This aspect of the SAM system is supported by several primary groups of information which include grower budgets, grower history, sales history, sales budget forecasting, sales contracts, sales orders, and shipment lots. The position reporting function provides information either online or in printed format. The flexible report framework is based on a template approach and provides for movement from an actual situation to a theoretical summary level scenario. Reports are based on user defined, multi-level, categorization rules. The introduction of assumptions or overrides is possible at any category level.
Information is extracted from actual, real time data.
In addition, any selection of product description is available for position reports. The product description includes commodity, owner, crop year, style, variety, quality, size, and packaging. An additional factor in position reporting is time frequency. For management purposes, reporting is available by day, week, or month for flexibility in choosing a date range. Data is stored in standard database formats.