Agri-Suite From Many to One. One View. One Source. One System.
About E-Markets The CINCH Agri-Suite uses extensive knowledge of agribusiness, accounting methods and information management to create innovative, industry-specifi c software systems that meet the unique demands of the agricultural and ethanol industries. CINCH is the only agribusiness solution that is customized specifically for Cooperatives, Grain Elevators, Fertilizer Blenders, Ag Retailers, Seed Companies and Grain Processors.
“Many of the reporting features we use to communicate with our sales force and their customers are built into CINCH, and those reports that aren’t can easily be created with the accurate information contained in the CINCH data tables.”
Joe Gill
Controller Nutra-Flo Company
CINCH Product Portfolio™ developers have been working on the product using the Microsoft DynamicsTM GP platform since 1992. Microsoft Dynamics GP provides a solid foundation for unifying processes. Its outstanding fi nancial tools enhance the visibility and control of your business health, resulting in more confi dent and smarter decisions. It’s cost-effective and reliable, delivered by a vast network of trusted service providers, and backed by extensive service and support. E-Markets is a pioneer in delivering e-commerce solutions to agriculture and the food industry. Founded in 1996, the company introduced the industry’s fi rst online grain production contracting system in 1997, the fi rst internet-based agricultural input ordering system in 1998, the fi rst internet-based risk management tool for the grain industry in 2000, and more recently, an internet-based Attribute E-XchangeSM trading management tool. E-Markets senior management team has more than 130 years of collective industry experience with familiar names from Agriculture and Technology companies such as Bayer Crop Sciences, Cargill, Farmland Industries, John Deere, Koch Industries, Pioneer Hybrid, Purina Mills and South Dakota Wheat Growers. A cornerstone of E-Markets’ success has been our ability to partner with our clients in designing and implementing web-based ordering and inventory management, contracting, and trading exchange solutions that fully meet the defi ned needs of our customers – on time and at a reasonable cost. To help our clients effectively integrate our solutions into their operations, E-Markets offers a complete range of Professional Services. We work closely with your management team and employees to ensure rapid deployment so that your organization and your customers can enjoy the benefi ts right away. Our focus is on understanding your business and your requirements, then developing solutions and strategies that address those needs. E-Markets has been successfully implementing and hosting these solutions since 1996. E-Markets has the systems, people, and experience to provide an optimal solution for your organization. We can serve as your implementation team and work with your staff during key phases of Analysis, Design, and Operations. Our Professional Services experts are available to help you implement individual E-Markets solutions or the entire suite of E-Markets products into your environment. Our consultants have extensive Agribusiness experience not only in the integration of our hosted business solutions, but also in the missioncritical processes that constitute your business environment. Our goal is to support your organization through every step of the implementation process and with ongoing maintenance of our solutions. These capabilities, combined with our project management experience, guarantee that you’ll get “what you want, when you want it.”
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“Cinch Sales allows us to easily and effi ciently process the daily transactions and to generate the necessary reports…The fact that the Cinch programs are integrated with the Microsoft – Great Plains software assures us that the software will be strong, vibrant and enhanced for many years to come.”
Scott Kroeger CFO/Controller Arthur Companies, Inc.
Benefits of E-Markets Software GENERAL MANAGER
GRAIN MERCHANDISER
• Set up Business Alerts to notify you and your staff when an item falls out of normal operating threshold. For instance, if your Accounts Receivable gets too high, you can be notifi ed immediately. • Profi tability by customer. • View the audit trail of transactions. This allows you to know who did what and when they did it. • You can generate a report like an Income Statement or Balance Sheet and then drill back to all of the information that makes up these reports. • Complete Management System • Dashboard Concept – View the informa tion you want, when you want it and how you want it.
• Real-time access to Daily Position Reports and Long/Short Reports. • Cinch allows you to project inventory positions for as far out as you want. (1, 3, 5, 10 years). The system allows you to do lots of strategic “what if” scenarios for planning. • You can have multiple hedge accounts and you can run reports by specifi c hedge accounts. • Provides integrated real-time futures data • Zone-based merchandising reports. • Easy settlement variations and reports.
