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Visser Elevator, Inc. uses AgVision Agribusiness software for just about everything the grain company does.
“We use AgVision’s software for everything possible, from A to Z,” says President Jeff Visser. “It’s been working very well for us.”
Visser Elevator started with AgVision in 2002. “We looked at a couple of different companies, and I made the decision to go with AgVision, because it stood out from the other software companies,” says Visser. “We had a number of recommendations about AgVision from other companies.”
In addition to its grain business, Visser Elevator makes and sells feed for the numerous livestock feeding operations in and around the 35-mile radius of its Sioux Center location in northwest Iowa. It also sells Monsanto seed.
Visser says AgVision’s programs cover all phases of the elevator’s operation from the time farmers deliver corn or soybeans across the scale to the feed leaving the elevator.
For example, for the 6 million bushels of corn a year Visser Elevator secures for a poultry operation located three miles away, the elevator utilizes AgVision’s scale interface program to link to the poultry operation’s computers, so it can share the incoming grain volume data. “We like using the scale interface program, because it enters all the moisture and quality data automatically and tracks the grain through the elevator’s inventory,” states Visser.
AgVision’s financial software handles all the invoicing and billing, tracks sales, and keeps an inventory of feed ingredients on hand.
“The AgVision payroll system is really simplified for the monthly and quarterly reports,” says Office Manager Jodie Wielenga. “It’s been updated, so it’s pretty slick.”
The elevator also is acquainting its customers with its ability to access all their account information online, Visser notes, through the AgvisionAnytime.com web portal.
AgVision also makes it easier to prepare reports for state and federal licensing requirements. “The federal and state examiners really like the way AgVision works for meeting the reporting regulations,” notes Visser. “It makes our state and federal examinations a lot easier for us and for them.”
AgVision helped Visser Elevator make the transition to emailing invoices automatically to its customers, says Wielenga. “They helped make that happen. And on the financial side, it is very flexible, so we can bill our individual feed customers for the different rations they use."
Reprinted from Grain Journal July/August 2018 Issue
