Soex Flora : ERP Application

Headquartered in Mumbai and with a farm situated in Pune, Soex Flora has 13

polyhouses with a variety of flowers in a definite ratio. Each polyhouse is a

separate production unit with varying capacities. Every day the polyhouse needs

to focus on maintenance activities, fertilizer and chemical treatments,

appropriate cutting, first level grading and batch number marking. The cut

flowers are then transferred to the post-production process house, where grading

of flowers is carried out after which the flowers are packed and the batch

numbers market, before being refrigerated and dispatched.

The head office releases delivery instructions as per production and delivery

schedules received from its customers who are primarily auction houses and

wholesale buyers. Shipments are also chosen based on realizations made during

previous shipments to various auction houses. At this stage, the customers are

informed on the status. Till recently, Soex Flora's only implementation was

Tally. But it was essential for the company to monitor costs incurred on

cultivation, delegate suitable assignment of export related expenses to the

consignment and track every consignment to its origin. With its ERP deployment,

the company is seeing speedier deliveries and better supply chain management.