The Advanced Grower Solutions Sage X3 offerings complement the work your Sage X3 reseller provides. Our unique software development and data analytics experience allows our team to complement your existing reseller and internal team with new capabilities in key areas that are very time consuming and error prone without the proper tools and experience.

Sage X3 Reports, Database Queries and Views

Sage X3 comes with some included reports but our experience with clients shows that for the Sage X3 product to be useful and start to generate a return on investment there are hundreds of reports a grower needs that don’t come with the system.

Sometimes getting the right report in a complex system like Sage X3 takes a lot of time and work and the right knowledge. Advanced Grower Solutions has completed over 195 different reports, database views, queries, and defined Sage X3 front end reports to help our Sage X3 and other clients have better and faster visibility to what is inside their Sage X3 systems.

Our reporting portfolio includes reporting for:

• Foundational data setup and audit (Items, Raw Materials, Bill of Materials, Routings, UOM etc.)
• Manufacturing (Work orders, production, and requirements, variances etc.)
• Shipping (picking, deliveries, sales order, loads etc.)
• Procurement (Purchase orders, requirements and dates, receipts, and audits)
• Inventory (Stock and WIP Counts, Value, Ready to sell, availability, item inquires etc.)
• Accounting (Values, invoices, AR, AP, Costing and open documents etc.)
• EDI reports
• And more…

The Sage X3 Database views can be customized and published in your system then are used to create reports in Sage X3, publish to other BI tools like Microsoft Power BI or SEI.

These reports can be customized and deployed for your SageX3 installation and your operation much faster and with less expense that starting from scratch and paying developers to create everything from scratch. This helps growers achieve faster return and benefit from their Sage X3 investments.

With our existing body of work and experience we can also deploy fully new custom reports for your Sage X3 instance faster and at less expense than other methods.

Analytical Business Intelligence Dashboards and Views

Sometimes a tabular data report is not enough to see problem trends or opportunities. That is where analytical dashboards can help growers with higher level views of their operations.

Advanced Grower Solutions has produced hundreds of different analytical views and business intelligence views to help growers better see trends and analysis for:

• Production plan and variances
• Production labor budgets and metrics
• Inventory status
• Availability and ready to sell
• Sales plan and sales results
• Shipping, loads, racks and other types of tracking
• Raw material stats
• Forecasts of sales, raw material need and sales revenue and availability
• Space Forecasting Analysis
• And a lot more…

The small investment to get clear reporting and dashboards repays you quickly with better information and faster decisions without the delay for your staff to created complicated reports over and over again.

These existing dashboard frameworks can be deployed using your existing Office 365 setup using PowerBI and customized for your operation much faster and with less expense that using existing tools and building them from scratch.

Sage X3 Data and Upload Templates

For bulk data entry the Sage X3 front-end screens can be slow and challenging.  Sage X3 has sophisticated upload capability. However, It can be a struggle with getting bulk data into formats suitable for upload to Sage. For example, uploading bulk purchase orders or sales orders from external systems, new Items, or Bill of Materials or price lists or say your accounting team needs to upload journal entries.

Advanced Grower Solutions has created many simple Excel templates that help prepare bulk data for import to SageX3. This saves your staff time and manual data through the Sage X3 front end which can be slow. It allows the staff to work quickly in a familiar setting, excel and provides the capability to transform the data into the necessary format for Sage X3 to import and then use. Advanced Grower Solutions has tools to help with these data uploads for:

• Sage X3 Item Setup
• Sage X3 Manufactured item bill of materials
• Sage X3 Sales and Purchase Price List
• Sage X3 Sales orders and purchase order imports
• Bulk inventory transactions
• Manual Journal Entry and Inter-company journal entry
• Stock movements
• Payment imports
• Non-PO Supplier invoice upload
• And more…

With this base of existing code and our experience, we can deploy even new custom builds for your Sage X3 implementation quickly and at less cost than other methods.

Data Automation and Large-Scale Data Conversion Tools

Whether it’s a large go-live data conversion or ongoing operation data maintenance and generation we have seriously powerful data automation tools that can be customized and deployed for your operation quickly so that you can get past the tedious work of conversions and uploads and onto the real work of using the system to improve your operation.

Our Sage X3 bulk data and data automation tools include:

• Grow Time Profiles conversion and generation
• Sage X3 Routing record generation
• Sage X3 Work Order Generation – if you are using an external planning system (even excel)
• Sage X3 Purchase Order generation – if you have external plan details and want to bulk import purchase orders
• Sage X3 Sales Order generation – if you have replenishment reports that you want to turn into sales orders for import
• Sage X3 Manufacturing BOM Cost Roll Automation – if you are using Costing in sage this can automate and greatly speed up the process of re-building Sage X3 costing records.
• Item Setup Audits – we have several modules that help validate that all aspects of a manufactured item are setup within your parameters.
• And other key areas as well…

With our experience, tools and the existing capabilities of Sage X3 we can improve the automation of your data flows at less time and expense than other methods.

Training and Process Review and Improvement

Whether it’s creating a purchase order correctly, consuming work order raw materials in the right manner or handing a mis match on an invoice for AP many of the Sage X3 screens, while providing powerful features, can be confusing and hard to use to the less experienced employee.

To help transfer the correct knowledge and processes to employees we have produced over 80+ different training process documents which show step by step instructions for various work processes with clear screen shots within Sage X3. Our process documentation experience includes areas such as:

• Sage X3 purchase order processes
• Sage X3 receipt processes
• Sage X3 work order interactions and processes
• Sage X3 AP, AR, and invoicing processes
• Sage X3 inventory stock and work-in-progress interactions like moves and scraps and processes
• Sage X3 Sales orders and associated grower related operations like ready walks, picking, and load paperwork such as BOL to name a few.
• And many more…

These high-quality documents are used as training and on-boarding when new employees arrive. Then are also used as refreshers and reminders of what the process steps are if any of the employees get rusty from season to season.

Advanced Grower Solutions can work with your reseller and operations team to help map out and document your processes and provide high quality training materials that are easy to follow and can be used season after season for your employees. This helps improve quality and speed of transition for employees.

Contact Us to find out how Sage X3 Products and Services can help improve your operation.