Business reporting and effective dashboards help growers and business owners yield more return from their software investments.

Growers use a variety of back end systems for their ERP. Numerous larger growers in the US have chosen Sage/X3 as their software for inventory, accounting, sales, production and other aspects of tracking their operations. Other use more bespoke systems like GrowPoint. Other growers use other systems and some may even had their own custom system.

Data is Becoming the New Raw Material of Business

Business software (ERP) houses integrated datasets for accounting, finance, productions, operations, planning, procurement, sales, customer service, and many more. This type of data integration is advantageous for a business, but it makes it difficult to identify all the interdependencies of data points, what to track, how to visualize the data, and even make sense of the data available at disposal.

Imagine a spider web of data:

As you can imagine, this enormous data web, which will keep growing bigger and bigger, has great potential to empower users and owners to make educated business decisions contributing to organizational performance, but presents huge complexities in data analysis and reporting to use the data to its full potential.

How Can AGS Business Analytics Improve Your Operation?

Advanced Grower Solutions – AGS, brings in competency and experience with highly complex databases and technical capabilities to build new powerful operational reports, business reports, and dashboards and also append any existing canned reports in the system for better and purposeful use.

What Has AGS Already Custom Built for Growers to Improve Their Data?

• Over 100 SQL Query reports that can be viewed in Sage X3 web interface or can be downloaded to excel for any further analysis. Some use cases:
  • Production Plan reports.
  • Purchase Orders reports.
  • Sales Orders reports.
  • Inventory reports.
  • Product Availability reports.
  • Standard Cost reports.
  • GL Balance reports.
  • Margin and Revenue reports, etc.

• The AGS team has provided Hundreds of ad-hoc queries for specific business needs and analytical requests requiring data pull from GrowPoint, Sage X3 or other customer or Legacy systems using SQL, Python, Excel, VBA, and other data tools. Some use cases:
  • Rolling 12 months production and sales.
  • Rolling 12 months margin analysis.
  • Year over year production and sales performance.
  • Master data reconciliation.
• The AGS Team has designed and implemented many Power BI business dashboards and reports, which requires a unique skillset of data mining and aggregation, data modeling, and data collection from one or multiple sources. Same use cases:
  • Plan vs Actuals – Sales, comparative year over year and be drilled down to week over week.
  • Plan vs Actuals – Production, comparative year over year and be drilled down to week over week.
  • Labor budget – Labor hours and dollar spend budget based on the sales and production plan.
  • Space plan – Inventory space requirements based on sales and production plan.
  • Expected product availability based to current inventory, compared to the sales plan.
  • Vendor scorecard – Ranking of suppliers based on orders and receipts for specific product categories on cost, delivery accuracy, etc.

Improving Grower Software ROI

With growers increasing investment in ERP technologies, there is an inherent need for Business Intelligence and Reporting to yield a full return on that investment.

Advanced Grower Solutions can help your operation in using the highly complex data of Sage X3 to its full potential and make impactful decisions for your business.

Contact us today for more information about how the AGS team can help you with better data insight.