A planning system, not a set of tools
AGROPLAN 360™ integrates commercial planning, manufacturing, supply chain, finance and artificial intelligence into a single enterprise governance model, designed for the reality of the agricultural inputs industry.
What stays installed in your company
The outcome is neither a report nor a platform: it is a lasting enterprise capability, with processes, decision forums, indicators and governed data.
- A single approved business plan, shared by every function
- A rolling 12 to 18 month horizon, refreshed on a monthly rhythm
- Planning bound by real plant, material, regulatory and cash constraints
- Agronomic and climate intelligence built into the demand signal
- Executive governance with forums, ownership and decisions on record
- Scenarios evaluated before the operation is committed
- Common indicators with an owner, a target and a baseline
- Artificial intelligence as a planning copilot
- An extended horizon and a locked plan for biological input production
- A P&L by profit centre, built inside the planning cycle
Seven domains, one decision flow
Each domain contributes its part to the same plan. None decides on its own.
Commercial
Turns market opportunity into planned demand, with market intelligence, portfolio and pricing.
Supply Chain
Synchronises materials, capacity and inventory across the entire sourcing and distribution network.
Manufacturing
Turns installed capacity into available, feasible and stable production.
Finance
Validates the economic feasibility of the plan: margin, EBITDA, working capital and cash flow.
Agronomic Intelligence
Crop calendars, application windows, regional behaviour and field signals built into the plan.
Analytics
Turns data into decisions: dashboards, predictive models and scenario simulation.
Artificial Intelligence
A planning copilot: anticipates, detects anomalies, recommends and explains. It does not replace human judgement.
Agronomic intelligence inside the plan
This is the domain that sets AGROPLAN 360™ apart from any generic planning methodology. In agricultural inputs, demand does not follow the commercial calendar: it follows the crop calendar.
That is why the model plans not only by SKU, but also by crop, region, agronomic window and grower type, incorporating the real seasonal behaviour of each campaign.
Seed and biologicals: a cycle that cannot be rescheduled
Classic industrial planning assumes that production responds to an order. That assumption breaks down when the product is a living organism: in hybrid seed, eighteen to thirty months pass between the decision to produce and the labelled bag, the sowing opportunity comes once a year per hemisphere, and the volume is not ordered — it is attempted.
AGROPLAN 360™ brings a dedicated model for these products: an extended horizon, an explicit translation from commercial demand into hectares to be sown, deliberate dispersion of field risk, planning against the industrial constraint of intake and drying, postponed packaging, and allocation rules agreed before they are needed.
The nine stages of the cycle
Each stage has its own horizon, its own constraints and its own irreversible decision point. The whole plan is built backwards from the opening of the sowing window in the destination market.
What changes against a formulated input
The differences are not of degree but of nature: each one invalidates a standard practice of classic industrial planning and demands a substitute mechanism.
Extended horizon
Up to thirty-six months for commercial seed and forty-eight for parent seed, against the eighteen of a formulated input.
Plan lock point
After sowing, the committee stops deciding how much to produce and starts deciding how to allocate. The cycle must recognise that change of nature.
A mix that is obtained
The caliber distribution is an outcome of the process, not a decision variable: the plan is expressed by hybrid and caliber, not by hybrid alone.
Quality that is verified
Germination cannot be corrected. It requires a test and a waiting period, and it governs the real commercial availability date of the lot.
Dispersed risk
Every critical hybrid is produced in more than one independent area, and counter-season production covers the failure of a whole campaign.
Postponed packaging
Seed is held in its most generic form and packed against firm country allocation, not against a forecast.
With biological inputs, service level is not measured against the order date: it is measured against the opening of each region’s sowing window.
Faster and better-founded decisions
AI joins the planning process as a copilot: it brings anticipation, spots what no human eye has time to review, and leaves the final judgement where it belongs — with the people accountable for the business.
Intelligent forecasting
Models that learn from how the market actually behaves.
Anomaly detection
Out-of-range patterns flagged automatically.
Inventory recommendation
Coverage proposals aligned with the target service level.
Scenario simulation
Impact evaluated before the operation is committed.
Ten guiding principles
Every process, indicator and decision in the framework derives from these principles.
Let’s talk about your operation
A 60-minute executive session is enough to place your organisation within the maturity model and estimate the value at stake. No commitment and under confidentiality.