PROFIT Plus FM for Flour Mills
I. Introduction:
As the competition and the customer demand increases in terms of cost, quality and time, the food processing Industries like Flour Mills are unable to manage their business with just a simple accounting and inventory management software. They need many business processes to be automated to have complete control over cost and delivery time and ensure that the customer demands are met in terms of cost, time and quality.
PROFIT Plus FM is a complete CLOUD based ERP
system for Flour Mills created using latest technologies, integrating factories, sales offices, management teams where ever they are and deliver a
number of advantages as listed below:
II. PROFIT Plus FM - Advantages:
- PROFIT Plus FM covers all the functions of Flour mills like Wheat Procurement, Sales and distribution, Production with multiple formulae, Packing in multiple SKUs, Inventory management at multiple ware houses, Finance with multiple currencies, Export, Import, Taxation, HR, Plant maintenance etc..
- PROFIT Plus FM brings transparency of Information across the Enterprise with privilege of access.
- PROFIT Plus FM helps the user to manage different types of wheat procurement contracts and tracks the rate and other additional expenses to help them arrive at the actual cost of wheat as it lands at the mill.
- PROFIT Plus FM allows the user to have multiple price list for different customers. It also manages period based multiple discount schemes product wise/area wise/ customer wise and applies it properly to the eligible customers. In addition, there is also a proper credit control
- system in terms of credit limit and credit days. Further, if necessary, management can apply temporary exemption for deserving customers.
- PROFIT Plus FM, tracks the sale targets with the actual sales. Targets can be created Customer wise/Product wise etc.
- PROFIT Plus FM can be integrated with weigh bridges to have control over the actual weight and calculated weight of the loads going out.
- PROFIT Plus FM handles all mixing formulae and output ratios for grinding. It measures whether the actual outputs are as per the ratios mentioned in the formulae.
- PROFIT Plus FM, in addition, has Gunny stock management, Fumigation schedule management etc.
- PROFIT Plus FM handles QC in detail at all levels for raw material, in process and finished products with different frequencies like hourly, shift wise, week wise etc..
- PROFIT Plus FM tracks all actions thru action-dashboards and user can launch any action from the dash board itself.
- PROFIT Plus FM also escalates actions not carried out on time to the higher management so that there are no slips anywhere till the end of a process.
- PROFIT Plus FM integrates e mails, SMS and Action Dash boards to automate the information flow between persons, departments, customers and suppliers.
- PROFIT Plus FM displays all KPIs in graphical dashboards to the management. Also the system can send automatic emails of MIS Reports to the management for daily/weekly Reviews.
- PROFIT Plus FM employs the latest security technology for data access and transfer.
- PROFIT Plus FM with its rich predefined features has Shortest implementation time.
III. PROFIT Plus FM - Scope
Wheat Purchase
- Wheat Sample Receipt
- Whet Lab Test
- Wheat Market Price Update
- Wheat Contract
- Wheat Domestic Purchase Bill
- Wheat Import Purchase Bill
- Railway Receipts
- Wheat Clearance
- Wheat Goods in Transit
- Wheat Godown/Mill Receipt
- Wheat Bill Reconciliation(Wheat MIN Preparations)
- Wheat Debit/Credit Note
- Wheat Contract Completion
- Wheat Transfer
- Wheat Fumigation
Grinding
- Production input/output formulae management
- Routing Management
- Production order
- Process Issue
- Process Production Entry
- Output ratio actual verses formula
- FG Fumigation Process
Retail Packing Production
- Retail
Packing Production order - Material
Request - Issue
- Retail
Production Entry - Receipt
Sub Contracting
- Outsourcing any process or group of processes
- Inventory Management at sub contractor’s location
- Rate Contracts Management(for sub contracting)
- Sub Contractor Billing
- DC – GRN Matching
- E way bill generation
- Waste accounting at
Subcontractor’s place.
Gunny Bag Management
- Gunnies receipt
- Gunnies issue
- Gunnies Rework Process
- Gunnies Clearance
- Gunnies stock management
Gunny Bag Management
- Gunnies receipt
- Gunnies issue
- Gunnies Rework Process
- Gunnies Clearance
- Gunnies stock management
Inventory Management
- Multiple Warehouse Management
- Inventory Set Up
- Third party stock Maintenance
- Integration
- Stock movement between branches
- Lot/serial no. Management
- Stock audit and reconciliation
- Raising dynamic purchase indent to the
Purchase department - Reporting
Purchase – Stores
- Purchase Indent management
- Quotation Management
- Purchase Rate Contract
- Purchase Order
- Receipts of goods
- Purchase Billing
- Controls on direct Purchase
- Purchase Return
- Purchase Discrepancy management
- Debit notes/Credit Notes
- Vendor Analysis
Sales
- Price List management
- Credit Control
- Sales Rep incentive
- Sales Discount schemes
- Sales Budget
- Sales Order
- Dispatch Advice
- Invoice
- Miscellaneous sales
- Sales Return
- E-way bill update
- Vehicle Gate Pass
Plant and Maintenance
- Activity Detail Plan – for ELECTRICAL and MECHANICAL dept
- Schedule
- Allocation
- Internal Operations
- Machine Breakdown
- EB Consumption
Gate [for material movement]
- Gate Pass Issue
- Gate Pass Receipt.
Customer Complaint
- Customer Complaint Entry
- Visit Record
- CAR Entry
- Customer feedback
Finance
- Accounts
as visual tree - Multiple Currency Management
- Day books
- General Ledger
- Trial Balance and Accounts tree
- Profit and Loss Statement
- Balance Sheet
- Receivable
- Payable
- Cash flow, Fund Flow, Working capital
- Cheque books management and Printing
- GST
- TDS
- VAT
- Depreciation
- PDC Management
- Cost Centres
- Budget
- Multiple financial Year
- Multi – level approvals
- Multiple branches
- Multiple currencies
HR
- Integration with Swipe machines for login management
- Configurable Pay codes, Pay Periods, Shifts, Leaves, Etc..
- Employee Master
- Pay Code Management
- Shift management
- Leave management
- Loan Management
- PF, ESI,PT return and forms
- Pay process
- Bonus
- Promotions, Resignations, Transfers Management
Fixed Assets Management
- Fixed asset master
maintenance - Fixed asset tracking
- Fixed asset depreciation
calculation using SLM and WDV methods - Fixed asset revaluation
- Fixed asset disposal
- Fixed asset transfer
- Fixed asset value addition
- Fixed asset reconciliation
IV. PROFIT Plus FM - The technology Benefits:
PROFIT Plus FM 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 mplementation), 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 MOBLE 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.