Soex Flora : ERP Application

A flora company in Mumbai graduates from Tally to a Microsoft powered ERP solution, and enables computerization at every level

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Headquartered in Mumbai and with a farm situated in Pune, Soex Flora has 13 polyhouses with a variety of flowers in a definite ratio. Each polyhouse is a separate production unit with varying capacities. Every day the polyhouse needs to focus on maintenance activities, fertilizer and chemical treatments, appropriate cutting, first level grading and batch number marking. The cut flowers are then transferred to the post-production process house, where grading of flowers is carried out after which the flowers are packed and the batch numbers market, before being refrigerated and dispatched.

The head office releases delivery instructions as per production and delivery schedules received from its customers who are primarily auction houses and wholesale buyers. Shipments are also chosen based on realizations made during previous shipments to various auction houses. At this stage, the customers are informed on the status. Till recently, Soex Flora's only implementation was Tally. But it was essential for the company to monitor costs incurred on cultivation, delegate suitable assignment of export related expenses to the consignment and track every consignment to its origin. With its ERP deployment, the company is seeing speedier deliveries and better supply chain management.

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