Ames, IA -- September 26, 2005. E-Markets, Inc., the leader in delivering Supply Chain Management solutions for the agri-food industry, announces the availability of the latest release of CINCH Agri-Suite Version 6.0.

CINCH Agri-Suite, along with the Microsoft® Business Solutions Great Plains platform, offers outstanding financial tools that enhance visibility and control of your business health, resulting in more confidence and smarter decisions.

Some of the new features available in CINCH Agri-Suite Version 6.0 include:

• CINCH Agronomy^TM Integration Points – This includes customer split information, restructured pesticide licensing, inventory, etc.
• Enhancements to Discount Schedule Maintenance and Discount Detail Maintenance windows – New features have also been added to the Assembly Entry window that allows users to manually adjust discount amounts.
• Feed Mill Manager Integration – This includes integration points between Feed Mill Manager and CINCH Grain^TM.
• Enhancements to CINCH Grain – These include changes that were made to the Futures Entry, Load Shipment Detail Entry and Grain Supplier Lookup windows.
• CINCH Sales^TM Reports – New reports have been added for Sales Volume by Manufacturer Detail, Sales Volume by Manufacturer Summary, Sales by Ship to ID Detail and Sales by Ship to ID Summary.
• XML Sales – The CINCH XML Sales Export feature allows participating manufacturers to read XML documents exported based on Great Plains and CINCH Sales transactions.

The CINCH Agri-Suite is the only agribusiness solution that offers a complete integration to the Microsoft® Business Solutions Great Plains Edition Software and is customized specifically for grain elevators, fertilizer blenders, ag retailers, seed companies and grain processors.

E-Markets applications eliminate barriers between buyers and sellers; enable information sharing across the agrifood value chain, and streamline back office processes resulting in significant returns for its customers. The company offers the only complete supply chain solution for designed specifically for Agribusinesses from Agronomy Planning to Retail Accounting systems to web based transaction systems to integration hubs for Manufacturers. Several thousand grain elevators, ag retail centers, seed companies and grain processors throughout the United States and Canada are using E-Markets tools.

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Call 1-877-674-7419 ext 4 for more information about CINCH Grain.

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