ENTERPRISE GRAIN PROCESSORS
Operational Technology for
Large-Scale Grain Processing
From raw ingredient intake through milling, crushing, and co-product management to grower settlement, enterprise processors need systems that understand commodity transformation. Whether you’re running flour mills, feed operations, crush plants, or integrated facilities with ethanol production, the technology challenge is the same: tracking costs accurately from inbound grain through every output stream.
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Do You Face These Enterprise Processing Challenges?
Raw Material Cost Visibility
Commodity input prices move daily, but your processing margin calculations update monthly. By the time you discover your crush spread or milling margin is underwater, you’ve been running unprofitable production for weeks without knowing it.
Co-Product and Yield Accounting Complexity
A bushel of wheat becomes flour, bran, and middlings. Soybeans become meal, oil, and hulls. Corn becomes ethanol, DDGs, and corn oil. Tracking cost allocation and yield rates across multiple output streams, each with different markets, margins, and storage requirements, overwhelms systems designed for single-product manufacturing.
Multi-Plant Consistency
Each facility runs different product lines with different input specifications. Getting standardized financial reporting across the enterprise while supporting each plant’s operational differences requires more than a generic ERP with custom fields bolted on.
These challenges compound at enterprise scale. When you’re running multiple processing facilities across regions, the technology managing those operations needs to match the complexity of the product you’re producing. For operations that include ethanol or biodiesel production alongside grain processing, our Energy & Biofuels page covers the specific feedstock procurement, RFS compliance, and co-product management challenges those facilities face.
Why Enterprise Processors Choose Solentra
01 | Commodity Accounting from Grain Intake to Finished Product
AGRIS tracks costs from raw material through milling, crushing, or processing to finished product output. Grade-based inventory management ensures your wheat is segregated by protein for flour quality, your soybeans are tracked by oil content for crush yield, and your corn is managed by the attributes that affect processing economics. When input prices spike, you see the margin impact across every product stream immediately.
02 | Automated Receiving That Feeds Your Entire Operation
oneWeigh captures weight, moisture, test weight, and quality attributes at the scale and flows that data directly into AGRIS without manual re-entry. During harvest, when your facilities process hundreds of inbound loads daily, eliminating transcription between the scale house and accounting prevents the month-end reconciliation problems that consume your team for days.
03 | Multi-Facility Financial Management
AGRIS handles multi-facility accounting with division and profit center management. Corporate finance gets the consolidated enterprise view. Plant managers see their facility’s performance. Real-time transaction processing means your CFO isn’t waiting for facility-level data to be manually compiled before understanding the company’s financial position.
04 | Integration That Protects Operational Continuity
Growing through acquisition means integrating newly acquired plants without stopping production. Our phased integration approach preserves operations at the acquired facility while building data connections to your enterprise systems over weeks and months, not the years that full replacement projects typically require.
From Intake to Settlement on One Platform
Enterprise grain processing creates a data chain that starts the moment a truck crosses the scale and extends through every stage of transformation. When that chain is connected, every downstream decision is based on accurate, current information.
01 | Receive and Grade
oneWeigh automates inbound receiving: vehicle identification, weighing, quality testing, and bin assignment. Digital data capture at the scale eliminates paper tickets and manual entry. The load record, with every quality attribute attached, flows directly into AGRIS.
02 | Track Raw Material Inventory
AGRIS maintains grade-level inventory tracking across your storage facilities. Wheat segregated by protein content. Soybeans tracked by oil content. Multiple input commodities with different quality specs managed simultaneously. binSight provides automated bin management with up-to-the-minute quality and quantity data across locations.
03 | Process and Allocate Costs
AGRIS process manufacturing capabilities track inventory and costs from raw materials through finished products. Cost allocation across co-product streams, yield rate tracking, and product-line profitability all run natively within the same system that manages your raw material accounting.
04 | Settle with Growers
Automated grade adjustments, contract application, and pricing calculations reduce the time from scale ticket to grower payment from weeks to days. When a grower calls asking about their settlement, your team has an answer immediately instead of checking and calling back.
Enterprise Software for Grain Processing
AGRIS
Enterprise grain accounting, process manufacturing, and financial management. Multi-facility accounting with division and profit center management. Tracks costs from raw material through finished product with grade-level inventory management and real-time transaction processing.
oneWeigh
Scale and facility automation that captures weight, quality, and grading data at the point of intake. Automated receiving workflows feed directly into AGRIS, eliminating manual re-entry between the scale house and your accounting system. Centralized management across multiple processing facilities.
binSight
Automated bin inventory management that tracks quality and quantity across storage locations. Provides merchandisers, production schedulers, and risk managers with current data for faster, more accurate decisions about what feedstock is available and where.
“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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COUNTRIES SERVED
Resources for Enterprise Grain 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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