The complexity of the seed industry is continuing to grow with trait reporting,and many businesses are finding it tough doing business in the conventional labor intensive manner.  The SC project is designed to enable the industry’s electronic connectivity capability and provide increased efficiency and cost savings.

Stage 2 of the Seed Connectivity Project will implement transactions for ShipNotice, Invoice, Product Movement, DeliveryConfirmation (optional), and DeliveryConfirmationResponse (optional), using XML messages between participating trading partners that follow the standards and implementation business rules established within the project.  Participants may choose to implement XML messaging using either ebMS 2.0 and/or WS-I profile compliant web services protocols.

The Seed Connectivity (SC) Project has eleven committed organizations:  Agrium Retail, Bayer CropScience, Brandt, GROWMARK, Inc., Land O’Lakes (Winfield Solutions), Dow AgroSciences, Hintzsche Fertilizer, Monsanto Company, Pioneer International Hi-bred, Syngenta Seeds and Wilbur-Ellis.

Implementation of transactions between trading partners is planned to be completed in 2009.

For further information on the Seed Connectivity Project contact Project Coordinator, Marilyn Hunter, at marilyn@aggateway.org, or (916) 429-0509.