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CINCH 18.52 - Product Announcement

CINCH Customer Documentation

CINCH 18.52 - Product Announcement

Released on: October 22, 2021

Products Involved

  • CINCH Agri-Suite - Grain, Sales, Seed, Miscellaneous

  • CINCH Document Exchange (CINCHX)

  • CINCH Patronage, CINCH Portal, CINCH Savings & Loan

Highlights

  • New Archive capabilities to improve search and reporting performance.

  • Various usability improvements to reduce time and effort to view, select, and process information.

  • Input changes to maximize the completeness and accuracy of information.

  • More consistency with GP and greater flexibility to use/tailor email functionality with CINCH documents.

  • Improved Integration capabilities for Tickets as well as Sales Shipment Invoicing of works orders from other systems.

New Features and Benefits

Below are a few of the highlights found in CINCH 18.52 along with the related benefits.

 

Module

New Feature/Enhancement

Benefits

Module

New Feature/Enhancement

Benefits

CINCHX

 

Changes to AgXML 4.0:

  • Direct Ship A (CIN-5132)

  • Ticket Import – Owner Records (CIN-5025)

  • Minimize the time and effort and maximize the accuracy of Load Order information on Tickets.

  • Better handle the ticket owner records when splitting of scale tickets. This eliminates the need to make manual adjustments making the entire ticket import process more efficient and less prone to errors.

Grain






Program Details > Accruals: new Accrual Date Ends On setting called "Priced Date" to stop calculating when the ticket(s) are priced (CIN-4248)

Provides better and more accurate calculations of price later fees (accrual calc method) by having the program detail calculation consider whether the 'Accrual Date Ends On' date is set to 'Price Date' and if so, use existing logic to enforce the rule on which data to include in the calculation.

Advances - Add the ability to "Include Discounts" similar to "Include Program Charges" (CIN-5034)

Reduce the likelihood that an advance amount will exceed the value of the contract by considering discounts and program charges.

Bulk Transfer Inquiry Zoom – Add Inventory Transfer & Adjust Transaction Numbers Fields (CIN-5238)

Minimize time and effort to understand Bulk Transfer information with the following additions to the Inquiry Zoom window with the ability to zoom on the fields to Inventory Transaction Inquiry:

  1. Transfer # = Inventory transfer out of the Origination site and into the In Transit site

  2. IT Adj Out # = Inventory Adjustment out of In Transit Site

  3. Dest Adj In # = Inventory Adjustment into Destination Site

Freight Distributions - ability to record freight as Cost of Goods by item (CIN-1897)

Facilitates gross margin analysis when contracts have freight as part of the contract price.

Purchase Contracts: (CIN-4741)

  • User Setup: new setting called “Retain Batch”

  • Entry: Un-Lock Price Notes for Futures Fixed & do not Retain Batch

  • Minimize time and effort and increase accuracy by using the Batch ID from the previous transactions.

  • Reduce time and effort to add pricing and delivery notes / comments during the creation of the contract.

Settlements by Customer Class Report - performance improvement (CIN-5378)

Minimize time to generate the Settlement by Customer Class report.

Settlement Void - prevent settlement void if there is NOT a check already issued for settlement (CIN-5164)

Maximize clarity and accuracy of settlement voids.

Sales

 

New Data Archive*: Ability to use Company Data Archive (CDA) by Professional Advantage (PA) to move historical records along with necessary master tables from your ‘live’ company to an ‘archive’, including: (CIN-3792)

  • Sales: Invoicing, Prepay, Shipment Invoicing

  • Transfers: Branch & Bulk

  • Related master tables

  • Related/companion inventory records

  • Maximize performance searching for CINCH information when many years of history exist.

  • Reduce time to search for and generate reports when many years of history exist.

Enhance Email's Word Template File Names to include Customer/Vendor ID and Document Date
(CIN-5162)

Reduce time and effort to save and find Word templates. Email attachments now include {CompanyName}{Customer/Vendor ID}{DocumentNumber}_{DocumentDate}. Example: USAG_AAA_SP101000312_30.09.2021.html.

Sales Shipment Invoicing - new Source IDs to support API integrations, including work orders from:

  • Agworld* (CIN-4714)

  • Kahler* (CIN-5040)

  • Reduce time and effort to post completed work orders from other systems into CINCH for invoicing

  • Increase the accuracy of CINCH invoices generated from completed work orders from other systems.

  • Maximize the timeliness and accuracy of fertilizer positions for inventory and risk management.

*For more information about this new feature, please contact your Greenstone Systems Account Manager or email GreenstoneSales@Culturatech.com.

Please visit the Greenstone Community for the:

Schedule your upgrade:

Contact the Greenstone Customer Support team at mysupport@culturatech.com or 800-366-2474 (Option 1, 2, 2) at least 2 weeks before your desired upgrade date.

News You Can Use

  • The next release of CINCH (18.53) is planned for early to mid-December 2021 for compatibility with the GP fall and year-end releases.

  • Be on the look-out for emails about the upcoming Customer Conference which is being planned for February 22-24, 2022!

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