Increasing Revenue through:
Improved Agricultural Decision Making
CanePro’s powerful graphical reporting features will allow management to identify promising trends and make informed agricultural decisions e.g. variety selection, appraise manager performance, etc.
Increased yields through harvest and replant planning.
Improve sucrose yields using CanePro’s harvest and replant planners by optimizing harvest sequence to take advantage of seasonal quality and age trends.
Tailored Resource Applications
Accurately match agronomic resource requirements using CanePro’s expert planning tools, e.g. develop field-specific fertilizer recommendations to meet soil thresholds.
Operational Control of Critical Operations
Plan and control the timing of critical operations, e.g. fertilizer, ripener or irrigation events. CanePro’s operational planning and control functionality will allow management to identify critical tasks and monitor their execution (timing and resource utilization).
Improved yields through better irrigation management and control.
Improve the distribution and timing of irrigation events to reduce water stress and increase yields. Manage the irrigation supply network to best match demand within the constraints of the supply network.
Reduced Costs through:
Transparency and Controls
Improve the reliability and control of labour capture through CanePro’s security and database auditing functionality. Reduce the opportunity for fraudulent transactions and place responsibility for data sign-off on immediate superiors.
Reduced Resource Utilization
Reduce resource utilization through accurate resource planning.
Control of physicals
The resource planning and budgeting modules would allow senior management to track resource utilization and pinpoint areas where savings can be made. CanePro’s budgeting module would allow management to constantly monitor actual resource utilization and costs incurred versus budgeted resources and costs.
What-if Analyses
Determine best practice using CanePro’s scenario-based resource planning functionality. Compare management scenarios and evaluate their effect on resource utilization and cost.
Staffing Costs
With all reports being generated from primary data, fewer data capture clerks would be required, allowing for more productive use of their time. Data capture clerks would no longer be required to aggregate and summarise data.
Management would no longer have to spend time waiting for and compiling reports. Management would be able to generate reports directly from CanePro.
Other Benefits:
Central Company database
By sharing master tables between departments, data capturing and reporting errors are reduced and operational mistakes can be avoided. For example, if the harvesting manager changes the order in which a block is harvested, the ripening manager will immediately see this change and adjust his ripening schedule accordingly.
A centralized database would give management an integrated picture of the entire operation, at any level in the operational hierarchy.
Continuity
Employees come and go; if their knowledge and data is secured in a company database, their work is not lost to their successors.
Information Integration
There are enormous advantages to having one integrated package, where data is shared between different departments. For example, changes to the field master table by the field department would become instantly visible to the harvest planning operation.
Sharing of Technology and Ideas
SQR Software works with estates in different parts of the world. We incorporate the best of their varied management methods and technologies into CanePro.
More cost effective than purchasing individual modules or developing in-house software.
Purchasing comparable modules (if available) from multiple vendors is considerably more expensive than investing in CanePro and would not give the same level of integration. Developing the same functionality “in-house” would be more expensive and difficult to maintain.
Benchmarking
Capturing all agricultural-related information into a single system simplifies benchmarking between estates/divisions. Benchmarking yield and production standards between production units allows senior management to identify problem areas and poor management.
Data Accuracy and Reduced Input Errors
CanePro has the ability to screen data for abnormal entries. For example, it is impossible to enter in sucrose percentages that do not fall within a user defined range.