Planning is at the heart of how many Agworld customers prepare for the season ahead, so it matters to make that experience fast, reliable and easy to use. Over the past six months, some agronomists have already been using our rebuilt Planning page, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. As a result, we’re now making this updated Planning experience the standard for everyone.
We’ve rebuilt Planning behind the scenes while deliberately retaining the familiar workflow and much of the layout you already know. The result is a faster and more responsive experience, along with several improvements that make it easier to manage plans as they change throughout the season.
Faster Planning, without having to relearn the page
Although Planning might look familiar, there has been a significant rebuild underneath the surface. The updated page is noticeably faster and more responsive, helping you move between fields, activities and plans with less waiting. At the same time, we’ve intentionally kept the core Planning workflow familiar, so you can continue working the way you already do rather than learning an entirely new system.
The rebuild also gives us a stronger foundation to continue improving and expanding the Planning experience over time.
Sharing plans with your clients is now easier than ever
In the navigation bar you’ll now see a new icon that indicates whether a plan has been approved - and therefore shared with your client.
When you convert planned activities to recommendations or work orders, you’ll be reminded to approve the remainder of the planned activities and automatically share them with your client.
Growers who have a plan prepared for them by their agronomist but haven’t had this plan shared to them yet, can also see that there are draft plans there and can request the draft plan be shared with them for review.
Summarized Planned Data Report
The updated Planning experience introduces a new overview that gives users a quick summary of their planned data for the selected season. From the left-hand sidebar, you can select a season and expand or collapse farms and their associated fields.
The Overview provides an at-a-glance breakdown of planning progress, including planned vs. unplanned area, the number of fields with a crop set, total fields across all farms, and the percentage of area that remains unplanned. A new crop mix panel also displays two seasons side by side, making it easier to compare crop mix between seasons and understand how plans are changing over time.
See planned nutrition by field
We’ve also introduced a new Planned Nutrition report, giving growers and advisors greater visibility into the nutrition they have planned before those activities are carried out. Available from the Planning Reports page, the report provides field-level visibility into planned nutrition and the associated dollars. It follows a similar concept to the existing As Applied Nutrition report, but instead of looking back at completed actuals, it uses your planned activities.
This makes it easier to review the nutrition strategy and investment planned for individual fields before the season progresses. The Planned Nutrition report is available through Agworld’s existing Planning reporting format.
Now the standard Planning experience
The updated Planning page has already been available as an option over the past six months, and we’ve been excited by how positively agronomists and growers have responded to the faster experience. Now, we’re ready to make it the standard Planning experience for all Agworld customers.
Faster performance, fewer steps when plans change and better visibility into planned nutrition are immediate benefits, while the rebuild behind the scenes gives us a much stronger platform to keep making Agworld’s Planning features better.
