Cinch Seed^TM

Today's seed marketplace is an extremely competitive one. In order for your agribusiness to get ahead and stay ahead, you need to have a solid information management solution designed specifically for your needs. Cinch Seed^TM is your solution.

Order/Invoice Entry: Support Credit Limit (warnings and overrides) that include user-configurable Bookings, Orders, and Accounts/Receivable balance. The system Supports Fixed Date Payment Terms, and the “if paid by and deduct” feature. A method of flagging invoice (or order) line items (free product, promotional items, etc.). Transfer an invoice from dealer A to dealer B.

Lot Number Functionality: Put a lot number on hold. In the Lot Quality Tracking feature you can track user-defined lot quality information such as germination and composition. This information is available at the time of lot selection. Order entry or load staging can be printed on an inventory report. A special inquiry screen displays available lots. Support Pure Live Seed (PLS) and Thousand Seed (Ksd) Calculations (UofM).

More Features of Cinch Seed
• Splits: Split an invoice between one or more customers with each customer getting their share of the invoice and Accounts/Receivable obligation. Odd dollar amounts can be designated or alternated between accounts.
  Allow ease of billing all split accounts separately with Split Billing. No matter how your customers require their billing, you can accommodate them using the Split Billings feature. Split code exceptions can be set up to include or exclude certain items and class(es) or define percentages by items and class(es) per account. Split returns are handled in a similar manner as Split Invoices.
• Order/Invoice Entry: Track a prospect’s account profile separate from your customer master while allowing ease of transferring information once they become a customer.
• Seed Blending: Blend seed and come up with a blended inventory item and lot analysis. Print seed lot tags.
• Advanced Sales Order Processing: Include Load Staging and Order Completion.
  Load Staging will allow users to maximize shipments by selecting the order/items and staging trucks loads.
• Purchase Contract: Enter Purchase Contracts by Single Item, Multiple Delivery, or Multiple Prices per Delivery.
  Contract for product of a number of acres of an item.
  Update the estimated yield as the season progresses. Acres X est. yield = Contract Qty.
• Composite Weights/Grades: Take samples from many loads, mixed together, tested and applied to each ticket.
• General Ledger: Track sales by Company, Region, or Branch by using General Ledger account based on Branch.
  Track wholesale and retail sales distribution through separate GL account distribution.
• Integration--Integrate to Croplan Genetics Soar 21^SM, Dow Mycogen M-Link^TM.
  Automate order transfer to Syngenta® Seeds and Monsanto®.
  Use the .NET platform to Support XML communication.
• Prepayments: Flag inventory allocation for Prepaid Items to either allocate or keep a separate “Prepaid Status.”
  Set up prepayment policies to accept customer prepays by item, category, general account or by the order.
  Allow for easy changes in Class and Item Prepays.
  Allow for ease of transferring prepay from within a customer’s account.
• Reports/Inquiries: Improve decision making by eliminating time-consuming reports with extensive drill down capabilities. The system also allows access to anytime information across your CINCH solution.
  List all customers with prepay dollars, their current balance, and the prepay balance in all of the four prepay statuses (open, class, item, order).
  Create Daily position report for warehouse locations. Incorporate Long and Short reports with Purchase contracts, Sales contracts and Futures Contracts.
• Security: Apply security restrictions with ease and flexibility using a single browser-type interface that gives you complete control over form, window, field, and report access.
  Assign security settings to an individual user and selectively apply those settings to an overall class or to individual users.
  Locate information quickly when access is denied for a window or report, and grant temporary or permanent access without needing to change the login user.
  Provide critical business information with tight security down to the field level or as wide open as your entire company. In addition, there is an on-going time, date, and user log.
  View only certain branches’ data. Customers are assigned to a primary Branch code.
• Smartlist: Create sophisticated queries instantly to find detailed customer, vendor, general ledger, inventory, employee, and salesperson information.
  Update spreadsheets quickly or create mailing lists for sales and marketing initiatives with a single click to import queries into Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
  Share saved queries with others in the organization.