Kerala State Poultry Development Corporation : Integrated Financial Accounting System

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.

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.