erp for rice based bioethanol production industry

ERP software for Ethanol Manufacturing Industry

Lighthouse ERP for Biofuels Industry is designed to streamline all the operations and processes in the industry. Lighthouse ERP software is constantly upgrading and evolving for 35+ years to meet modern industry requirements. Lighthouse Info Systems provides cost-effective ERP software for Ethanol Manufacturing. Lighthouse Biofuel ERP delivers outstanding performance with impeccable services to improve the efficiency of operations in Ethanol Manufacturing.

To achieve energy security and to transition to a low-carbon economy, the Government of India brought a National Policy on Biofuels in 2018 under the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) program and set a target of 20% blending of ethanol in petrol by 2030.

Several Industry Players have set up grain or molasses-based bio-ethanol plants to cater to this demand for ethanol blending in petrol arising from government regulations.

The Biofuel Industry has the following operations process flow

The grain-based ethanol plant process will have the following steps, namely - Grain Receipt and Storage, Grain Handling and Milling, Slurry Preparation/Liquefaction, Saccharification and Fermentation, Multi-Pressure Distillation, MSDH, Decantation, Multi-Effect Evaporation, DDGS Dryer &Product Storage.

Biofuel manufacturing plants also utilize raw water, steam, power, plant air, instrument air, and nitrogen.

The industry uses grains such as damaged food grains, such as broken rice & maize as basic raw materials.

Besides this, processing chemicals are used for the production of Ethanol. Along with Ethanol, Biofuel plants also produce byproducts such as CO2, Fusel Oil, DDGS, Corn Oil.

Through Lighthouse ERP, Ethanol Industries can achieve

Effective Production Planning & Control

Production in each batch with Lot & Godown Control

Production planning: Item BOM, Monthly Production Schedule, process parameters like temperature, pressure etc.

Standard to actual yield calculations to manage variance analysis.

Quality Control

Accurate MIS on Inventory based on Raw material Quality.

Sophisticated and Accurate MIS on Production Costing / Plant Performance.

PLC & DCS Integration with ERP.

Efficient Supply Chain

Quality Labs Integration for Raw material & Finished Product Testing.

Accurate raw material costing based on rates of different types of Grain/ Molasses & their expected recovery.

All inward and outward movement is tracked at Security Gate, Weighbridge, Quality lab and store/ yard locations.

Control of Material Stock at Raw material Stock Yard, Crusher, discharge area and bagging area.

Plant movement

various scenarios including Inward, Outward, Stores Related, Purchase or Sales Return, Inter-Yard Transfers, Waste or Scrap movement etc.

Carry out batch-wise semi-finished and WIP pricing while ERP for manufacturing.

Complete Financial Control

Per Tonne costing based on Raw Material, Consumables, Cost of fuel, Electricity.

Manage Division wise & consolidated finance books Costing/ efficiency, Ledgers & Profitability. Inter division Sales & Purchases on a real-time basis.

Accounts approval and bill passing for Purchase, Services (job work/ contractors) or Freight scenarios.

Various Stock MIS with 10 level drill down.

Group->Entity->Division->Plant->Dept->CostCenter->Equipment->Item Group->Item->Issue Slip.

Uninterrupted Sales & Dispatch

Multi-level order cycle - at Contract and Sales Order - to meet tender-based delivery schedule.

Delivery orders can be made on the basis of Sales Orders with the details of the actual product to be dispatched to a specific location- depot (with Grade wise product details).

Sales Invoicing is generated instantly, by linking to Weighslips and Delivery Orders.

Complete Control of Freight orders and Freight Cost.

Why Lighthouse ERP?

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