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How to Set Up and Configure Print Management for Commodity Reports
In release 2022 R2, Levridge has added print management support for several commodity accounting reports. The list of reports now utilizing Dynamics 365 print management are purchase and sales contracts, purchase and sales pricing confirmations, scale tickets,...
How to Set Up Default Apply Partners on Purchase Contracts
In release 2022 R2, Levridge has added support for purchase contract apply partners. Purchase contract apply partners are other growers allowed to deliver against purchase contracts so not only can the grower listed on the contract deliver against that contract, so...
Using Purchase Advances in the Settlement Process
Purchase advances allow you to prepay on a purchase contract for commodity deliveries. In Levridge, you can create as many advances as you need or want, and you are not restricted on how much you can advance.
How to Use Lien Holders and Settlements in Levridge
In Levridge, lien holders can be automatically paid during the settlement process. The first step in getting lien holders paid is to set them up on grower accounts.
Implementing Print Management for Custom Module
At Levridge, as an ISV, we have our own custom modules with custom reports. Stock D365 Finance and Operations modules like Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and a few others have Print Management Settings. These are settings that apply to those defined reports...
2022 R1 Release
Levridge is excited to make available the first release of 2022. This release has one primary theme: Extend the functionality in commodity accounting for transporting product in and out and accounting for that product using the client’s preferred accounting...
Commodity Risk Reports Scheduled Printing
A new feature the Levridge team implemented in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations that will be released in 2022 R2, is enabling the scheduled execution of 4 commodity risk reports for ‘today.’ For a client using Levridge, they will have a variety of commodity risk...
Consuming Sales Contracts from Sales Orders
In the 2022 R1 Levridge release there is a new feature enabling the consumption of sales commodity contracts from sales orders.
2021 R3 Release – Levridge
Levridge is excited to make available the third and final release of 2021. This release has two primary themes: the footprint of splits and split billing have been significantly lightened and the foundation for supporting AgXML document exchanges has been added.
Commodity Long and Short Position: Delivery vs Hedge
Levridge has designed and developed two versions of the Commodity Long and Short report. A Delivery position where the position month is based on the delivery period that is on the contract line.
Dealing with Disparate Lines of Business as an Agriculture Retailer
Agriculture retailers (Ag retailers) are the most complicated businesses out there today. Every business says they are complex but from a system solution standpoint there’s really nothing more complex than an ag retailer. This is big reason technology is lagging behind at ag retailers.
From Freight Invoice to Customer
Levridge commodity software solution includes features around creating freight bill and paying freight carriers. You can read my previous blogs about the design and trouble shooting of the freight payable features. Levridge also includes a feature that lets you pass...
How to: Batch Tracking in Levridge
Levridge has functionality to support batch tracking for commodities from the time a scale ticket comes in until the product goes out the door. Here is how it works: 1. On the item, turn on the Tracking inventory dimensions for batch numbers. Microsoft Finance and...
Customer Commodity Purchase Dashboard in Levridge
Levridge contains a few different dashboards centered around commodity contracts and delivery against them. This article highlights the purchase side but there is also a corresponding dashboard for the sales side. The Customer commodity purchase dashboard in Levridge...
How to Fix Billing Mistakes in Levridge
In the Agriculture industry split billing and prepayments are common, but this comes with challenges for the billing department ensuring the correct growers are billed for the products, quantities, and prices. Mistakes happen. It is how quickly and efficiently we...
Freight Trouble Shooting
If you are creating a scale ticket in Levridge, and it’s not creating a freight bill as it should, here are a few things you can check. There are a few data fields on the Scale ticket that are used to trigger the creation of a freight bill. The carrier, the carrier...
Ransomware Attacks in Agriculture on the Rise – Are You Ready?
Top 7 Things You Can Do to Prepare Ransomware attacks have gone from an annoyance that the IT team talks about to an issue that's reached the Boardroom of agriculture companies. Attacks are on the rise - there's been an increase of 93% year over year. They are also...
Commodity Transportation Management – Rates and Additional Charges in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
In the world of commodities product needs to get from point A to point B. That’s why it’s important to have a reliable and easy to use transportation management feature when shipping your inbound and outbound products. Right out of the box Microsoft Dynamics 365...
New Feature: Freight Billing
What was the Designer Thinking? Just like when you change oil on a car where you have to remove the front tire to get at the oil filter, sometimes in software, you wonder, “What was, [whoever designed this], thinking”. Well, as a designer, I’d like to share some of...
