Does John Deere Agri Services provide a business system for ethanol facilities?
A. Yes. The ethanol business management system from John Deere Agri Services is a complete, integrated solution to meet the business needs of ethanol plants – from the point of grain purchase contracting and receiving to inventory and payables management to outbound shipping. The system enables better administration of key areas including purchase and sales contract management; inbound/outbound shipments including corn receiving, bulk loadout of DDGS, and flow controller integration for outbound ethanol; production and financial reporting; RIN regulatory solution; and Web-enabled customer account access. The ethanol business management system also provides streamlined data management, including a plant process control interface for capturing DCS data using standard integration tools.
