Agvance ERP Grower Syncing

Users with a connected Agvance ERP are able to sync growers and their farms and fields. This will enable unification between the two platforms of this critical information. Connecting a grower has quite a few benefits to the user including being able to submit Work Orders to the connected Agvance ERP database. 

Connecting a Grower

To get started syncing growers, access the "Connect 3rd Party ERP" tool from the tools menu and select Agvance for your ERP provider, then select your Agvance connected database and click the "Connect Growers" button.

Within the "Connect Growers" tool, select which location you would like to sync growers. This list of locations will be that have already been associated in the Database setup tool. 

Once a location has been selected, a list of all FieldAlytics growers for that location will be selected. Growers that are not currently connected will have no value in the Agvance ID column. 

Search for a grower in the Agvance connected database by typing their name within the growers row in the "ERP Grower Search" column. As you are typing FieldAlytics is querying Agvance for any like grower names and will present a list of possible matches.

Select the grower name that is identical to that stored in FieldAlytics. You may repeat this process as many times as you wish to link other growers. Growers may only be linked once, if you wish to connect a grower to another in FieldAlytics please delete the connection to the original grower. Once you are satisfied with your selections click the submit button to save your work. You will notice that a black set of arrows icon appears next to any grower you matched. Once the connection has been submitted, you can confirm that the Agvance ID is correct for the grower the Agvance customer is connected to. If the Agvance ID is correct, click these black arrows to then kick off the connection process between the two platforms. If the Agvance ID is not correct, delete the selected customer within the search field and submit the changes. Then use the search field again to select the correct customer.

The black double arrows will now changes to an orange syncing icon, which indicates that a sync is in process. Once the sync completes, a green check mark will appear next to the Agvance ID for the grower. Note, that this information will also appear in the profile tree next to the grower, farm, and field. Once the grower is connected, any changes to names, boundaries and organization within the connected grower will near instantly be sent to the connected Agvance database. 

Initial Syncing Logic

When FieldAlytics is in the process of connecting a grower we first pull down the organization as in the Agvance database. We then run a name match comparison between the two trees. Any Farm and Field that we can name match under the grower will be connected. If we cannot match a FieldAlytics farm or field to the Agvance structure we will then create it within Agvance. Likewise if the farm or field does not exist in FieldAlytics we will create the farm or field as it exists in Agvance.