ABS NEWS DECEMBER 2022

In this newsletter:

– Where to meet ABS this coming period?
– ABS Seed joins in W. von Borries-Eckendorf
– ABS Breeding, Trial and Production – Widgets and charts
– ABS Production & Quality app in React Native advantages

Where to meet ABS in the coming period?

IPM, Essen, January 24-27

ASTA Vegetable and flower conference, Orlando, January 27-31

Do not hesitate to ask us for a meeting:

Dorien van Engelenburg dve@agrosolutions.nl
Ineke Leidelmeijer ile@agrosolutions.nl

Where to meet ABS in the coming period?

IPM, Essen, January 24-27

ASTA Vegetable and flower
conference, Orlando, January 27-31

Do not hesitate to ask us for a meeting:

Dorien van Engelenburg dve@agrosolutions.nl
Ineke Leidelmeijer ile@agrosolutions.nl

ABS Seed joins in W. von Borries-Eckendorf

Interview with Sophia-Christina Sahlfeld

In this article the implementation of ABS for W. von Borries Eckendorf and their experiences with ABS are described: W. von Borries-Eckendorf GmbH & Co. KG is a medium sized, family-owned company with a tradition in plant breeding for more than 170 years. The company is working in breeding and the production of arable crops: barley, wheat and oilseed rape. The team is comprised of 38 employees plus trainees in the professional field of plant technologies. The commercial sales of the varieties is done by Saaten-Union and Rapool.

At W. von Borries-Eckendorf Sophia Sahlfeld is working with a team of five people, responsible for the whole workflow concerning seed production planning, purchase, sales and quality management.

The main task of the production department is to produce pre- basic and basic seeds varieties of barley and wheat. Those seeds are sold via a licence system in several European countries. W. von Borries-Eckendorf is a member of SAATEN-UNION. Two other companies of the group, Hybro and Nordsaat are also using ABS. Their references and examples made von Borries-Eckendorf decide that ABS was right for them, and not their old ERP system.

The implementation of ABS started during 2021. Due to COVID-19 situation, most of the first meetings were set-up remotely via MS Teams. The Go Live with ABS was “just in time” before harvest 2022.

In W. von Borries-Eckendorf 4 – 5 people make use of ABS in the workflow from receiving of the goods until invoicing of the sold seeds. ABS helps in the fields of receiving, cleaning, processing, job orders and invoicing. For next season they plan to work with the ABS production app to include all relevant information from their multiplication fields into ABS from the beginning.

For the workflow, an inclusion of the weighbridge into the ABS system was essential. These weight data are the basis for accounting to the grower and a first estimate of the seeds for the sales department. The way of working is quite simple: the truck is weighed when it is loaded with seed and when it is empty. Then the weight of the empty truck is removed to get the exact weight of the goods. From that moment on Von Borries-Eckendorf can work with these data in ABS without doing anything by hand in a second step. This gives assurance in the process of weighing itself and reduces the work of data management.

During the implementation and after the Go Live, the ABS consultant Sander Spil was always available when there were had questions and problems. When he was not available, we were helped by colleagues from around the world. When there was an error in the late afternoon or evening, which had to be fixed, Sophia had a video call with the ABS Support consultant Richard Kohler in Canada.

W. von Borries-Eckendorf is happy to work in a group of several Saaten-Union companies with ABS. This gives the possibility to learn from and with each other and develop functionalities for cereal crops together.

ABS Seed joins in W. von Borries-Eckendorf

Interview with Sophia-Christina Sahlfeld

In this article the implementation of ABS for W. von Borries Eckendorf and their experiences with ABS are described: W. von Borries-Eckendorf GmbH & Co. KG is a medium sized, family-owned company with a tradition in plant breeding for more than 170 years. The company is working in breeding and the production of arable crops: barley, wheat and oilseed rape. The team is comprised of 38 employees plus trainees in the professional field of plant technologies. The commercial sales of the varieties is done by Saaten-Union and Rapool.

At W. von Borries-Eckendorf Sophia Sahlfeld is working with a team of five people, responsible for the whole workflow concerning seed production planning, purchase, sales and quality management.

