AGRIS has the ability to communicate with Another Energy System.
This interface was designed to take lightweight fuel transactions and interface to AGRIS. It provides your team the ability to use another companies fuel dispatching system and effectivley have near real time integration for the following types of transactions.
- Stock Additions
- Bookings
- Paid Bookings (Prepays)
- Invoices
Further details of what this interface can do and its configuration is listed below. If your business has a unique requirement to interface to Another's functionality or if you use a different fuel system that needs to communicate near real time with AGRIS please contact your account manager for how the same technology can be used for your business.
Process and Approach Requirements
- Interface runs automatically to capture transactions ready to process.
- Provides links to original document numbers from the originating system.
- If a translation error occurs, AGRIS will notify the employee via email notification of the error.
- If a transaction errors it is "parked" and other transactions will process successfully.
Setup
- Ensure you have updated your AGRIS extended options to enable the
"Another Energy System" interface. - Under the Dataset Maintenance for the dataset enable the extended option for "Another Energy System"
- Change the user security to enable access for the new CFT option "Another Energy System"
- You can now navigate to the CFT option.
- Select Configuration from the menu.
- Now configure the following.
- The folder where the transactions will originate from
- The folder to store the backups of the original transactions prior to conversion
- (NOTE: Transactions that are recorded to the Backup Folder are not automatically deleted - contact your I.T. Department to discuss the best retention policy and backup requirements for your business)
- The name of the AGRIS import routine planed to used for the final import processing step.
- (NOTE: It is highly recommended to create a unique import routine for interfacing with "Another Energy System".)
- Email Address or Group Email Address planned to notify if a transaction failure occurs.
- Review and enable the transaction types planned to interface.
Message formats:
How do I know that I have the correct format for interfacing with ANES?
Another Energy System inbound files will use the naming convention ANENS_ORG_YYYYY_ZZZZZ_<guid>.xml where
- ANENS = five character integration acronym
- ORG = static value
- YYYYY = five character document type. Values are INVCE = invoice, ARPAY = payment, ARBKG = booking, and STOCK = purchase invoice
- ZZZZZ = variable length Agvance document reference
- <guid> = unique 36 character guid
- .xml = file extension
Related articles
The AGRIS 17.4.0 release has added:
AGS-3025 AgSync - Advanced Synchronization (new AIS feature--closed pilot in progress)
Need to save time executing critical business tasks? Want to make communicating new and changing farm and field information easier and more timely?
The Agronomy Integration Service (AIS) has been advanced to keep improving the efficiency of your Agronomists and Back office invoicing personnel by reducing data entry tasks.
Descriptions, Acres, Invoice Split information as well as other primary information can now be synchronized automatically as the changes are entered in either system.
Farm Synchronization -
- As a user creates or modifies a farm entity in AgSync the supporting information will also be updated in AGRIS.
- As a user creates or modifies a farm entity in AgroGuide the supporting information will also be updated in AgSync.
Field Synchronization -
- As a user creates or modifies a field entity in AgSync the supporting information will also be updated in AGRIS.
- As a user creates or modifies a field entity in AgroGuide the supporting information will also be updated in AgSync.
Agronomy Integration Service (AIS) is a synchronization service that integrates AgroGuide to your Agronomy team's other software solutions.
To find out more how or what AIS can do to integrate your teams work to save time and reduce risk, please contact Jacob Schwab (jacob.schwab@culturatech.com) for further information.