Nov 4, 2025
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Agribusiness
SAP Agribusiness helps companies create transparent and sustainable food supply chains and farming efficiencies with digital technology. The world’s population continues to grow, demand is increasing for healthy and sustainable foods. To be successful businesses need smart solutions from farm to fork by running core business processes more efficiently.
Key capabilities of SAP Agribusiness are:
- Agricultural production and farming. Digital agriculture with the internet of things (loT) and farm management.
- Origination and trading. Agriculture origination, farmer collaboration, trading, and risk management.
- Commodity and food processing. Dairy management, manufacturing operations, and protein management.
- Food supply chain management. Demand management and insights, order promising, response and supply planning, sales inventory and operations planning, silo and warehouse management, farm to consumer traceability, transportation management, yard logistics.
- Marketing and sales. Collaborative sales force automation, commerce personalization, consent-based marketing, omni-channel commerce management, optimized marketing, sales performance management, single customer view.
SAP Agribusiness helps companies create transparent and sustainable food supply chains and farming efficiencies with digital technology. The world’s population continues to grow, demand is increasing for healthy and sustainable foods. To be successful businesses need smart solutions from farm to fork by running core business processes more efficiently.
Key capabilities of SAP Agribusiness are:
- Agricultural production and farming. Digital agriculture with the internet of things (loT) and farm management.
- Origination and trading. Agriculture origination, farmer collaboration, trading, and risk management.
- Commodity and food processing. Dairy management, manufacturing operations, and protein management.
- Food supply chain management. Demand management and insights, order promising, response and supply planning, sales inventory and operations planning, silo and warehouse management, farm to consumer traceability, transportation management, yard logistics.
- Marketing and sales. Collaborative sales force automation, commerce personalization, consent-based marketing, omni-channel commerce management, optimized marketing, sales performance management, single customer view.
To learn more about how SAP software can help your organization read the white paper on Value Creation in the Digital Agribusiness Network. Digitalization in the agribusiness sector significantly increased the ability to feed the rapidly growing world population in a sustainable way. The SAP Agribusiness roadmap includes intelligent solutions, and automated processes to help you run profitability and thrive with the mobility world of tomorrow. Including:
- Current release highlights
- SAP Logistics Business Network with material traceability for connecting the entire supply chain
- Integration of SAP Agricultural Contract Management with SAP S/4HANA supply chain for transportation management
- Ability to perform intelligent planning on milk components, instead of “raw milk only,” and with a milk balance sheet
- SAP Farm Management by Vistex for managing the business of farming
- Redesigned cycle-based production component providing data on ongoing growth and reproduction processes
- SAP Rural Sourcing Management mobile app, connecting smallholder farms in developing countries with global agribusiness companies
- Upcoming innovations
- New Fiori apps for SAP Agricultural Contract Management to create, maintain, price, and mass-price contracts
- Improved management and control of the affinage and cheese maturing process
- Integration of SAP Integrated Business Planning for supply chain with SAP Farm Management by Vistex
- Integration of SAP Integrated Business Planning for supply chain with SAP Grower Management for Perishables by Vistex
- Future Plans
- End-to-end cloud platform for digital farming
- Leverage innovative technologies like machine learning in agricultural ticketing
- Collaborate with partners in the consumer products industry to address recently added market requirements
Customized agribusiness solutions include:
- SAP Rural Sourcing Management. Supply chain management software connecting smallholder farms to the agriculture value chain, giving full transparency into the source of the raw materials.
- SAP Agricultural Contract Management. Flexible comprehensive contract support for agricultural commodities to track all expenses related to individual deals, consolidating complex statements, and automated processing.
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