The main task of the production department is to produce pre- basic and basic seeds varieties of barley and wheat. Those seeds are sold via a licence system in several European countries. W. von Borries-Eckendorf is a member of SAATEN-UNION. Two other companies of the group, Hybro and Nordsaat are also using ABS. Their references and examples made von Borries-Eckendorf decide that ABS was right for them, and not their old ERP system.

The implementation of ABS started during 2021. Due to COVID-19 situation, most of the first meetings were set-up remotely via MS Teams. The Go Live with ABS was “just in time” before harvest 2022.

In W. von Borries-Eckendorf 4 – 5 people make use of ABS in the workflow from receiving of the goods until invoicing of the sold seeds. ABS helps in the fields of receiving, cleaning, processing, job orders and invoicing. For next season they plan to work with the ABS production app to include all relevant information from their multiplication fields into ABS from the beginning.

For the workflow, an inclusion of the weighbridge into the ABS system was essential. These weight data are the basis for accounting to the grower and a first estimate of the seeds for the sales department. The way of working is quite simple: the truck is weighed when it is loaded with seed and when it is empty. Then the weight of the empty truck is removed to get the exact weight of the goods. From that moment on Von Borries-Eckendorf can work with these data in ABS without doing anything by hand in a second step. This gives assurance in the process of weighing itself and reduces the work of data management.

During the implementation and after the Go Live, the ABS consultant Sander Spil was always available when there were had questions and problems. When he was not available, we were helped by colleagues from around the world. When there was an error in the late afternoon or evening, which had to be fixed, Sophia had a video call with the ABS Support consultant Richard Kohler in Canada.

W. von Borries-Eckendorf is happy to work in a group of several Saaten-Union companies with ABS. This gives the possibility to learn from and with each other and develop functionalities for cereal crops together.

ABS Breeding, Trial and Production – Widgets and charts

In our viewer content it is now possible to add your own widgets.
This ranges from a regular table to pie charts and even a map overview. Below you see examples of these widgets:

There is a flexible set-up, so you are free to choose what data has to be used and shown.
In the admin page of ABS Breeding, Trial or Production, you can create your own new widgets. In the admin you can create per widget:

– The name
– In which menu it will be available
– Type of widget
– The data it has to show. This is to be programmed with SQL.

ABS Production & Quality app in React Native advantages

The off-line ABS apps for ABS Seed have been modernized and will soon be available to replace the current ABS Production and Quality apps in use. This was a complete technical modernization, using React Native technology. In this Article we explain the advantages of the renewed Apps.

The main advantages of the new ABS Production and Quality apps are:

• Fit for as well Android as IOS
• To be used on mobile phones
• Improved filter options on your seed lots and determination assignments
• Improved security than other cross platform solutions.
• Stronger performance
• Higher quality and animations

Fit for as well Android as IOS
On our old software platform Android devices were highly recommended. React native does give a better support on IOS.

To be used on mobile phonesS
The new version of production app built with React Native not only works with your tablet, but also with mobile phones.

Improved filter options on your seed lots and determination assignments
The orientation of the filters has been changed from horizontal to vertical to provide more space to display the list of fields in the Production app or the list of determinations in the Quality app. It would also help the user to see all the filters at once.

It is also possible now to search within the filter list and select the correct option to filter the list of fields. This is very helpful when the filters have a long list of options to select from.

Improved security than other cross platform solutions.
React Native provides better security than any other mobile app development environments. It provides better security from vulnerabilities such as HTML5 information, exposure, in secure storage, JS injections, etc.

Stronger Performance
It provides better performance, which enhances the user experience. React Native loads the data in the app using multiple threads in the background and eliminates the slow webview rendering.

Higher Quality and Animations
React Native apps are faster to build, easier to use, offer better quality than other hybrid apps, and are cheaper than native apps. So all and all, React Native gives you the experience of having a native app, without having to develop one. Instead of mainly relying on the processor for renders, React Native utilizes a graphical processing unit (GPU) for rendering which makes it much faster than the other cross platform solutions

ABS Production & Quality app in React Native advantages

The off-line ABS apps for ABS Seed have been modernized and will soon be available to replace the current ABS Production and Quality apps in use. This was a complete technical modernization, using React Native technology. In this Article we explain the advantages of the renewed Apps.