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Kerala State Poultry Development Corporation : Integrated Financial Accounting System
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
The biggest government outfit which looks after poultry based operations in
Kerala has automated its financial accounting operations, ensuring increased
business efficiency, and going a step further in ensuing fund seepage to
individual workers. The Indian Council of medical research came out with a
finding that the consumption of egg and poultry products in India is way below
expected norms, and led KEPCO to undertake the dual task of promoting chicken
rearing, and in turn empowering rural women in Kerala to take up poultry-based
jobs, across KEPCO's own farms, besides ensuring transparency in business
processes connected to KEPCO.
For the latter, KEPCO embarked last year on what it called an Integrated
Financial Accounting Information System, a Visual Basic and .NET based
application which monitors the business value emerging out of each process
involved in chicken rearing, production/distribution of eggs and other poultry
by products.
The aim of the home grown supply chain management tool, created in
collaboration with National Informatics Center (NIC), is also towards the social
cause to ensure that relevant funds reach the workers, and requirements for
newer funds are justified by business.
Like any other Supply Chain Management package, the Integrated Financial
Accounting Information System has ensured transparency and reduction in profit
leakage, and more importantly, in identifying the not-so-profit-making
departments of the industry.
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M A
Padmakumar,
Technical Director, NIC |
KEPCO, in the months to come, also plans to incorporate its internal employee
processes and increase the 'technological bandwidth' towards information on
allocated funds, subsidies and government profits and passing them on directly
to the workers in KEPCOP's own and affiliated farms spread across the state.
Interestingly, all this is currently done using only a Linux server and a
couple of IBM client machines.
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