Manage Challenges in the Agro Industry with an ERP System
For centuries Agriculture has been the lifeline of any country, with a growing population, demand for agricultural products is increasing and so too is the need for technology which helps in improving the yield and productivity. Odoo ERP Software helps streamline every process from farm operations, finance, procurement, production to distribution – efficiently maintaining business operations, ensuring product quality, tracking costs and accounting, facilitating the inventories and managing the supply chain and distribution. Agribusiness groups consistently need to invest in and adopt the latest technologies in the market to ensure premium quality products, high production rate and less operational costs.
Odoo ERP Software – Key Functionality for Agri-Business
Farm Profile
Farm profile module helps in mapping the crop and land infrastructure of your farms. It helps you to maintain details of farm land, number of sites, plots, packhouses, and cold storages, along with geo coordinates. Tree encoding can also be done in case of horticulture plantations.
Contract Farming
Contract Farming deals with farmer registration, creating contracts, procurement and recording of goods issued or services provided to farmers. It provides contract farming companies with crops of their desired quality and ensures improved incomes for farmers. Odoo can help in optimizing these contracts to ensure better market exposure for smallholders and improved agricultural outcomes.
Planning
Planning module enables users to create crop schedules or package of practices and apply these plans by allocating the tasks to farm workers and supervisors. Users can also keep a record of all the tasks allocated in a task calendar. Odoo helps agribusinesses to plan their farm activities more efficiently with high-tech ERP features.
Production
Production module helps in keeping track of farm-level or greenhouse activities as well as recording the use of on-field resources. It also assists in capturing the plot-wise and activity-wise details of man, machinery and material. With the production module , field observation processes also become a lot simpler with on-field photographs and videos. Odoo streamlines the production activities of agribusinesses by offering a range of effective agritech solutions.
Post Production
Post production involves post harvest processes such as quality control, packhouse operations, cleaning, grading, processing, packing. It also deals with converting raw materials to finished goods and tracking wastage or pilferage. Odoo optimizes the post production cycle of agribusinesses to ensure maximum returns for their agriproducts.
Quality Control
Quality control module helps you to create your own quality parameter templates and define various quality control stages for your crop production processes. With field QC, arrival QC and finished goods QC, Odoo helps you to perform quality checks at various production and post production stages. Users can also keep assessment records and determine results of batch-wise quality checks.
Purchase
Purchase module deals with purchase related operations such as purchase requests and purchase order. This module enables users to easily procure materials as well as services as per their requirements.
Inventory
Inventory module simplifies the tracking of stock levels across multiple farms, multiple sites and multiple stores. Users are enabled to issue and receive goods as well as transfer, return or even discard of goods with this module. It also helps in ensuring cost-savings by keeping inventory at minimum levels.
Sales
Sales module covers the processes of sales booking, sales order, and delivery and dispatch. It enables the sale of finished goods with the help of customer-wise order management. This module is linked with the inventory module so inventory levels are updated after every successful sale.
Accounts
Accounting module helps users in keeping track of all their accounting transactions and enables them to make better decisions. Complete account-keeping and financial report generation can also help in having good control over finances. Odoo helps in maintaining the financial well-being of farms with its effective accounting module.
Farmer Extension
Farmer extension helps in strengthening the capabilities of farmers with the transfer of adequate agricultural knowledge and skills. It involves the recording of training programs and farmer visits. Farmer extension keeps farmers updated about the latest trends and educates them on how to capitalize on them.
Analytics
Analytics module can play a vital role in transforming your agricultural data into powerful decision making tools. With AI-based predictive analytics, this module can help in employing the right procedures to improve farm efficiency and crop productivity. The provision of complex agricultural metrics in the form of data visualizations can also help users in making better decisions.
CRM & Marketing
Stay ahead of competitors with opportunity and pipeline management, customer relationship management and campaign management.
Service Maintenance
Maintenance and in-house service of all farm and plant equipment. Maintain preventive maintenance schedules and ad hoc repairs job cards integrated with inventory and purchasing for sub contracted maintenance.
Weight Bridge Integration
Improve controls by ensuring actual net weights get recorded during good receipts, transfers or dispatch. This can be integrated with Tag to ensure the entire process requires minimal human input.
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