How Limagrain Seeds connects field production, growers, quality and plant processing with exactllyERP

Limagrain Seeds uses Exactlly Field Production for both Foundation Seed production and Hybrid Seed production. The implementation defines the season, the location and the production field, measures field acreage, and generates the lot number at field level, so a lot exists as a record before any material moves.

Agronomy observations are captured against that field, and field evaluation is recorded before field dispatch to the plant. By the time seed reaches the plant, its field, grower and lot history is already part of the operating record.

In seed production the first quality decisions are agronomic, and they are taken in the field. What is observed there determines whether a crop should progress at all, so those observations belong in the operating record rather than in a separate field notebook.

Exactlly's seed-production workflow is designed to capture field observations such as isolation distance and previous crop; male and female germination percentage; date of 50% flowering for male and female; off-types per acre for male and female; tassels, spurs and shedders per acre; detasseling and roughing start and finish dates; agronomy rating; nick status and days; first and second yield estimation; male chopping and harvesting start and end; male and female population per acre; and remarks.

Those field names illustrate the depth the seed workflow is built for. Limagrain Seeds uses field agronomy observations and field evaluation as part of its current Field Production workflow, together with lot generation and field dispatch. The point is that a field evaluation is a quality gate: it decides what is allowed to travel to the plant.

Seed production is carried out by growers, often organised through an organiser. Limagrain Seeds manages both in exactllyERP, together with grower and organiser payout calculation, advance adjustment and Foundation Seed reconciliation.

The effect is that the production activity and the financial obligation it creates stay attached to each other. What was produced, by whom, against which advance, and what remains to be settled are answered from the same record rather than assembled from a field register and a ledger separately.

Limagrain Seeds uses a mobile Field Production application integrated with exactllyERP through APIs. Field activity is captured where it happens and synchronised into the same operating record the plant and the office work from.

That matters in a business whose first operating stage is spread across locations and fields rather than concentrated on a shop floor.

Seed reaches its market through a distribution footprint rather than from a single warehouse door, so stock has to be visible and controlled wherever it is held, including at clearing and forwarding (C&F) locations.

Limagrain Seeds uses barcode and scanning across its multi-location warehouse and C&F inventory operations, along with stock transfer and supply, and inventory in and out adjustments. Barcode scanning helps keep recorded and physical inventory aligned across locations.

Exactlly connects seasonal sales, customer credit, invoicing, collections and distribution with the same operating environment that manages field production, plant processing and inventory.

The commercial cycle runs on a season rather than continuously, so the sales season and price master come first, advance booking commits demand ahead of availability, and credit exposure is checked before goods are released.

Limagrain Seeds uses a mobile sales and marketing capability integrated with the ERP, covering salesperson target against actual, customer order, customer outstanding and statement, and customer credit-limit availability.

A field sales team asking whether a customer can take another order needs the same credit position the office is looking at, while engaging with the customer.