SoftGroup® Granary 2007 is a software product designed for effective management, control and optimization of activities in grain depositories, public grainbases, and grain crops trading companies.
Introduction
SoftGroup® Granary 2007 is an information system for effective management, control and optimization of activities in grain depositories, public grainbases, and grain crops trading companies. With its comprehensiveness it fully meets the needs of the enterprises in this industry and is a key element of their optimal management and improved competitiveness. It is very similar to SoftGroup® Mill 2007 in its essence and interface but is based on a new, fundamental opportunity for work with more than one grain culture.
The program is built in four modules: Contracts, Weighbridge, Laboratory, Silos, and Accounting, each of them being functionally connected to the processing of the relevant part of the physical activities.
Additional options
- Full automation of manufacturing processes and eliminating the subjective factor;
- Automobile electronic weighing machine integrating, electronic laboratory devices, truck/lorry weighbridge measuring the raw materials coming in the factory, quantities of outgoing production, etc.;
- Possible constant control and a large number of reports through sorting, filtering and classifying by various criteria;
- Help in preparing compulsory information required by the National Grain and Fodder Service concerning the quality and quantity of grain crops by groups;
- Exporting of the data in a format convenient to use;
- Providing detailed additional information classified by subjects.
Modules
Weighbridge
The module serves the process of weighing out the grain quantities crossing the factory truck/lorry weighbridge. It provides detailed daily reports about the number and quantities of documents. They are processed by two non-modal forms (for incoming and outgoing documents) whose main functions are:
- Creating new documents for delivery or ordering of quantities of grain through choosing the partner and the number of the vehicle from the nomenclature, and filling in the relevant date, batch and representative.
- Reporting the quantities weighed gross and tare in succession depending on the nature of the activities.
- Generating a Lorry Receipt upon each delivery or order of a primary document. This module’s functionality includes the possibility for integration with electronic truck/lorry weighbridges to eliminate the subjective factor in weighing.
Laboratory
This module operates the activities performed in the factory laboratory. In each document created in the Weighbridge module (whether incoming or outgoing), the data from the laboratory analysis is filled in. The module operates with an unlimited number of cultures and analysis indicators since there is the additional possibility for them to be entered by the user as nomenclatures.
For each document there is the option for automatic calculation of the bonificated weight as per the Bulgarian National Standards. If the user so wishes, additional individual bonification methods for each culture can be set and used in particular circumstances (depending on the crop, the market conjuncture, etc.).
The module’s functionality includes the possibility for integration with electronic laboratory appliances so that the subjective factor in measuring is eliminated.
The module can print the following primary documents:
- Certificate of Quality – contains the analysis data for one document (one vehicle)
- Certificate of Quality by Day – contains the daily weighted average values from all supply documents of a given counterparty
- Summarized Analysis Certificate for a given period – contains a list of the daily analysis certificates for a period specified by the user. In the end, the weighted average of all values of the quality indicators from the Certificate of Quality by Day is presented. In this way the user quickly obtains accurate information about the quality of all supplies by a given counterparty for a certain period. This in turn contributes to extra flexibility and precision in negotiating purchase prices.
Silos
This module includes operations on entries of deliveries, orders and transfers of quantities of grain. It generates detailed reports regarding the movements of quantities, current availabilities, non-entered deliveries and free capacity about each silos.
Accounting
The module is designed for work at the company’s accounting department. It does not implement routine accounting operations but provides users with detailed price information and price reports. Its main functions are:
- Valuation of deliveries, orders and transfers of quantities of grain.
- Determining the appropriate status of each document: purchase, sale, safe-keeping.
- Balance for all partners showing summarized balances of BGN liabilities and receivables
- Balance for all partners showing liabilities relating to quantities in safe-keeping for each grain crop
- Changing the status of the quantities of grain (from safe-keeping to purchase) and valuation
- A possibility for transfer of quantities of grain in safe-keeping between partners affecting the values in their relevant balances
- Payment processing
- Printing of various kinds of primary documents: Records of delivery and reception (on delivery, sale, safe-keeping ordering), Record of internal transfer and Record of status change
- The module allows for a comprehensive vista on the whole document flow for each partner
