ENERGY & BIOFUELS OPERATIONS
Enterprise Technology for Ethanol,
Biodiesel, and Renewable Fuels
Biofuels production sits at the intersection of commodity trading and process manufacturing. You’re buying grain in volatile markets, transforming it through complex production, managing co-product streams with their own margins, and navigating layered regulatory requirements. When that operation spans multiple plants, the technology needs to handle both the commodity side and the production side on one connected platform.
45+ YEARS IN BUSINESS
Do You Face These Energy Operations Challenges?
Feedstock Cost Exposure
Corn prices move daily. Your procurement team is managing basis contracts, forward agreements, and deferred pricing across multiple delivery months and supplier relationships. By the time your monthly margin report lands, the numbers are already stale. You need real-time visibility into feedstock costs, not a retrospective view that arrives weeks late.
Multi-Stream Margin Management
Every bushel of corn produces ethanol, distillers dried grains, and corn oil simultaneously. Each co-product has its own market, its own price dynamics, and its own margin profile. Tracking profitability across these streams in disconnected systems means your finance team is rebuilding the full picture manually every reporting cycle.
Regulatory Complexity
RFS compliance, RIN generation and tracking, state environmental reporting, feedstock traceability documentation, and financial auditing requirements that cross both agricultural commodity and energy regulatory frameworks. Reconstructing an audit trail from paper tickets and spreadsheets months after the fact is a compliance risk you don’t need to carry.
These challenges share a root cause: biofuels operations need technology that understands both commodity procurement and process manufacturing within one system. Generic plant management software handles production but ignores the commodity complexity on the input side. Commodity platforms handle trading but can’t track what happens after grain enters the plant. Enterprise biofuels operations need both.
Why Enterprise Energy Operations Choose Solentra
01 | Commodity-Native Feedstock Procurement
AGRIS handles feedstock purchasing with the same commodity accounting depth that global grain originators depend on: deferred pricing contracts, basis contracts, forward agreements, and real-time position tracking across delivery months and facilities. Your procurement team sees enterprise-wide feedstock exposure before committing to the next purchase, not after a spreadsheet update.
02 | Real-Time Margin Visibility Across Co-Products
AGRIS process manufacturing tracks costs from raw grain through every output stream. When corn prices spike 15% in a week, your finance team sees the margin impact on ethanol, DDGs, and corn oil immediately. Not at the next monthly review. Not after manually pulling data from three systems. Immediately, because the feedstock cost and the production output live in the same platform.
03 | Compliance Built Into the Data Chain
The documentation chain starts at receiving. When AGRIS and oneWeigh capture every inbound load with digital records, including weight, quality, origin, grower, and contract terms, the traceability foundation for RFS compliance, RIN documentation, and audit readiness builds automatically. You’re not reconstructing records from paper tickets six months after the fact.
04 | Multi-Plant Coordination from One Platform
For operations running multiple ethanol or biodiesel facilities, AGRIS manages multi-plant accounting with division and profit center management. Corporate finance gets consolidated reporting across all plants. Plant managers see their facility’s performance. Agiblocks adds commodity trade and risk management for enterprises hedging feedstock and product positions across plants and markets.
From Feedstock Procurement to Product Shipment
Enterprise biofuels technology needs to connect the commodity world on the input side to the manufacturing world on the production side. Here’s how the platform handles that full cycle.
01 | Procure Feedstock
AGRIS manages your grower and supplier contracts with commodity-native transaction handling. Deferred pricing, basis contracts, and forward agreements process natively without the custom development that general-purpose ERPs require. Position management tracks your feedstock exposure in real time across commodities, delivery months, and facilities. For operations also originating grain directly from growers, AGRIS manages the full relationship: contracts, deliveries, grading, and settlement.
02 | Receive and Grade
oneWeigh automates inbound receiving at your plant: vehicle identification, weighing, quality testing, and storage assignment. Data captured at the scale flows directly into AGRIS without manual re-entry. During harvest, when your facility processes hundreds of inbound loads daily, automated receiving eliminates the transcription errors that create settlement disputes and inventory discrepancies downstream. binSight extends inventory visibility with automated bin management across storage locations.
03 | Process and Track Costs
AGRIS process manufacturing capabilities track costs from raw material through finished products, supporting the cost allocation models that multi-output production requires. Ethanol, DDGs, corn oil, and any other co-product streams are tracked with individual margin visibility. Yield rate monitoring against input quality helps production teams optimize throughput and identify efficiency opportunities.
04 | Ship and Settle
oneFreight automates freight dispatch and transportation management directly from AGRIS contracts, eliminating manual coordination for both inbound feedstock logistics and outbound product shipping. Grower settlements process through automated grade adjustments, contract application, and pricing calculations, reducing time from delivery to payment and protecting the grower relationships your plant depends on for consistent feedstock supply.
Enterprise Software for Energy and Biofuels
AGRIS
Enterprise commodity accounting, process manufacturing, and financial management for biofuels operations. Feedstock procurement with native commodity transaction handling. Multi-plant accounting with division and profit center management. Cost tracking from raw grain through every co-product output stream.
oneWeigh
Scale and facility automation for high-volume grain receiving at production plants. Automated weighing, grading, and receiving workflows that feed directly into AGRIS. Digital data capture at the scale creates the traceability foundation for compliance documentation and audit readiness.
Agiblocks
Commodity trade and risk management with real-time position tracking, hedge integration, and profitability analysis across feedstock and product portfolios. When input prices or product markets shift, your team sees the margin impact across every position immediately.
“Partnering Solentra with our support and development teams for the past 30+ years has created the best possible experience for both our end-users and customers. We are looking forward to many more years of collaborating and adapting to our business needs.”
GUS GELPI, VICE PRESIDENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CGB ENTERPRISES, INC.
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YEARS OF ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP
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Resources for Energy and Biofuels Operations
What Makes Grain Accounting Different from Standard Accounting
Follow a single truckload of corn from contract through settlement to see why commodity transactions break the assumptions built into standard ERP systems.
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