Product Announcement: AGRIS™ Product Suite 17.3.0 is Available!

July 13, 2017

WHAT PRODUCTS ARE INVOLVED?

AGRIS™, AgroGuide™ and oneWeigh™ systems

WHAT ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS?

Enhanced risk management capabilities relating to both credit / collections and grain positions
Integration improvements to other tools like Agworld
Usability Improvements in Commodity when utilizing Farms and Fields
Enhancements to the oneWeigh scale automation system, including the integration with the binSight binning, blending and traceability reporting system.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE NEW FEATURES AND BENEFITS?

Below are a few of the highlights found in AGRIS 17.3.0. A ReadMe document is available for a full list of the changes (click HERE).

Package	New Feature/Enhancement	Benefits
Accounts Payable (ACP)	Disbursements and Auto-Disbursement: Notes added when printing checks to inform user that the customer/vendor has an AR balance	Raise awareness of the AR balances before an AP check is sent to the vendor in order to: Minimize accounts receivable collection efforts with, and reduce cash out flows to, counter parties with accounts receivable balances. Minimize time and effort to investigate the vendor's unpaid invoice balance by displaying the information when processing disbursements.
Custom File Translation (CFT)	CFT AGRIS Web Service - Agworld* Integration Available	Need to improve the efficiency of your agronomists and improve your flexibility to integrate with other agronomy planning and scheduling tools? The CFT AGRIS Web Service combined with Greenstone's Agronomy Integration Service* ("AIS") now supports integration with Agworld's retail agronomist applications. Visit http://www.agworld.co/consultants/features for more information about Agworld.
Commodity (GRN)	Multiple Ship to's on a contract - Three display changes added.	Reduce keystrokes to apply to the correct customer when managing ticket splits and/or applying to a related split relationship's contract.
	Commodity code setup - Field added "Trading Limit" for reporting purpose	Improve the ability to enforce and understand compliance with risk management policies.
	Customer Status / Unpaid Delivery Sheets Report - New standard report shows Storage / Unpaid / Summary by customer including unpaid dollars	Reduce time to provide your customers / counter parties with priced quantity information.
	Add Farm and Field display to additional grids and forms	Reduce time and effort to Produce a Delivery Sheet for multiple tickets by displaying the Farm/Field on the tickets. Minimize effort and time to apply Apply From Storage with visible Farm and Field information. Streamline the Produce a Settlement process with making the Farm/Field and "first ticket number" as available to choose the delivery sheet(s) to settle
Inventory (INV) & System (SYS)	Inventory Activity Import - new field available for UOM on import file	Increase flexibility to import inventory transactions from other systems where the item stocking UOM may be different.
oneWeigh (ONE)	Usability and communication improvements, including better binSight, Message Board and Signature Pad integration	Simplify and improve efficiency of scale operations. Reduce effort to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

* = Available for an additional fee. Contact your Account Manager at 800-393-0075 or info@culturatech.com.

HOW CAN YOU GET IT?

Click HERE to see the prerequisites, highlights, technical information, and supporting software pertaining to this release, as well as the link to download it.

Not yet a member of the NEW Greenstone Community? Click http://go.culturatech.com/communities to register. Note: It may take up to 8 business hours for your request to process.

Once you are registered, click HERE or in the Search field type "17.3.0" and select "AGRIS 17.3.0 is Available".

The new Greenstone Community will also help you:

Manage support cases logged with Greenstone
Create new cases with the ability to indicate severity
Search knowledge base articles quickly
Interact with other Greenstone customers on topics important to you and your business
Find the latest news on the products you use (including our latest software releases)

NEED MORE HELP?

For assistance or additional information on installing the update, contact the Customer Experience team at mysupport@culturatech.com or 800-366-2474.

WANT MORE NEWS YOU CAN USE?

The ability to run the AGRIS system on the Microsoft SQL Server database is a reality!
- Interested in migrating to the Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) database engine in a phased manner? Click HERE to learn more. Or contact your Greenstone relationship manager to discuss how we can help you.
- Need to improve your ability to comply with corporate auditing / security policies and perform forensic analysis on who modified certain data and when? Click HERE to learn more about the Greenstone Audit project that is just beginning to run in pilot phase.
Testing and support of the AGRIS system on the PSQL v11 database engine ended July 1, 2016. Support of the AGRIS Product Suite running on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and PSQL v10 ended on July 14, 2015. Please contact your Account Manager (or call 800-393-0075 or email info@culturatech.com) to discuss your database upgrade options.
Maintenance and support for AGRIS V9.6.0 ended December 31, 2016.
The next AGRIS release is scheduled for mid-October, 2017.

AGRIS Customer Documentation

17.3.0 Product Announcement