Daily Position Report for Levridge Commodity
For Levridge Commodity we have developed our version of the Daily Position Report (DPR). The DPR will show the total commodity inventory and details of that inventory. It is broken down into three main sections with some sub-sections. The top section is the total...
Levridge Partners with Ag-Business Consulting Firm, Beyond, for Perfect Combination of Industry Expertise and Modern Software
Levridge, a modern ag-business technology provider, and Beyond, an Ag-business consulting firm, formerly known as Christianson CPAs & Consultants, have joined forces. This strategic partnership provides business software applications that equip the agriculture and...
A Simplified Settlement Process
In Levridge, there is a wizard to make the settlement process as efficient and error free as possible. The wizard starts with prompting for the grower, commodity, branch and disposition you want to settle. Once those values are entered, you mark the scale tickets for that grower, commodity, etc. you want to settle.
Levridge Update: New Features in the 2021 R2 Release
The 2021 R2 release of Levridge is now publicly available. This release includes additional functionality for both Ag Sales and Commodity that enhances the core functionality of the program.
Levridge Founder Becky Newell Joins Agweek Podcast to Discuss Ag Business Software
Becky Newell, founder, and president of Levridge, an agricultural software company, joined the Agweek Podcast to talk about solutions for ag business software needs. Listen to the podcast above or read the Q & A below! Q: Tell Us About Levridge Levridge is a...
Best Practices in Managing Load Orders for Grain Processors
The load order system for Grain Processors within Levridge allows you to have complete control of all outbound commodities. Built on Dynamics 365, Levridge takes advantage of the Microsoft cloud which provides anywhere, anytime access, automatic backups, and strong...
Managing Commodity Sales Contracts in Levridge
Each commodity sales contract is comprised of varying levels of information related to the contract type, customer account, commodity type and more. Frequently, ag retailers are relying on large spreadsheets to track and manage this information and struggle to quickly access complete customer information and generate invoices.
Managing Grower Offers and Inbound Commodities with Levridge
Managing your grower offers within Levridge is a simple task that gives you insights into each offer, provides pricing updates, and allows you to easily complete payments to growers.
Why Ag Retailers Need a Cloud-Based Solution
The ability to have instant access to data anywhere and at any time is exponentially valuable – especially to ag retailers with a variety of locations and employees in the field. Let’s address the top five reasons that agriculture retailers are transitioning to Dynamics 365 and Levridge in the cloud.
How to Set Up Default Apply Partners on Purchase Contracts
In release 2022 R2, Levridge has added support for purchase contract apply partners. Purchase contract apply partners are other growers allowed to deliver against purchase contracts so not only can the grower listed on the contract deliver against that contract, so...
Using Purchase Advances in the Settlement Process
Purchase advances allow you to prepay on a purchase contract for commodity deliveries. In Levridge, you can create as many advances as you need or want, and you are not restricted on how much you can advance.
How to Use Lien Holders and Settlements in Levridge
In Levridge, lien holders can be automatically paid during the settlement process. The first step in getting lien holders paid is to set them up on grower accounts.
Implementing Print Management for Custom Module
At Levridge, as an ISV, we have our own custom modules with custom reports. Stock D365 Finance and Operations modules like Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and a few others have Print Management Settings. These are settings that apply to those defined reports...
2022 R1 Release
Levridge is excited to make available the first release of 2022. This release has one primary theme: Extend the functionality in commodity accounting for transporting product in and out and accounting for that product using the client’s preferred accounting...
Commodity Risk Reports Scheduled Printing
A new feature the Levridge team implemented in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations that will be released in 2022 R2, is enabling the scheduled execution of 4 commodity risk reports for ‘today.’ For a client using Levridge, they will have a variety of commodity risk...
Consuming Sales Contracts from Sales Orders
In the 2022 R1 Levridge release there is a new feature enabling the consumption of sales commodity contracts from sales orders.
2021 R3 Release – Levridge
Levridge is excited to make available the third and final release of 2021. This release has two primary themes: the footprint of splits and split billing have been significantly lightened and the foundation for supporting AgXML document exchanges has been added.
Commodity Long and Short Position: Delivery vs Hedge
Levridge has designed and developed two versions of the Commodity Long and Short report. A Delivery position where the position month is based on the delivery period that is on the contract line.
Dealing with Disparate Lines of Business as an Agriculture Retailer
Agriculture retailers (Ag retailers) are the most complicated businesses out there today. Every business says they are complex but from a system solution standpoint there’s really nothing more complex than an ag retailer. This is big reason technology is lagging behind at ag retailers.
