Understanding the Major Capabilities of SAP Intelligent Agriculture

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe the key functionalities of the solution around Farm Data Management, Farming Capabilities and Farming Intelligence

Farm Data Management

Farm Data Management builds a solid foundation for all farming processes along the plan-to-harvest cycle. It enables agribusinesses to manage farming and field data consistently across the enterprise, and to easily integrate with the Intelligent Suite of SAP solutions.

Farm Data Management provides the following capabilities:

  • Enterprise-wide farming domain data and process model: Provides a unified domain data model, a single source of truth, where master and structured transactional industry specific data is stored.
  • Consistent process for managing farming data: Contains the base data model with all necessary farming-related entities to organize, track and store your data, collected daily.
  • Simple and open access to farming data through different roles: Provides easy access to stored data via maintenance user interfaces that enable companies to create, see and alter records based on their needs.
  • Powerful, ready-to-use APIs: Comes with a wide range of REST APIs that allow agribusinesses to connect various systems to SAP Intelligent Agriculture accessing and working with their data. All API definitions are published on SAP Business Accelerator Hub for customers and partners to easily discover, consume and test.
  • Support for side-by-side extensibility using the SAP Business Technology Platform.

Benefits of Farm Data Management

Farm Data Management delivers the following benefits:

Consistency in Farming Data

Enable productivity gains and value of data insights by improving the quality of your farming data. Connect existing data sets by establishing semantic consistency in your farming data.

Broken Farming Data Silos

Foster collaboration of different teams and stakeholders across your organization by enabling them to use a unified farming data set.

Increased Agility and Speed of Innovation

Increase the agility and speed to build, pilot, and implement innovations that help you differentiate by using powerful, simple, and clearly defined APIs. Keep a stable backbone for your farming data and processes while innovating efficiently.

Farming Capabilities

Farming Capabilities provide you with the right tools to plan and conduct farming activities along your growing season.

Screenshot of the Field Planning History screen. Step 2 - What? is selected. Here, you select how t ocreate a plan.

Planning can be seen as one of the main activities performed by farmers. The Field Planning and History app provides complete visibility of the farmed areas, allowing users to plan single or multiple areas at the same time. As a result of the planning process, crop zones, which represent which crops and varieties are farmed on a field in a specific season, are created and KPIs can be assigned.

Core Capabilities

  • Plan crops, varieties, and areas for future growing seasons.
  • Create plans manually or by using cropping systems.
  • Manage and apply crop rotations or more complex cropping systems to ease planning.
  • Automatically generate crop zones to schedule farming activities.

Task Management

The basis for all farming operations is proper task management. This functionality enables farm managers to capture and use task data alongside the farm planning, scheduling, and execution process. Organizations can schedule and process repetitive or ad-hoc farming tasks, assign resources, and track execution.

Screenshot of the task scheduling screen. The Field View tab is selected and sample tasks are shown in the calendar.

Core Capabilities

  • Manage farming activities alongside the growing cycle and provide an overview of current, past, and future activities.
  • Schedule farming tasks using a graphical planning chart and intuitive user interface, for example, with drag and drop to change the timing of tasks.
  • Manage tasks at a granular level, down to individual operations, and assign required resources and materials.
  • Customize filters and drill-down options to keep focus when managing large volumes of farming tasks.

Farming Cockpit

In their daily work, farming organizations are highly dependent on keeping an overview of what’s happening on their fields and farms. The amount of data collected on and off the field can be overwhelming and hard to structure. Bringing data into a geospatial context is crucial to manage farming processes. Merged with geolocational data, the farming cockpit is the steering component for farming operations.

Images of the farming cockpit on a laptop, a tablet, and a smartphone.

Core Capabilities

  • Get a map-based overview of farms, fields, and crop zones in their geospatial context.
  • Gain an overview of planned tasks directly in the cockpit.
  • Access associated information, such as task details, directly from the cockpit.

Benefits of Farming Capabilities

Farming Capabilities deliver the following benefits:

Increase Productivity in Farm Management

Increase productivity in managing, scheduling, and executing farming activities along the full growing cycle. Align users across your organization by enabling everyone to work using common farming plans and schedules.

Gain Transparency into Farming Operations

Keep a consistent and timely overview of what is happening in fields and on farms. Provide different user roles with the information that they need.

Enable Precise Farming Activity Management

Make the best use of farming resources and input materials by managing farming activities with a high level of granularity.

Farming Intelligence

Farming Intelligence supports agribusinesses in implementing robust strategies (build, buy, or partner) around farming decision support models over their full lifecycle, and in bringing estimations and actionable recommendations from these systems into farming processes and services. Farming Intelligence integrates expert Artificial Intelligence models of customers and partners into business processes, enabling data-driven decision support and global optimization of farming operations.

Using intelligent agriculture with agronomy and data science gives you the ability and flexibility to implement build, buy, and partner strategies per process.

Capabilities

  • Enable data-driven farming decision support.
  • Embed data science lifecycle management.
  • Provide end-to-end, data-to-recommendation process support.
  • Integrate AI models of customers and partners into business processes.
  • Assist in providing farming estimations and recommendations.

Benefits of Farming Intelligence

Farming Intelligence delivers the following benefits:

Digitalization of Your Farming experience

  • Develop valuable, differentiating, farming decision support models into corporate assets that drive farming efficiency and sustainability.
  • Accelerate the development of farming decision support models by leveraging your existing farming experience and data.

Accelerated Transition to Data-Driven Farming

Bridge the process and data gap between operational farming processes and decision support models by directly integrating actionable estimations and recommendations into the operational farming process.

Continuous Improvement of Decision Support Models

  • Set yourself up for the continuous improvement of decision support models.
  • Measure success while leveraging more data sources and optimizing model capabilities.
  • Manage and increase adoption of decision support models by implementing feedback loops.

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