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AgReliant Genetics increased scenario planning frequency 3x within months
AgReliant Genetics sells corn, soybean, alfalfa and sorghum seed across the US and Canada under the AgriGold, LGSeed and PRIDE brands. Moving from emailed Excel templates to Jedox Integrated Business Planning, its finance team tripled scenario planning frequency within months and gained real product profitability analysis.
3x
increase in scenario planning frequency within months
Nearly 3 weeks
previous planning cycle using emailed Excel templates
About AgReliant Genetics
AgReliant Genetics is a seed production company serving the United States and Canada. It sells corn, soybean, alfalfa and sorghum seed under the AgriGold, LGSeed and PRIDE brands. It is the third-largest seed corn company in the US and runs one of the top four agriculture research programmes in North America.
Challenge
Three weeks per planning cycle
Agricultural business cycles demand more forecasting than most companies of a similar size, with only one sale per year. Planning and reporting at AgReliant were manual, relying on disconnected Excel spreadsheets and data copied by hand from source systems.
A single planning cycle took nearly three weeks as templates were emailed back and forth, reviewed and consolidated. This delayed decisions, limited how often the team could plan and left little time for strategic work. The team also had no real ability to analyse product profitability. A 2020 move to SAP for the general ledger improved scalability but did not address these planning needs.
Solution
Integrated planning that finance owns
AgReliant adopted Jedox Integrated Business Planning. A key requirement was that finance could manage the system with minimal IT involvement, as business requirements and planning cycles change frequently.
Jedox integrates with UKG payroll for labour and workforce planning, with the in-house ERP (via SQL extraction) for product profitability analysis, and with SAP as the general ledger, with Excel as the interface in place of manual file exchanges. Planning was separated from financial reporting, and the accounting team now uses Jedox for financial statements, reducing reliance on the general ledger alone to close the books – a benefit outside the original project scope.
“The level of detail and accuracy we achieve in our planning is so much higher with Jedox.”
Walt Pisarski
Director of Financial Planning & Analysis
AgReliant
Outcome
3x more frequent scenario planning
Scenario planning frequency increased threefold within months of adoption, supported by an up-to-date single source of truth.
Leadership now receives precise product profitability figures rather than a range of possibilities, with scenario analysis of anticipated product sales against budget cited as the team’s greatest insight. Forecasts can be measured against targets, misses identified and adjustments made, and stakeholders have greater confidence in the data.
The ability to customize Jedox to meet our requirements has been the greatest payoff.
Walt Pisarski, Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, AgReliant
Jedox in use at AgReliant Genetics
- Integrated Business Planning
- Workforce planning
- Product profitability analysis
- Financial reporting
- Scenario planning
- SAP integration
- UKG payroll integration
- In-house ERP integration (SQL)
- Excel interface
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