From Freight Invoice to Customer
Levridge commodity software solution includes features around creating freight bill and paying freight carriers. You can read my previous blogs about the design and trouble shooting of the freight payable features. Levridge also includes a feature that lets you pass...
How to: Batch Tracking in Levridge
Levridge has functionality to support batch tracking for commodities from the time a scale ticket comes in until the product goes out the door. Here is how it works: 1. On the item, turn on the Tracking inventory dimensions for batch numbers. Microsoft Finance and...
Customer Commodity Purchase Dashboard in Levridge
Levridge contains a few different dashboards centered around commodity contracts and delivery against them. This article highlights the purchase side but there is also a corresponding dashboard for the sales side. The Customer commodity purchase dashboard in Levridge...
How to Fix Billing Mistakes in Levridge
In the Agriculture industry split billing and prepayments are common, but this comes with challenges for the billing department ensuring the correct growers are billed for the products, quantities, and prices. Mistakes happen. It is how quickly and efficiently we...
Freight Trouble Shooting
If you are creating a scale ticket in Levridge, and it’s not creating a freight bill as it should, here are a few things you can check. There are a few data fields on the Scale ticket that are used to trigger the creation of a freight bill. The carrier, the carrier...
Ransomware Attacks in Agriculture on the Rise – Are You Ready?
Top 7 Things You Can Do to Prepare Ransomware attacks have gone from an annoyance that the IT team talks about to an issue that's reached the Boardroom of agriculture companies. Attacks are on the rise - there's been an increase of 93% year over year. They are also...
Commodity Transportation Management – Rates and Additional Charges in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
In the world of commodities product needs to get from point A to point B. That’s why it’s important to have a reliable and easy to use transportation management feature when shipping your inbound and outbound products. Right out of the box Microsoft Dynamics 365...
New Feature: Freight Billing
What was the Designer Thinking? Just like when you change oil on a car where you have to remove the front tire to get at the oil filter, sometimes in software, you wonder, “What was, [whoever designed this], thinking”. Well, as a designer, I’d like to share some of...
Daily Position Report for Levridge Commodity
For Levridge Commodity we have developed our version of the Daily Position Report (DPR). The DPR will show the total commodity inventory and details of that inventory. It is broken down into three main sections with some sub-sections. The top section is the total...
Levridge Partners with Ag-Business Consulting Firm, Beyond, for Perfect Combination of Industry Expertise and Modern Software
Levridge, a modern ag-business technology provider, and Beyond, an Ag-business consulting firm, formerly known as Christianson CPAs & Consultants, have joined forces. This strategic partnership provides business software applications that equip the agriculture and...
A Simplified Settlement Process
In Levridge, there is a wizard to make the settlement process as efficient and error free as possible. The wizard starts with prompting for the grower, commodity, branch and disposition you want to settle. Once those values are entered, you mark the scale tickets for that grower, commodity, etc. you want to settle.
Levridge Update: New Features in the 2021 R2 Release
The 2021 R2 release of Levridge is now publicly available. This release includes additional functionality for both Ag Sales and Commodity that enhances the core functionality of the program.
Levridge Founder Becky Newell Joins Agweek Podcast to Discuss Ag Business Software
Becky Newell, founder, and president of Levridge, an agricultural software company, joined the Agweek Podcast to talk about solutions for ag business software needs. Listen to the podcast above or read the Q & A below! Q: Tell Us About Levridge Levridge is a...
Best Practices in Managing Load Orders for Grain Processors
The load order system for Grain Processors within Levridge allows you to have complete control of all outbound commodities. Built on Dynamics 365, Levridge takes advantage of the Microsoft cloud which provides anywhere, anytime access, automatic backups, and strong...
Managing Commodity Sales Contracts in Levridge
Each commodity sales contract is comprised of varying levels of information related to the contract type, customer account, commodity type and more. Frequently, ag retailers are relying on large spreadsheets to track and manage this information and struggle to quickly access complete customer information and generate invoices.
Managing Grower Offers and Inbound Commodities with Levridge
Managing your grower offers within Levridge is a simple task that gives you insights into each offer, provides pricing updates, and allows you to easily complete payments to growers.
Why Ag Retailers Need a Cloud-Based Solution
The ability to have instant access to data anywhere and at any time is exponentially valuable – especially to ag retailers with a variety of locations and employees in the field. Let’s address the top five reasons that agriculture retailers are transitioning to Dynamics 365 and Levridge in the cloud.