Estate Canepro

• CanePro is a multi-user application designed specifically for the requirements of large commercial sugar estates.
• CanePro provides an integrated solution for managing fields, estimates, irrigation, employees, vehicles and materials.
• CanePro consolidates all your data into a single database with controlled access for all users.
• CanePro affords improved insight and decision making with its easy-to-use graphical reporting interface.
• CanePro enables middle management to become accountable for decisions by allocating responsibilities to specific tasks.

Budgeting

The Budgeting module generates costs which are grouped by:

• Account
• Financial month
• Cost centre location
• Cost centre activity There are various sources of costs, including:
• The Resource Planner module. Physical quantities are converted into direct costs using a table of cost standards.
• The Overhead Costs Planner. Costs can be entered at a monthly level. Alternatively, they can be entered at an annual level. A phasing rule can then be used to allocate the annual amount to the various financial months. High-level costs can also be allocated to multiple cost centers at the same time, using an allocation basis and a phasing rule.
• A Sucrose Revenue Planner. This is used to predict revenue based on each field's projected sucrose yield.
• A Seed-Cane Revenue Planner.

The Budgeting Module shares many of the same analytical tools as the Resource Planner module. Excel pivot cubes are also used for generating custom reports and for analyzing costs at any level of detail. These Excel reports can be saved in the database.

The Budgeting Module provides the budget in a format suitable for integration with the company's financial systems. It also allows costs to be more easily related back to physicals, thus enabling a better reconciliation of the financial and agricultural views of the operation.

This integrated approach can be used to improve planning and control at a still higher level within the organization.