Industry Rice
is the most dominant food produce in India. A Rice Mill purchases rough
rice from area farmers, then de-husked and polished. The edible superfine
quality product is resold in the domestic or export market complying with
the statutory sale guidelines of the Government of India. Rice bran is a
valuable byproduct, which is an important raw material of the solvent
extraction industry. Husk also gains prominence in value with the
mushrooming of power plants.
The
rice mills are clustered in the rich fertile cropping areas for apparent
business reason of minimum raw material transportation cost.
This
industry has a unique multi-tiered selling system comprising of a network
of dealers and agents. A dealer may buy the product through any agent or
directly.
A
huge overhead on voluminous and redundant book keeping by virtue of the
milling process.
It
is a seasonal industry involved with a high volume of production and
demands efficient control on variable costs to maximize profitability.
RicePak
is a user friendly online management system for the rice mill industry
that brings enormous efficiency and value-addition to the customers in the
face of the stringent guidelines of the Government of India, the
voluminous and redundant book-keeping and the stiff competition in the
rice miller industry.
Features
Online Management System
Serial interface to the weighbridge (developed in-house)
Multi-tiered selling system
Analytical tools for control on Sales and Purchases
Productivity performance analysis on batches/cropping areas
Automatic periodic generation of reports required by various Statutory bodies of the Government
Food Corporation of India
Civil Supplies Department
Agricultural Market Committee
Food Inspectorate
Weights and Measures Department
Labour Department
Inspectorate of Factories
Inspectorate of Boilers
Commercial Tax Department
Income Tax Department
Byproduct inventory management
>100 User input screens
>150 Reports
Development Model
A Focus Group was formed comprising of Procedure Oriented Rice
Millers, Industry Advisors, System Analysts and Software Engineers to
design the system for the rice mill management. A system development
strategy was used to develop this application.
Platforms & Technology
Hardware :
Operating System :
RDBMS :
Front-end :
Intel–Pentium, IBM-PC
Windows Platform (95/98/NT)
SQL Server / MS-Access
Visual Basic
Current Action Web
enabling the product taking advantage of the internet availability and
facilitating the rice millers to form a close user group on the net.
Support TIL
provides quality structured training and full support for all
installations. Our solid in-house expertise in hardware and software
platforms gives TIL clients the flexibility, reliability and
accountability they need.
