Maintenance on the Books This Month

AGIIS Update

Maintenance on the Books This Month

By Chris Crutchfield, AGIIS Project Manager

Every year, the Ag Industry Identification System (AGIIS) undergoes a series of required maintenance activities spanning two separate weekends. The next round of maintenance will occur this month, so please carefully read the story below for important dates and activities.

On 7 December, we will apply updates from United States Postal Service with Locatable Address Conversion System (LACS) and National Change of Address (NCOA) updates. LACS updates occur when rural route addresses are updated with a street address to accommodate the 911 emergency service. NCOA updates occur when the postal service is made aware that a business or individual has changed addresses.

We will also run a process that standardizes addresses according to the United States Postal Service, and we will inactivate entities that are no longer in any subscriber subset.

On 14 December, we will perform our annual de-duplication process. During this maintenance, we identify records that are duplicates and determine a surviving record based on a set of prioritization business rules. Entities determined to be duplicates are inactivated.

Both maintenance activities will result in changes to some entities in AGIIS. Many subscribers will have entities in their subset that are impacted. Therefore, in addition to normal update extracts, subscribers will receive an additional extract with updates resulting solely from a maintenance activity.

To maintain synchronization with AGIIS and other trading partners, it is vital for subscribers to review these reports and determine if updates need to be made to their internal systems. Subscribers that would like to know more about the update process and synchronizing with AGIIS can contact Member Services at Member.Services@AgGateway.org.