Cepaos + AWRI Tools, Complementary, not competitive

Cepaos and AWRI Tools work together for your Australian winery

A fair, honest framing. AWRI Tools (Glen Osmond, South Australia) is the australian wine research institute toolkit, research, reference and analysis, an industry-owned, member-funded body that is the authoritative reference for Australian wine. Cepaos is a winery ERP. Most professional wineries use both: AWRI Affirm certifies the analysis, Cepaos manages the rest of the business and stores those certifications on the lot timeline.

How they meet

Where Cepaos and AWRI Tools overlap

AWRI sets the methods and the reference data. Cepaos respects those methods and ingests AWRI Affirm certifications, sensorial scoring and fault-detection metadata as structured fields on the lot record so they travel with the wine through every blend and movement.

Authoritative reference for wine chemistry and sensorial assessment
AWRI-aligned analysis methods and standards
Varietal characteristic and fault-detection vocabularies
Integration-friendly outputs (certificate IDs, sensorial scores, reports)
Recognition of Australian Geographical Indications in records

Roles Compared

What each provider does particularly well

Cepaos strengths (winery ERP)

Winery ERP across cellar, commercial, finance and compliance
Wine Australia Label Integrity Programme (LIP) native
65+ Australian GI Register validator (Barossa, McLaren Vale, Margaret River, Tasmania)
WET Producer Rebate ledger with quarterly BAS automation
PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 (AU-NZ specialisation) outbound + inbound
Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 2 reporting to the ATO
Australian Privacy Principles (APP 1-13) compliance posture
Multi-market export across 19 native locales
Cellar door + DTC + wine club + B2B commerce in one platform
Captures AWRI Affirm certifications and sensorial scoring on lot records

AWRI Tools strengths (research and reference)

Industry-owned, member-funded research body, the authoritative AU reference
Gold-standard reference data on AU wine chemistry, varieties and faults
AWRI Affirm certified-laboratory programme for accredited analysis
AWRI Helpdesk providing direct technical advice to producers
Active sensorial panels and varietal characteristic research
Mandatory link for industry-funded R&D access and grants
Authoritative fault-detection methods recognised across the industry

Decision Guide

When to lean on each provider

Lean on AWRI Tools for

You need authoritative research, sensorial assessment or fault-detection guidance
Your lab needs AWRI Affirm certification to formalise its outputs
You need access to industry-funded R&D, AWRI Helpdesk or technical support
Producing reference material for export markets or industry submissions

Lean on Cepaos for

You need a winery ERP, AWRI Tools is research and reference, not an ERP
Wine Australia LIP, WET, BAS, PEPPOL, APP, STP all in one platform
Cellar door, DTC and wine club commerce integrated with inventory
Multi-market export documentation (EU, UK, US, LATAM, NZ, ZA)
Operating across multiple vineyards or entities with consolidated reporting

Detailed Comparison

16 responsibilities compared

This table maps which provider owns each responsibility for a typical Australian winery. AWRI owns the research, reference data and Affirm certification programme; Cepaos owns the surrounding ERP and consumes AWRI outputs as structured lot-level fields.

Responsibility	Cepaos	AWRI Tools	Notes
Authoritative AU wine research and reference data	No	Yes	Use AWRI as the source of truth
AWRI Affirm certified-laboratory programme	No	Yes
AWRI Helpdesk technical support	No	Yes
Sensorial panels and varietal characteristic research	No	Yes
Captures AWRI Affirm certifications on the lot record	Yes	Partial	Cepaos stores certificate IDs and metadata as structured fields
Captures AWRI sensorial scoring as structured data	Yes	Partial
Wine Australia Label Integrity Programme (LIP)	Yes	No
65+ AU GI Register validator	Yes	No
WET Producer Rebate ledger + quarterly BAS	Yes	No
PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 (AU-NZ specialisation)	Yes	No
Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 2	Yes	No
Australian Privacy Principles (APP 1-13)	Yes	Partial
Cellar door commerce + DTC + wine club	Yes	No
Cellar operations (crush, fermentation, additions, racking)	Yes	No
Multi-market export documentation	Yes	No
Multi-entity consolidation	Yes	No

Standard professional setup

This is the canonical Australian wine-industry stack: AWRI for research, reference and Affirm certification of your analysis; Cepaos for everything else, cellar operations, compliance, commerce, finance, exports. Cepaos imports AWRI sensorial scoring and Affirm certifications as data fields on the lot record so the research context follows the wine.

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Comparison reflects publicly available information as of June 2026. Submit corrections via legal@cepaos.com , Cepaos updates the comparison within 5 business days.