Operational and financial reporting differentiates Anderson Clayton (now a part of Queensland Cotton) from its competitors; attracts new growers to the company.

Anderson Clayton deployed an arcplan-based solution that:

• Provides individual growers’ reports to them where ever they may be, which replaced a reporting request system that would take days to provide information to growers
• Improves the growers’ ability to change their operations to factors they notice in the field
• Replaced the need to obtain hard copy grower ledger reports from the central financial office at company headquarters
• Eliminates redundancy of data
• Provides an end-to-end view of the production process, from ginning to warehousing to the marketing of the finished cotton.

Anderson Clayton Web portal solution

The Anderson Clayton system connects growers to financial and operational information from anywhere. It replaces the need to request reports from the company, and improves the growers’ understanding of their financial outlook. The system’s reporting provides:

• Simple interface for growers to access individual account information, as well as operational information from the cotton ginning operation.
• The ability to track bales from ginning, to warehousing and marketing with one reporting system.
• Integrated financial and operational performance metrics

Benefits: competitive advantages

• Reduction from days to minutes in suppliers’ (growers’) ability to access financial and operations information
• Web-based interface allows for fast and efficient maintenance and installation and minimal training for users
• Improved data quality and consistency based on an integrated solution
• System has attracted new growers, which allowed Anderson Clayton to increase its output and therefore increase revenues.

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