Contract Farming

I. Introduction:

Many corporate houses who are in processing and distribution of food products would like to have uniform quality and timely procurement of inputs, like potato, gherkins, onions etc.., so that they can produce products with uniform standard and quality. Instead of buying their inputs from the open market they enter into an arrangement with farmer community, whereby they provide technical know-how, seeds, manure, pesticides and other support material to the farmers, ensure maximum yields per acre and buy the produce from the farmers at a predefined rate. They also value add to the crops procured, do re packing at international standards and export to different countries.

Profit Plus CF for contract farming helps such enterprises to automate their processes and overcome many practical challenges as listed below:

II. Profit Plus CF for Contract Farming – A complete Solution.

  • Challenge 1: The challenge starts from Identification of locations and farmers with fertile lands. Solution: Profit Plus CF for contract farming provides mobile app which geo-tags the farm plots and allows them to do the farmer registration on the site itself. The mobile app does the area audit also for the farm plots. The data integrates on line with the back end ERP system
  • Challenge 2: They need proper planning and forecasting to maximize the yield and reduce the wastage and cost. Solution : Profit Plus CF for contract farming provides for sowing plan and yield plan. This helps them to procure yields on time based on the customer demand. It also helps to plan logistics for procurement ensuring reduction in transport cost.
  • Challenge 3: Since crops are seasonal, supply of inputs should be within a short period. They need to ensure timely sowing, spraying and other activities. Solution: Sowing plan in Profit Plus CF for contract farming produces material purchase plan based on sowing weeks so that materials are procured and supplied on time to the farm sites.
  • Challenge 4: The Crops need to be monitored at various stages like pre sowing stage, vegetative stage, harvesting stage etc.. and ensure proper manure and pesticides are applied on time, to avoid crop failure. Solution : The mobile app provided in Profit Plus CF for contract farming will help them track the crop status at various stages and alerts are raised for timely action/reaction. It also provides weather forecast for area selected to ensure proper application of inputs.
  • Challenge 5: Since harvesting is of limited period, the arrangements of logistics for procurement has also to be planned properly. Solution : Profit Plus CF for Contract farming also helps to plan logistics for procurement ensuring optimization of transport cost.
  • Challenge 6: Since farmers are in huge numbers, the transactions of issue, payments and procurement are also huge in size which need to be handled till the final settlement with the farmers. Solution: Profit Plus CF for Contract farming is built on a robust ERP frame work which handles huge transactions with ease.
  • Challenge 7: There should be a proper co ordination between all departments like Agriculture dept., Purchase Dept., Stores, logistics dept., Procurement dept. and Finance dept. Solution: Profit Plus CF for Contract farming integrates all departments thru action dash boards, automated e-mails and SMS. It also integrates material suppliers and logistic providers prompting them to supply thru e mails and SMS,
  • Challenge 8: Monitoring of field staff is also a challenge, particularly when the acreage and the field executives are more. Solution: The mobile app provides for GPS based tracking of field staff and help them carry out their field activities as per the defined POP.
  • Challenge 9: With so much of data, They need a performance analysis to improvise the efficiency and yield resulting in cost reduction and better quality. Solution: Profit Plus CF gives various analysis reports such as sowing analysis, yield analysis, field staff analysis, stock movement analysis, production recovery analysis etc..
  • Challenge 10: They need access of data from wherever they are and keep the business at their finger tips Solution: All KPIs are provided to the management thru mobile app to control the business from wherever they are.

