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| 1. What is ERP? |
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ERP stands for "Enterprise Resource Planning." The definition of enterprise resource planning is, essentially, an integrated software solution used to manage company's resources. It helps in efficient management the important business processes like budgeting and planning, production, maintaining inventories, sales, finance, HR and customer support. |
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| 2. Why you need an ERP software solution for Farm management? |
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Agricultural farm management may prove to be extremely critical as one need to follow all the business processes like budgeting and planning, production, maintaining inventories, sales, finance, HR, marketing etc. Using an ERP solution for farm management helps in integration of data, analysis, optimization of resources and decision making. It leads to run the business professionally. |
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| 3. What is FarmERP? |
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FarmERP is a multi-user, multi-location farm resource planning software suite. It is comprehensive farm management software developed for growers, agricultural institutions, agricultural universities, grower associations, exporters, consultants and government depts. It helps in generating reports compatible to the formats prescribed for GlobalGAP and other Quality Certifications. |
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| FarmERP Online is a internet based version of FarmERP. This solution is being used by agribusiness companies, contract farming agencies, agriculture produce procurement companies and exporters. It builds farmer database with unique user-id for every grower, along with procurement details and procurement schedules. It also consists of comprehensive set of farm management modules to be used by farmers if required. This solution will help minimize your data management worries at various levels of business operations. A strong reports module provides to be an excellent tool for decision making. Anytime, anywhere access to system is possible as it is web based and data resides on Central server. |
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| 4. Who are the typical users of FarmERP? |
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Typical users of FarmERP v2.1 are as follows; |
- Individual farmer grower/s
- Grower association/s, PMOs
- Government Agencies
- Agribusiness companies manufacturing seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals etc.
- Institutional farms, Research and development farms
- Pack-houses, exporters
- Contract farming agencies and consultants
- GlobalGAP / Organic certification growers
- Quality certification consultants
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Typical users of FarmERP Online are as follows; |
- Institutions and individuals managing multi location agricultural farms
- Agribusiness companies manufacturing seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals etc.
- Institutional farms, Research and development farms
- Contract farming agencies and consultants
- Grower association/s, PMOs
- Government Agencies
- Pack-houses, exporters
- GlobalGAP / Organic certification growers
- Individual farmer grower/s
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| 5. Why one must use FarmERP? |
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Globalization is strongly affecting agriculture and food industry to face new challenges, every coming day. Increasing competition and growing concern over food safety and quality has made it almost mandatory to agriculturists to follow professional and scientific farm management practices. FarmERP is an outcome of rigorous efforts put in by agriculture and IT industry experts. Use of FarmERP software suite and solutions lead to successful farm and farmer data management with additional benefits of cost and time savings. It makes all the stakeholders ready to take on global competition. |
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| 6. I am a grower and exporting fresh produce to foreign countries. How FarmERP will help me? |
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In order to comply to stringent quality norms followed by various importing countries and importers, you must have quality certifications ( eg. GlobalGAP and TNC ) to become eligible to export your produce. And for this you are required to keep the records of various activities done on the farm with all minute details. FarmERP software suite provides the facility to record each and every such activity with minute details, and generating auditor and user friendly reports. Use of FarmERP also improves your farm management skills and supports decision making. It saves on cost and time and helps optimize your resources. |
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| 7. We are a grower association / PMO and exporting fresh produce to foreign countries. How FarmERP will help us? |
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In order to comply to stringent quality norms followed by various importing countries and importers, you must have quality certifications ( eg. GlobalGAP and TNC ) to become eligible to export your produce. And for this you are required to keep the records of various activities done on the farm with all minute details. FarmERP software suite provides the facility to record each and every such activity with minute details, and generating auditor and user friendly reports. Use of FarmERP also improves your farm management skills and supports decision making. It saves on cost and time and helps optimize your resources.
FarmERP's multi-user version records data for multiple farmers with unique user id. As a grower association / PMO all your members' data can be maintained over single desktop PC. Reports for all growers can be made available at single location. |
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