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Streamlining your agriculture value chain
Simplify your agriculture supply chain in one solution specifically designed for agriculture. Manage origination and processing data seamlessly for an accurate position—from farm to fork. Agtech accounts for all activity in real-time so you can make faster and better decisions.
Improve decision making with Agtech
Unpredictable weather, supply chain disruptions, and other unforeseeable circumstances make today’s agricultural marketplace volatile. Using a robust agriculture solution is essential for your business’ profitability. Clear visibility into your organization’s positions and risks leads to smarter and more informed decisions. Around the world, companies that buy, sell, warehouse, or process commodities rely on Agtech to provide complete control and oversight of the entire product lifecycle.
Increase profitability
Visualize risk
Centralize systems
Reduce errors
Simplify product lifecycle
Digitalize farmer communications
Learn more about Agtech physical commodities trading software
With ION’s Agtech, manage your agricultural product lifecycle from origination to manufacturing in real-time so you can make faster and better decisions.
Key features
Translate risks into opportunities
Accurately capture position data for physical inventory, contracts, futures, and options.
View overall risk exposure from all physical and financial transactions.
Validate position balances with diagnostics and reconciliation programs.
Simplify your complex supply chain
Address the requirements of grain, commodity ingredients, and non-commodities in a single integrated solution.
Examine each transaction and drill down into individual ticket data for on-site and offsite inventory.
Analyze sales data by product, customer, sales representative trader, and product group.
Organize warehouse management
Reflect contract changes, ticket entry, sales order processing, and purchase order receiving instantly.
Assign contract releases to purchases, sales, and direct ship orders.
Assign bins for certain commodities and track grade details.
Unify front and back office with full transparency into financials
Gain efficiencies with your AR, AP, and inventory subledgers in the same system as your contracts and tickets.
Achieve better business visibility by separating your P&L by location, currency, and commodity.
Optimize your mark-to-market reporting for physical trades, derivatives, and inventory.
Streamline your production processes with formula-based manufacturing
Calculate manufacturing based on the market cost of ingredients.
Capture formulas and recipes to compute production, by-products, and scraps.
Determine requirements for production, trading, and contracting using demand and sales forecasting tools.
Enhance your solution with optional value-added modules
Agtech’s front-to-back solution provides complete control and oversight of the entire product lifecycle. Unlike other multi-commodity offerings, Agtech is specifically designed for agricultural markets with a fully integrated web portal and enriched document tools. Better yet, it’s available on the ION Cloud, which can lead to big savings.
Frontier portal
Build loyalty and deepen relationships with your customers through real-time access to their contracts, tickets, and settlement data on their mobile devices. Quickly communicate changes in market bids and accept customer offers directly in Agtech.
Advanced shipment manager for containers
Improve control and visibility of export sales transactions with an independent dashboard view. Generate custom forms while managing incoming documents with built-in document management.
Document designer
Develop customized contract, ticket, and invoice documents to enhance your communication with your counterparties. Provide complete document information with access to miscellaneous fields, including lots and certifications.
ION Cloud
Lower your total cost of ownership and modernize your technology to optimize your operations and empower your business. Secure your data with ION’s multi-layered, trusted security stack.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the main uses of Agtech?
Agtech is a complete trading, risk management, merchandising, and accounting solution for any company buying, selling, warehousing, merchandising, or transforming agricultural commodities into finished products, co-products, and by-products for distribution and sale.
How can Agtech empower me to make better business decisions?
With Agtech, you get real-time visibility into positions and inventory levels across commodities, in storage or transit, at all locations. With this data on hand when you need it, you can make more informed decisions. Agtech captures deals and tracks movements that impact inventory at each staging point. This means you can minimize the risk of supplies not being available at the right place at the right time, while avoiding issues around supply delays, substitutions, and penalties.
Latest Commodities awards
Energy Risk Awards 2023
Energy Risk Awards 2023
Energy Risk Awards 2023
Energy Risk Awards 2023
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