III Profit Pluds CF – the scope:

Agri-Planning
  • Master Sowing Plan
  • Month Sowing Plan
  • Yield Plan
  • Sowing Forecast
  • Yield Forecast
Agri-Operations
  • Field Activities
    • Farmer Registration
    • Sowing Crop
    • Stages
  • Material Issues & Return
  •  Crop Procurement
  • Farmer Payments
  • Farmer Accounts
Logistics
  • Local Transportation
  • Factory Transportation
Purchase Management
  • Purchase Indents
  • Purchase Orders
  • Goods Received Entry
  • Purchase Bills
  • Purchase Returns
Inventory Management
  • Stock Transfer – Field Staff, Warehouses
  • Stock Reconciliation
Accounts Management
  • Farmer Accounts
  • GL Accounts
  • Field Staff Accounts
  • BRS Entry
  • GST Module
MIS Reports & KPI Reports
  • Sowing plan vs Actual
  • Yield forecast vs Actual
  • Crop wise yield efficiency
  • Detailed cost sheet
  • Cost per Kg of end crop
Mobile App
  • Farmer Registration
  • Geo Tagging & Area Audit
  • Generate Prescription
  • Spraying Activity
  • Alerts
  • Message Broadcasting
  • Crop Transactions – Inputs, Returns, Purchases, Payments
  • Crop Summary

IV Profit Plus CF – The technology Benefits:

The ERP is built on a completely new platform called Auvit BPA which gives you many benefits as listed:

The Cost

To bring down the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) which includes cost of Licenses, Implementation, Customization (during and post implementation), Auvit BPA converts business processes into a working business software without the need for writing thousands of lines of coding.

In effect, a month’s effort of software development/customization has been reduced to one or two day’s efforts and thousands of lines of program coding gets replaced by a few hundred lines of process definitions.

This means the customer need not pay or wait for a month, but just pay and wait for a few days, during & post implementation ensuring great savings.

The Fitting

Auvit BPA platform makes the customization process simple and quick so that all the critical customization requirements, which are specific to a customer, can be accommodated during the implementation with very less cost and time.

This makes the solution almost 96% fit to the customer.

The Future

Post go-live, major problems faced by the customer in using enterprise software is that as the business processes change due to growth or due to external and internal factors, the software is not agile enough to accommodate the changes.

Auvit BPA platform created by Bluechip helps in changing solution quickly and cost effectively making the software grow with the needs!

The Success factor

Compared to the industry average of 46% ERP implementation success rate, Year after year Bluechip has achieved 96% success rate for the last 4 years consecutively!

That means going with Bluechip guarantees SUCCESS and protects the huge investment made in Enterprise solutions.
Reliability

As long as you use an enterprise solution, your dependency on the vendor for maintaining and customizing the solution for new requirements is mandatory. You, as a customer may feel there is too much of dependency on the vendor.

To address this issue, Bluechip does lease its BPA platform to corporate customers having internal IT team to make them self-dependent.

CLOUD Advantage

Today, this is one of the most talked about topic in IT and Enterprise sector. CLOUD offers a great advantage in converting huge capital cost into affordable monthly operating cost, in addition to offering many other benefits. It incorporates latest security technologies to ensure secured CLOUD access.

Controlling the business from anywhere in the World

An enterprise today needs to take informed decisions quickly based on real time and validated information. The ERP solution provides access to the information system through Web and Mobile platform anywhere from the world. All Business KPIs, Deviations, Approvals can be seen and executed with your smart phones or Pads or lap tops from anywhere.

Software to Drive the Enterprise

The new ERP is not just a set of entry screens and reports. It is built to drive the business. It triggers all the actions required to implement business processes of an organization.

  • It ensures all the actions are carried out on time
  • Everyday tasks as Action Dash Boards
  • Timely alerts for actions via mail / SMS any other mode
  • Escalation of Delayed / missed actions
  • Easy interface to launch the actions from the dash boards
  • Almost Pre-populated input screens, removing complete data redundancy.
  • Ensures no time lag between enterprise processes increasing overall efficiency to a great level.
The Domain expertise

The last most important point is to select a vendor who knows the domain fully, a vendor who has successfully implemented in a similar domain, and a vendor who acts as a domain consultant.

Bluechip updates itself continuously and always abreast with the new technologies which keep coming to the IT space. Starting with DOS, the journey was like DOS to WINDOWS to CLIENT SERVER to WEB to CLOUD to MOBILE APP to Tomorrows technology in R&D.

The enterprise solutions from Bluechip incorporates all the new technologies for development, GUI, Data Base, Security, Cloud deployment, Analytics etc.