CONTROLLER • Save man hours by enabling your customers online to see their Statements, Grain Contracts, Scales Tickets, and more. • You get the power of a GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.) • Reporting tools for all aspects of business are very powerful and fl exible. Our main tools are Report Writer, Management Reporter, FRx, and SQL Reporting Services. • Auditing Ease
SCALE OPERATOR • The ability to add lot numbers for Bioterrorism Compliance. • Make Split Tickets easy to process. • Seamless Integration to Electronic Scales and Testing devices allows for fast and efficient grain processing.
MILL MANAGER • Compare your recipe estimates to actual product used and produced to know precisely what ingredients were used to produce your product. • Along with your Bill of Lading, you can print the HAZMAT docs on the fl y. • Not only is selling the main product you produce a breeze, you can also track and sell the by-products like DDG’s, MIDDs, etc.
• Use the Quick Screen to save time. For example, enter daily production 10,000 gallons, and based on your normal recipe and usage, this will adjust your inventory and co-products. This process takes less than 60 seconds to do daily. There is a long form that allows you to adjust Recipe Usage vs. Actual Usage.
AGRONOMY MANAGER • More effi cient work fl ow results in higher employee retention of applicator’s. • Less billing errors because the handhelds allow for perfect reporting of daily activities. • Allows your sales team to build an agronomy plan in the off season that is executed during the busy season. • Have MSDS Sheets automatically generated when certain products are sold. • Workfl ow is seamless from Crop Planning, Order Generation, Blending, Applying, and then Billing the product. • End of Day reporting is as easy as plugging in the handheld to be synchronized with the system.
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CINCH Sales
Cinch® Agri-Suite Includes: CINCH Sales CINCH Seed CINCH Grain CINCH Agronomy CINCH Process Manufacturing CINCH Patronage
Build Effi ciency and Productivity – Reduce administrative costs with easy-to-access restricted-use reports, custom price schedules, and workfl ow that match your business processes. Enhance offi ce productivity with automated split billings and flexible prepay process. Improve Customer Satisfaction – Increase customer retention with customized information, history, and easily accessible notes. Easy-to-read personalized statements fit your customers and your business. Take Control of Regulatory Compliance – Provide full compliance in your ag retail business by generating mandatory regulatory documents including MSDS, WPS, and placarding. Automated generation of DOT manifests and integrates to CDMSSM . Increase Access to Vital Information – Using comprehensive reporting capabilities and simple customer account and sales performance tracking, you can find the information you need to make more effective business decisions. Eliminate Costly Purchasing Mistakes – Accurately forecast your inventory needs with user-friendly tools that provide timely order intentions. Real-time tracking of sales and shipment activity provides the information you need to make in-session adjustments.
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CINCH Seed Splits – CINCH can 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. Split billing allows for ease of billing all split accounts separately. 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 defi ne 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 profi le separately 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.
CINCH Grain
CINCH Process Manufacturing
Effi cient Data Entry – Capture ticket detail with built-in integration to electronic scale and industry grading equipment. Ticket entry allows you to capture ticket detail by farm, fi eld, and lot number to track fi eld histories and IP requirements.
Detailed Defi nition of Operations– More flexibility to define the manufacturing process means a better fit between process and product. Add necessary details for complicated operations, or simplify when the manufacturing environment is lean.
Optimized Revenue – Ensure timely, accurate calculations and updates of your miscellaneous commodity charges. Whether it’s storage, delayed price, or dump charges, CINCH Grain can automatically calculate and apply charges for you.
Improve Resource Management– Bill of Materials (BOM) enables more precise management of materials, components, and bi-products, including costs, locations, and work centers. This provides much tighter control of fi nished goods. The results? Better control of the manufacturing process, lower costs, high productivity, and greater profi tability.
Quick Access to Vital Merchandising Information – Enhance marketing decisions with a real-time view of your merchandising position. Online information provides position summary and details to support timely marketing decisions. Increased Productivity– Reduce administrative costs with automated freight matching, unit train settlement and electronic funds capability.
