How Joomla powers one of the biggest grain warehouses in
India
Ashwin DateCTO, [email protected]
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Agriculture The Indian Perspective
Agriculture in India goes way.. way back
India was for many years primarily an agrarian economy &
even today Agro still packs a punch
Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output.
Demographically still the broadest economic sector in India
Agrarian Business & Economy
A broad array of Businesses work in the Agro sector on various
Levels and India is one of the biggest markets for such companies
world wide
On one side, there are companies assisting production & on
the other the post harvest & food processing industries are
huge
Services like Financing, Crop insurance etc form another facet
of the market
Technology In Agriculture
High Tech comes to Low tech
Automated Weather Updates
Automated Market information services
Soil & Climate analysis based recomendations
Crop Monitoring
Automated Irrigation systems
Cloud based Data information services
These are just a slice of what goes !
Who ?
A huge foodgrain warehouse
Storage capacity of 20,000 MTON
Daily turnover of 10,000,000 rupees (~US$ 160,000)
Team
Specially assembled team
Having a country/farming background
Could understand problems better
Can communicate better with client
What did they need ?
Centralised system accessible over the web
Multi-user support parallel operations
Reports information at fingertips for business owners
Client Servicing Store information and provide updates
Hardware integration with existing weigh bridge system
What Joomla
Look ma, no CMS!
Joomla 1.5
Custom extension
Building Blocks
Billing
Client Manager
Reports
Advances
SMS Subscription
Crops & Rate Manager
Flow of material
Truck comes in & gets weighed up
Issued a weight slip
Counter punches in slip number
Workers unload truck
Empty truck weighed
Driver shows slip at counter and billing is processed!
Manage Crop Rates
Manage Crop Rates
Commodity Exchange sets recommended rate for crop
Business sets their own rate for the day
SMS Notifications
Farmers receive text notifications
Can make selling decision based on daily rate
Manage Clients / Farmers
Manage Clients / Farmers
Demographic information
Selling patterns
Send smart farming suggestions
Prevent fraud
Purchase of Grain
Purchase of Grain
Automated weight measurements
Lab tests
Choose crop
Different rates based on crop quality
Advances
Advance payment against grain
Farmers return the advance and sell grain when they get a better
price
Interest calculations using InnoDB transactions
How it helped
Efficiency improvement by leaps
Drastic reduction in paperwork
Real time and automatic reporting
Stock keeping
Planned for the Future
Realtime monitoring using cameras
Mobile reports
Thank You
Ashwin DateTwitter : @coolbung / @techjoomlaEmail :
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