.
Why excise departments and distilleries choose an engineered system over a product licensed from another state's deployment.
Duty heads, label designs, permit types and return formats are held as configurable rules, so a policy amendment is a change request rather than a rebuild.
Coders, cameras, applicators and reject systems are supplied and integrated by us, and read rate and output impact are proven on your line during the pilot.
Every duty-relevant movement is backed by a scan with time, location and user, which is what makes reconciliation defensible in an audit or a dispute.
Architecture, role structures and reporting are designed for thousands of licensees and vends, with enforcement and consumer verification running on the same code base.
An excise track and trace system for liquor gives a state excise department and its licensees a code-based record of every bottle from production to sale. Excise labels or holograms are issued to distilleries against approved indents, a unique code is printed and verified on each bottle at the bottling line, bottles are aggregated into cases, and those cases are scanned at depot receipt and vend issue. Duty is reconciled against scanned movement, not declarations.
It is developed for your state. We are a custom solution development and systems integration company, and excise rules, label formats and reporting requirements vary state by state. Every deployment starts with a requirement study of the applicable excise policy.
Duty heads, label specifications, permit types, licence categories and return formats are held as configurable rules rather than hard-coded logic. A policy amendment is handled as a controlled configuration change under the support contract, with testing before go-live.
Yes. Inkjet and laser coders, print-and-apply units, vision cameras, reject systems, handheld scanners and depot gate scanning infrastructure are scoped, supplied, installed and integrated. We remain accountable for read rate and line output performance after installation.
The design target is minimal impact, and it is proven during the pilot on your actual line rather than promised. Coder positioning, camera placement and reject timing are engineered around the existing conveyor layout and filling speed.
Yes. We integrate with distillery ERP and production systems for batch, brand and despatch data, and with the state excise portal for indents, permits, returns and duty reporting, using whichever interfaces the department makes available.
A consumer scans the code on the bottle through a mobile application or web page and sees whether it is genuine, which brand and batch it belongs to, and the declared MRP. Suspicious scans are logged with location for enforcement.
Yes. On-premise deployment in a state or national data centre is common for excise projects, and private cloud and hybrid models are also supported. Data residency, backup, disaster recovery and access control follow the department’s IT policy.
A pilot on one bottling line with a linked depot is typically live within twelve to twenty weeks of requirement sign-off, depending on hardware lead times and approvals. State-wide rollout then proceeds in agreed phases.
Support runs under an agreed contract covering defined response times by severity, preventive maintenance of coding and scanning hardware, configuration changes when excise policy is amended, and training for new departmental staff.