Introduction to the SAP Analytics Cloud

The SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is a platform which allows organizations with SAP Rural Sourcing Management system to gather business intelligence, plan for their business' future, and predict the success of possible business decisions.

Your organization’s Rural Sourcing Management system collects a lot of relevant data about farmers, crops, inputs, transactions, processes, etc. It is important for you to be able to access, use and analyze this data in a simple way so you can learn from and improve your organization and make rational decisions that are supported by data.

Using SAP Analytics Cloud, with Rural Sourcing Management system, you can:
  • Gather business intelligence - It organizes your data in way that helps you understand the business including what is working and what should be improved.
  • Plan for the businesses’ future - It helps you to analyze your business and plan future actions.
  • Predict the success of possible business decisions - It helps you forecast the outcome of different plans based on historical data so you can better decide which plans will make the business most successful.

The SAC uses “Dashboards”. Dashboards are information management tools used to visually track, view, organize, analyze and simulate data collected by your Rural Sourcing Management system. They display Key Performance Indicators (KPI), metrics and key data points using the data your system has collected.

The following sections provide information about 15 example dashboards that can be used to view, organize, and analyze data collected in Rural Sourcing Management system. In each of the dashboards, you will be able to see relevant data that supports the business and helps in making decisions which are critical for the health and success of the business. It is possible to customize each dashboard to only display the relevant and captured data that is useful for your purposes. It is also possible to customize the home dashboard to display the most important KPIs for your business.

It is important to note that only the data that is captured in your system can be displayed in the different dashboards and some KPIs may require specific combinations of captured data.


    Farmer Dashboard
    The Farmer Dashboard helps to give you an overview picture of the characteristics of a group of farmers, an individual farmer, or a farm.
    Payment Details Dashboard
    The Payment Details Dashboard provides you with the payment details for a specific farmer or all of the farmers within a specific organization.
    Overview of Payments Due Dashboard
    The Overview of Payments Due Dashboard helps you to see the total amount of money that all farmers within an organization should receive by a certain time.
    Productivity Dashboard
    The Productivity Dashboard helps to show you the productivity of all farmers in an organization or a specific farmer or farm.
    Farmer Development Plan Dashboard
    The Farmer Development Plan Dashboard helps to show you how farmers have been improving as a result of participating in training sessions and surveys.
    Delivery Dashboard
    The Delivery Dashboard helps to show all the deliveries from an individual farmer, a farmer’s farm, or all the farmers within an organization.
    Inputs Dashboard
    The Inputs Dashboard helps to show the inputs distributed to an individual farmer or to all the farmers in an organization.
    Product Movement Dashboard
    The Product Movement Dashboard digitally visualizes the movement of physical goods in the SAP Rural Sourcing Management system.
    Organizations Dashboard
    The Organizations Dashboard helps to show the different organizations in your SAP Rural Sourcing Management system and their product stocks such as crops and inputs.
    Season Dashboard
    The Season Dashboard helps you to see different Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) according to the agricultural seasons.
    Price Dashboard
    The Price Dashboard helps you see how prices for products have changed and developed over time. Products can be inputs or crops.
    Loan Dashboard
    The Loan Dashboard helps you see the loan applications for an individual farmer or all farmers within a specific organization.
    Certification Auditing Dashboard
    The Certification Auditing Dashboard helps you see the certifications for an individual farmer or all farmers within a specific organization.
    Coach Management Dashboard
    The Coach Management Dashboard helps you to see all the people who are coaches or trainers at your organization as well as their current training and survey assignments.
    System Management Dashboard
    The System Management Dashboard helps you to get an insight into the current operation of the SAP Rural Sourcing Management system.