CINCH Customer Documentation

CINCH 18.55 - Product Announcement

Released on: October 21, 2022

Products Involved

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

  • CINCH Document Exchange (CINCHX)

Highlights

  • Improved data sharing and document exchange capabilities via CINCHX.

  • New Archive capabilities to improve search and reporting performance for Process Manufacturing and
    Long Short.

  • New DPR Credit Sales Separation functionality to allow for Iowa’s Grain Dealer licensing requirements.

  • New Customer/Vendor Combiner and Modifier is now compatible with CINCH.

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

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

New Features and Benefits CINCH 18.55

Below are the highlights found in CINCH 18.55 along with the related benefits.

 

Module

New Feature/Enhancement

Benefits

Module

New Feature/Enhancement

Benefits

CINCHX

 

  • AgXML 4.0 changes including:

    • Sales Contract Import and Export (CIN-6593)

    • Purchase Contract Import (CIN-5786) and Purchase Contract Price Import (CIN-6479)

    • Purchase Load Import (CIN-5090)

  • The oneWeigthLoad2Tkt Export now supports the Port Type of FTP. In the past it only supported File Share. Now, it not only picks up a sent conversion file, from an FTP site, it can also push the conversion file to a received location within an FTP site. (CIN-6414)

  • Minimize the time and effort to capture and update information from other sources, including Purchase Contract Price Imports and increase your ability to enforce your business rules upon import.

 

 

  • Increase the flexibility of how to share load orders with the oneWeigh scale automation system.

Grain

Load Reassignment - Add ability to Select All (instead of having to mark each individual load) to reassign. The window is now wider and has a check box next to the 'Select' on the scroll window column header to mark/unmark all the loads displayed on the scroll window. Based on the new checkbox, it calculates and displays:

  • Count of selected load

  • Total/Sum of all selected load quantity

  • Total/Sum of all selected load gross quantity total. (CIN-5399)

Reduce time and effort to select and reassign loads. The feature supports both loads WITH contracts and loads with NO contracts.

 

 

Company Data Archive* has been enhanced to archive CINCH Process Manufacturing and Long Short information. (CIN-5141)

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.

Document Utility has been updated to allow the deletion of posted Sales Contracts. (CIN-4106)

  • Minimize time and effort to clean up a posted contract that had no loads or shipments tied to it. without needing to go through the under-fill process.

  • Maximize accuracy of obsolete contracts from all inquiries, reports and positions.

Lien Holder Imports

  • Updated with a new setting called Ignore Expired and the MN import has been updated to use the expiration date from the file. (CIN-6251)

  • South Dakota lien holder details can now be imported via the Lien Holder Import window. (CIN-6250) 

 

 

  • Maximize the ability to exclude liens that have termination dates that are in the past.

  • Minimize time and effort when importing South Dakota lien holders.

The Purchase Contract Mass Roll window allows users to do either a Quantity Roll or a Price Roll. In this release you now have the ability to do both and you now have the option to enter a ticker when performing Quantity Rolls. You can also conduct Price Rolls on the additional Contract Types of Futures Fixed and Other. (CIN-5098)

Reduce time and effort to do price roll for Futures Fixed (HTA) contracts. Maximize the accuracy rolling prices for Futures Fixed (HTA) contracts.

A validation has been placed on the Purchase Load Order Entry window to indicate when a loads quantity exceeds its contract quantity. (CIN-5090)

Restrict ability to schedule loads that will exceed contract limits.

The Purchase Contracts and Sales Contract E-mail Options, within the CINCH Customer E-mail Options and CINCH Vendor E-mail Options windows, have been updated to email not only the Purchase and Sales Contracts but the following documents as well: Purchase Contract Price Confirmation, Purchase/Sales Contract Amendment. (CIN-4666)

Minimize time and effort by emailing contract price confirmations and amendments directly from CINCH.

The line deletion function on the Sales Contract Sub-Items window has been replaced. Addresses NOT marked to Exclude Sales Contract Adds can NOT be deleted. Addresses marked to Exclude Sales Contract Adds CAN be deleted. (CIN-5921)

Save time and effort by setting up which ship to addresses will default into sales contract sub items with flexibility to override the default.

 

A Deferred checkbox has been added to the Settlement Sweep Entry window allowing the user to sweep multiple deferred assemblies/contracts more efficiently. (CIN-4107)

Complete multiple deferred settlements at one time to save time.

The Shipment Customer Switch window will now remain open once a switch has been processed. The OK button has been replaced with a Process button to accommodate this change. (CIN-4760)

Add ease of entry by processing multiple shipment customer switches before closing the window.

DPR - Credit Sales Separations for purchase contacts that are unpriced/un-signed and have delivered quantities. Quantities will appear within the DPR as Storage rather than in Company Owned (Unpriced). Once the purchase contract is signed or is priced, the system will move the delivered quantities from Storage to Company Owned (Unpriced/Priced). It is recommended that the company in which you turn this function on not have a Warehouse Storage License and it should reside within the State of Iowa (IA). (CIN-5538)

  • Reduce effort to comply with Iowa’s Grain Dealer’s Licensing requirements using the DPR in CINCH.

  • Maximize the ability to comply with contract signature regulations.

  • Reduce time and effort to track signatures on Basis, Price Later and other upriced contracts.

Other

CINCH has been updated to work with Microsoft Dynamics GP’s Customer/Vendor Combiner and Modifier. (CIN-5112 & CIN-5182)

Reduce effort in managing customer/vendor accounts.

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

Learn More

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Schedule your upgrade:

Contact the Greenstone Customer Support team at mysupport@culturatech.com or 800-366-2474 (Press 1 for Greenstone, and 3 for CINCH) at least 2 weeks before your desired upgrade date.

News You Can Use

  • The next release of CINCH (18.56) is planned for early to mid-December 2022. Planned scope includes the GP Year-End Update.

 

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