AGRIS Customer Documentation

18.1.0 Product Announcement


Product Announcement: AGRIS™ Product Suite 18.1.0 is Available!


January 11, 2018


What PRODUCTS are involved?

AGRIS™, AgroGuide™ and oneWeigh™ systems

What are the HIGHLIGHTS?

  • Changes to comply with 2017 tax year 1099 and W-2 forms regulatory reporting requirement. 

  • AgroGuide performance improvement to reduce time updating changes to client and map information.

  • Ledger usability and reporting improvements that simplify understanding the balanced entry as well improved trend analysis.

  • Simplify reporting and auditing of Patronage processes, including a new routine to generate Per-Unit Retain transactions based on your choice of Gross, Value or Net calculation methodologies.


What are some of the NEW FEATURES and benefits?

Below are a few of the highlights found in AGRIS 18.1.0.  A ReadMe document is available for a full list of the changes.

Package

New Feature / Enhancement

Benefits

Accounts Payable (ACP) & AttachToo Document Management

New exception report to identify vouchers without AttachToo documents

  • Make sure vendor invoices are stored for each Stock Addition.  
  • Minimize time investigating attachment tasks that need to be completed.
  • Maximize control and the completeness of the document storage repository relating to corporate document retention policies.
Accounts Receivable (ACR)

Invoice - Ability to enter invoice remarks on manual invoices at the time of entry

  • Simplify and reduce keystrokes relating to remark entry before saving the invoice and thus improve your ability to communicate relevant information with the customer.
AgroGuide (AGY)Maps > Refreshing AgroGuide Tree and Maps - ability to manually refresh client information
  • Improve ability to make more changes to maps in less time.
  • Reduce time spent waiting for the "Refreshing AgroGuide Maps" process to complete.

Commodity (GRN)

Option for the ending storage date to be today's calendar date on Commodity calculation processes

Maximize flexibility to charge storage based on your business' rules.

Apply a Delayed Price (price later) contract to an existing Deferred Payment contract using the Deferred Payment contract price (ability to apply tickets on a delivery sheet from one contract to another)

  • Reduce time and effort to transfer one price later contract that expires to a replacement contract while retaining tickets applied to that contract.
  • Simplify moving tickets from one contract to another (in the case where the tickets were applied to the wrong contract).
  • Reduce effort to comply with grain dealer licensing regulations where price later contracts have terms requiring expiring contracts to be replaced with new contracts while retaining tickets.

Ledger (LDG)

  • Detailed Ledger - Drill directly into the balanced journal entry from detailed ledger
  • New Advanced Report - Multiple Period Income Statement
  • Reduce time and effort to view and understand the balanced transaction.
  • Reduce time and effort to understand how revenues and expenses are trending month-to-month
Patronage (PAT)



  • Save Patron Refund & Transaction Information (like AR Statement parameters)
  • Detailed Audit for Reversed Patronage Transactions
  • Patronage Rate per Unit - 3rd option added for "Dollars per unit"
  • Improve ability to record settings used and reduce time to understand the patronage refund settings.
  • Minimize time and effort to understand Patronage transactions, including voids and reversals
  • Improve flexibility and clarity when allocating larger dollar amount per unit categories (e.g., dollars per ton on fertilizer).

Patronage Account Balance Inquiry - Stock Credits now are validated when running "correct" option & purged transactions move to a new to audit table

Improve integrity and completeness of stock credit history.

New Per-Unit Retains Report (Gross, Value, Net) with ability to automatically post amounts as Patronage Transactions

  • Simplify the process of reporting per-unit retain amounts to the IRS. 
  • Improve the accuracy of the value based per-unit retain amounts for reporting to the IRS. 
  • Reduce time and effort to use and post desired Per-Unit Retain Allocations based on the desired method (Gross, Value, Net).
System (SYS)
  • Support the new Actian® Zen/PSQL™ v13 database engine
  • Extended Date Entry parameters for Beginning/Ending of Fiscal Year/Month/Quarter + or - number of months
  • Increase your options for deploying and running the system.
  • Increase flexibility to run report streams for documents with certain date ranges base on fiscal year.  Reduce time and effort managing date parameters on output.


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 "18.1.0" and select "AGRIS 18.1.0 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 18.2.0 with a focus on usability.  It is planned for April, 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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