Effective Cost Management –CINCH Process Manufacturing enables tighter control of your processes-and greater control of profi tability by providing timely, detailed, and accurate tracking of production cost. Quick Access to Critical DecisionMaking Information– Find the key information you need to make critical decisions with easy visibility into inventory position, sales and purchase contracts, and projected production. Timely information eliminates potential production delays and protects your market position.
“The main benefi t of Cinch Grain is the uniformity in which all of the grain handling is done. Also, the effi ciency of the program has reduced our labor. All of our grain customers were very impressed with our ability to accurately give them their storage account status within seconds of their request. Contracting, futures, and grain positions are an important part of my job. The Cinch program allows me to track all of these functions easily and correctly.”
Brian Solvie General Manager Independent Farmers Ag Service
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“I have been doing business with E-Markets for several years. I have found the individuals to be straight forward in their dealings and have been able to deliver on their promises. They have been responsive to my individual company needs, which has aided me in running our business.”
Carl Hoff President Butte County Rice Growers Association
CINCH Agronomy
CINCH Patronage
Focus on Ag Retail – Products are developed to help retail agricultural businesses work more effi ciently. Our agronomy products function in the dayto-day operations of ag retailers.
Streamline Patronage Processing – Manage year-end processing more efficiently with flexible tools. CINCH Patronage supports multiple ownership of single equity accounts and allocations payable by fl at amount, amount rate, quantity rate by unit of measure for purchases, sales or both.
AgroDoc – Sales Planning on field-byfield basis for each of your farmers’ fi elds with your suite of products and services. Delivery Doc – Maintain a valid current inventory control. Schedule– Our scheduling product allows you to schedule activities from fertilizer mixing plant operations to seed deliveries. Need Sub – Fertilizer blending provides DOT documentation, agronomy recommendations and field prescriptions.
Customize to Your Needs – Track and analyze your patronage in a way that best suits your business – not someone else’s – with patronage and member classes, stock types, and inventory groupings that you design to serve your needs. Efficient Data Management – Automatically capture purchase or sales information to calculate the allocations, with easy handling of equity transfers, conversions, write-offs, and stock purchases. Seamless Integration – Integrate your patronage data with Payable Management, Bank Reconciliation, and General Ledger to tap into Microsoft Dynamics GP applications and include it in accounting or analysis tasks.
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Corporate History September, 2005
July, 2003 March, 2003 November, 2002 October, 2002
August, 2002
April, 2002
December 2001
July, 2001
May, 1999
October, 1998
September, 1997
Launched Cinch Version 6.0
Launched Cinch ERP
Launched Ethanol ERP
Acquired IRD Technologies
Licensed Ascendent product
Acquired AgSoft software
Built traceability system for Dow IRT
Launch Ordering Tool for Mycogen
Launched Attribute E-Xchange
Launched DRC Pricing Tool
Industry’s 1st B2B ordering application NetOrder for Croplan Genetics
Industry’s 1st online contracting and traceability tool used by DuPont
1996 E-Markets Founded Founded in 1996, E-Markets introduced the industry’s fi rst online grain production contracting system in 1997, the fi rst Internet-based agricultural input ordering system in 1998, the fi rst Internet-based risk management tool for the grain industry in 2000, the Internet-based Attribute E-XchangeSM trading management tool in 2001, and the newest Agriculture Business management system on the market CINCH Agri-Suite. E-Markets applications eliminate barriers between buyers and sellers; enable information sharing across the agri-food value chain; and streamline back offi ce processes resulting in signifi cant returns for its customers. The company offers the only complete supply chain solution designed specifi cally 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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Business Locations Using E-Markets Solutions
E-Market Locations: Ames, IA | Berthoud, CO | Spicer, MN
E-Markets | 807 Mountain Ave, Suite 200 | Berthoud, CO 80513 | Toll Free: 877.674.7419 | Fax: 970.532.3034 | www.e-markets.com
