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Overview

Connected Platforms for Agri Ecosystem

Changing technologies have transformed how agricultural products are bought and sold, with increased digital touchpoints at every point of the supply chain.

Old boundaries are changing, and information portals and platforms for sharing data are helping to create new ecosystems, that promise: predictable supply; risk management; accurate forecasting; reporting on compliance and sustainability targets; and opportunities to diversify and grow.

Connected Agri helps manufacturers reimagine their business model as a connected, sustainable, digital ecosystem.

We have been helping Agri-manufacturers unlock value for more than 20 years by giving them visibility and certainty in the performance of their vertically integrated Agri-commodity business.

Sonata has a unique offering for agricultural manufacturing companies that have close relationships with growers and farmers to enable a data-driven, predictive, and sustainable farm-to-fork supply chain.

We enable this through a set of connected platforms.

 

Connected Agri Overview

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Certainty:

Provides Certainty across your planning and allocation process and improves efficiency and control for manufacturing, supply chain, and financial visibility at every stage of the process.

Visibility:

Enables visibility across Farm operations, Managing contracts with growers/suppliers, logistics & storage, inventory positions, processing, distribution & sales.

Sustainability:

Unifies the supply chain to deliver sustainable outcomes across the food & agricultural value chain to create a future in which farmers, businesses, and nature thrive.
 

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Offerings

Agribusiness Transformation Services 

  • Smart Farming and Grower Engagement

    Smart Farming and Grower Engagement

    Yield management
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    • Yield management 
    • Crop input optimization 
    • Soil nutrient tracking 
    • Farm health indices 
    • Growth stage tracking 
    • Weather forecast 
  • Predictive and sustainable supply chain

    Predictive and sustainable supply chain

    Farm productivity and sustainable outcomes
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    • Farm productivity & sustainable outcomes 
    • Farming environment control 
    • Water & resource usage 
    • Carbon vectorization 
    • Supply chain traceability 
    • Compliance tracking 
  • Connected Agri Data and Insights

    Connected Agri Data and Insights

    360 Degree view of Farm, Crop, Produce, Inventory, Sales, and Customer
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    • 360 Degree view of Farm, Crop, Produce, Inventory, Sales, and Customer 
    • Data-led demand forecasting 
    • Crop predictions 
  • Vertically Integrated Commodity and Operations Transformation

    Vertically Integrated Commodity and Operations Transformation

    Commodity contract management
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    • Commodity contract management 
    • Pricing & Quality 
    • Risk management Inventory positions & logistics 
    • Futures Hedging & Forex 
    • Logistics planning and Production planning 
    • Demand forecasting 
  • Sell-Side Supply Chain Transformation

    Sell-Side Supply Chain Transformation

    Dealer/Distribution management
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    • Dealer/Distribution management 
    • Intelligent order management 
    • Smart warehousing 
    • Demand forecasting 
    • Connected commerce 
  • Platform Modernization and Agri Industry Cloud

    Platform Modernization and Agri Industry Cloud

    Legacy platform modernization.
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Sonata Advantage

Domain Experience

20+ years of experience with Agri manufacturers in their digital transformation journey.

Proven Track Record

Success Stories with referenceable clients in subsegments such as Farmer's co-operatives, Feeds and nutrition, Food Processing, and Grains and oil Seeds.

Industry-led IPs

Built IPs and accelerators specific to the Agri Manufacturing industry.

Investments

The agri sector is one of the contributors to Sonata's growth, which attracts substantial executive sponsorship.

Microsoft Partnership

Sonata, one of the top three global system integrators, is Microsoft's Agri-innovation partner. Early adopters of the Agribusiness cloud, the Sustainability cloud, and toolsets.

Farmers Cooperatives

Farmers Cooperatives

Connected Agri helps in enhancing customer service by providing crop and field insights. You get complete visibility on contracts, logistics, inventory positions, and sales.

Gain accurate supply and demand forecasting through data from your ecosystem while keeping track of your supply chain and conformance to regulatory requirements. Monitor and manage sustainability goals and objectives.

Feeds & Nutrition Producers

Feeds & Nutrition Producers

The supply and demand forecasts are enhanced based on commodity availability, inventory holdings, and customer demand. You can access orders, delivery status, and industry insights, and gain better predictions from integrated Lab, MES, and ERP solutions.

This helps improve the customer experience and manage your goals and objectives for sustainability.

Food Processors

Food Processors

Maximize production capacity through integrated demand and supply forecasting and scheduling and build a robust supply chain with traceability from origin to final consumer destination with Connected Agri.

It enables direct, wholesale via distributors, and retail solutions, all part of a connected platform approach. We help you to integrate both B2B and B2C under one platform, along with the integration of Lab, MES, recipe solutions, etc. for predictive analysis.

Grains and Oil Seed Traders

Grains and Oil Seed Traders

Get visibility of contracted commodities for both buyer and seller sides and expand smart farming services to farmers for better yield management through Connected Agri.

The integration of lab systems provides quality analysis and visibility for inventory holdings to be used in the final pricing of deliveries. It provides insights for predictive analysis of industry trends, requirements for the next harvest, and a 360-degree view of suppliers, customers, inventory, logistics, and commodities.

  • Farmers Cooperatives
  • Feeds & Nutrition Producers
  • Food Processors
  • Grains and Oil Seed Traders
Industry Segments

Success Stories

Agri

Sonata Connected Agri Enables the World's Largest Farmer Cooperative with a Single Source of Truth

The largest Cooperative farm supply company from Denmark had a requirement for implementing their digital vision to maximize value growth and enhance visibility. Sonata's implementation of Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations and other solutions increased visibility with a single source of data and improved visibility with better cost control.

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Agri

Secured Multichannel Retail Store Operations for a Farm Supply Cooperative

A Danish-based farmer's co-operative aimed to streamline its operations with the help of one platform across all its agribusiness divisions. Sonata's Commodity CTRM platform implementation ensured standardized systems geared towards maximizing profits. 

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Agri

How an Animal Feed Producer achieved Certainty and Visibility with Connected Agri solution?

A leading manufacturer of all kinds of animal feeds and related products in the ANZ Region was facing challenges in tracking and managing the manufacturing processes of thousands of unique product formulas. With the implementation of a tailored Dynamics ERP system, Sonata enabled long-term savings through a lower total cost of ownership and better visibility.

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Thought Leadership

How Connected Equipment Empowers Agri-Businesses with Certainty and Visibility?

The new agri-cloud promises enormous opportunity for the whole agri-food ecosystem, where there are close links between growers and farmers, manufacturers and distributors.

These interconnected players are finely tuned to changes in farm management and grower services, commodities markets, and supply chain complexities.

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