Procurement of seeds, Quality Control, and yield measurement and controls are key concerns in Edible Oil industry.

Lighthouse ERP^TM has effectively addressed processes such as procurement through Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) contracts, Direct contracts with traders and large farmers, Quality linked Bill passing, Debit/ Credit notefor dispatches not within stipulated duration.

Lighthouse ERP^TM also focuses on handling multiple SKUs in production and sales, Depot/ Branches, broker wise sales.

Lighthouse ERP^TM caters to following key processes in Solvent extract.

• Purchase Management Records for Different types of Purchases i.e. Registered Dealers, Un-Registered Dealers (URD) Mandi Purchase (Kanta - Patti Management, Stock reconciliation) with Quantity of seeds received (both in Gunny Bags & Seed Weight).
• Auto Generation of Debit/ Credit Note based on Quality received.
• Brokerage against the Quantity & Grade of seeds received.  
• Broker wise pending purchase order.
• Multi Stage Quality Test Report for raw material. Average Quality Test Report for Multiple GRN and integrated with Bill Passing
• Seed Recovery Report of projected Seed Recovery based on GRN wise samples, from received and accepted seeds, against actual seed recovery from GRN wise seed issued for production.
• Plant & Shift wise Oil Production using Tank Dip Measurement.
• Capturing day wise production and sales records of Crude Oil, Refined Oil & DOC etc.
• Sales Contract, Delivery Orders, Dispatches and Domestic/ Export Invoicing
   

The modules covered under the scope for Solvent Extraction Industry are as follows :

1.   Finance & Accounts

• General Ledger/ Accounts Receivables/ Payables
• Bill Tracking – Allocations
• Bank Reconciliation
• Provisional Journals
• Expense Analysis
• MIS- Balance Sheet, P&L, Trial Balance, Cash Flow, Fund Flow etc.

2.   Taxation

• Service Tax / VAT/ CST
• Excise
• TDS/ FBT
• Entry Tax
• Forms Tracking like C-forms, Waybills etc 

3.   Security Gate Management

• Inward Register for all vehicles/ Outward Register
• Generation of Loading & Unloading Slips
• Report of all Vehicles in Plant

4.   Weighbridge Automation

• Weighment Advice creation for Inward/Outward Material at Security Gate
• Linking of Weighment Slip with weighment advice
• Direct data acquisition from electronic WB machine to ERP
• Multiple weighment option for a single vehicle carrying different products
• splitting Weighment slips in GRNs for more than one PO.

• Indents including Auto indents
• Vendor Registration
• Generation of Enquiry or Requests for Quotations (RFQ)
• Generation of Comparative Statement Quotation comparison
• Purchase Order with facility of Amendment, Cancellation & Reminders
  

• GRNs for new, converted, rejected and repaired material
  Issues against department Requisitions, non/ chargeable Contractor,Loan
• Inter Division Transfers
• Division and Company wise Pipeline, Quality Approved Goods, Rejected and Repaired Material Stock.
• Physical Stock verification/ Tools and Tackles Management
• Generation & Tracking of Gate passes for Non-returnable, returnable, repair, conversion material.

• Categories of Purchases like URD/RD/Mandi etc.
• Purchase Order In two stages - Unapproved P.O. entry and subsequent approval by authorized executive.
• Provisions to input test code wise quality for each product and auto debit note/credit notes
• Provision for several Live Amendments of rates, quantity and other element to the P.O. based on the concept of From-Date and To-date
• Auto calculation of Brokerage amount, based on brokerage rate master.
• Brokerage rates definition for a broker, a product, on unit of measurement.
• Online updated from GRNs
• Pending order status reports item wise/Party wise/Delivery date wise etc.
• Control of purchase orders, of valid up to date.
• Declaration of gunny bag terms
   

• Multi GRNs linked to weighbridge
• Raw Material wise/ group wise stock
• Cash Freight Payment advice auto generation from the GRN.
• Capturing of grade wise gunny bag details for every GRN
• Identification of godown and Stack at the time of GRN preparation
• Maintaining of stocks at godown and stack levels.
• Identification of stocks with relation to its quality parameters
• Linking and reconciliation of GRN with kanta patti in the case of mandi purchases
• List of Pending GRNs awaiting inspection, valuation, approval in age wise and other formats
• Bill Passing for multiple GRNs linked with QC details
  Landed value computation
• Finished Goods to Raw material conversion
• Stock adjustments/ Ground Loss 

• Linked with Sales order/ Purchase Order/ Sales/ GRNs/ Weighment slips
• Options available to capture QC details, for vehicle not entered in factory premises (Counter–QC).
• Capturing process wise qc details in production
• Multi GRNs linking form one QC report.
• Printing of QC Reports with GRNs.
• Detailed analysis of test parameters
• Auto calculation of deductions/bonus amount at the time of Purchase Bill processing as per the conditions defined in Purchase Order

• Daily Consumption/ Production Entry for different plants
• Production entries linked with bill of materials
• Seed Oil recovery reports based on QC inputs
• Capturing of breakdowns, man power utilization and store consumables consumed
• Capturing of tank dip reading
• Capturing of details of packing department
• Capturing of stock movements in and between plants and godowns
• Special Daily MIS on YTD/MTD/DTD basis

11.   Sales & Marketing

• Two level sale order booking, contracts and delivery orders
• Sales Order In two stages - Unapproved Sale Order entry and subsequent approval by authorized executive.
• Provision for Contract and Sales Order Cancellation and Re-opening.
• Online updated from delivery order and Sales Invoices for Quantity executed
• Item / Party wise Pending Contract and Sale Order status
• Control of credit limit while preparation of delivery orders.
• Depot Transfer and Consignment sales
• Sales Broker Management

12.   HRM & Payroll

• Employee Data with qualification, previous jobs, family, hobbies etc.
• Appraisals; Tour & Training details
• Muster Roll with OT, C-off
• Shift Management/ Leave Management/ Loan Management
• Payroll Generation with Auto Arrears
• Statutory Forms of PF/ ESCI/ Professional Tax/ Wage Register etc.
• Gratuity Calculation
• Income Tax Computation with Form-16 generation

13.   Freight Management

• Freight Contract
• Cash Freight Advice and Payment
• Credit Freight Management for Inward and Outward bound material

 14.   System Administration (DBA)

• Configuration Management
• Security Management- User rights and controls
• Data Freezing
• Tests for data entry errors and rebuilding
• Backup Management
• Rectification of procedural errors like allowing editing after approvals.
• Accounting year carry forwarding routines