AGRIS Customer Documentation

17.4.0 Product Announcement


Product Announcement: AGRIS™ Product Suite 17.4.0 is Available!


September 29, 2017

WHAT PRODUCTS ARE INVOLVED?

AGRIS™, AgroGuide™ and oneWeigh™ systems

WHAT ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS?

  • Enhanced data capture and retrieval capabilities for easier regulatory compliance. 

  • Integration improvements to reduce the effort updating farm and field information.

  • Usability improvements that simplify Accounts Receivable payment applications and AgroGuide formulation and blending processes.

  • Reporting improvements in Patronage and the ability to easily generate mailing labels from a CSV file.


WHAT ARE SOME OF THE NEW FEATURES AND BENEFITS?

Below are a few of the highlights found in AGRIS 17.4.0.  A ReadMe document is available for a full list of the changes.

Package

New Feature / Enhancement

Benefits

Accounts Payable (ACP)

  • Disbursement processing - display the lien holder name like it does in the grain check settlement screen
  • Stock Addition Vouchers now allow 36 user-defined, searchable remark fields (similar to A/R Invoices)
  • Reduce time spent typing information that may not be necessary. Clarify the information before the printing process. 
  • Improve flexibility to capture and communicate more information about Stock Addition Vouchers for later use.
Accounts Receivable (ACR)
  • Various Improvements to the Standard Advanced Report - Open Prepayments by product category (bar chart)
  • New "Auto Apply" button for payment of oldest invoices (by due date) and other payment application enhancements
  • Quickly understand prepays by Product Category and provide a customer with a recap of open prepayments.


  • Reduce time and effort to select invoices based on due date order
AgroGuide (AGY)New "EasyBlend" Formulation tab

Are you and your Agronomy team looking for a way to spend less time in the office creating blends and more time in the field working with the growers?  Then AgroGuide the EasyBlend is the option for you!

  • Minimize effort to see the most important items together on one formulation screen. 
  • Reduce time to create and adjust formulations.
  • Result in more time for decision making.
  • Decrease movements (keyboard strokes/mouse clicks) to see and review a blend in process. 
Custom File Translation (CFT)CFT AGRIS Web Service - AgSync Advanced Synchronization with Agronomy Integration Service*

Need to improve the efficiency of your Agronomists and back-office invoicing personnel by reducing data entry tasks?

You can now automatically synchronize Farm and Field Descriptions, Acres, Invoice Split information as well as other primary information as the changes are entered in either AgroGuide or AgSync. 

Commodity (GRN)

Shipments - Apply Tickets from Hold - Auto applying tickets from hold now provides an option to apply any bushels left after contract is filled back to the hold position

Reduce keystrokes to apply to the correct customer when managing ticket splits and/or applying to a related split relationship's contract. 

Inventory (INV)

Veterinarian Feed Directive: Maintain prescriptions and history for 2 years on certain animal medicines sold across counter or mixed into feed

Reduce time and effort to capture and retrieve information pertaining to restricted use products including animal medication license and prescription information.

Name & Address (NAM)Create Name Address Labels from a CSV file Reduce time and effort to create a list of names and addresses in order to promote offerings and better communicate with customers.
Patronage (PAT)
  • CSV Spreadsheet of Purchase/Sales Activity includes more Name/Address information
  • New CSV Spreadsheet of Stock/Equity Balances with Name / Address information
  • Minimize effort and time to include information about the customer on the report. 
  • Reduce time spent exporting information to tools like Excel in order to join and display Name information on the report.

* = 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 "17.4.0" and select "AGRIS 17.4.0 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 next AGRIS release will be 18.1.0 with a focus on regulatory issues, including processing of 1099 and W-2 forms for the 2017 tax year.  It is planned for early January, 2018.
  • 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.



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