First presented at Joomla World Conference 2013, this is an account of how we leveraged the Joomla framework to automate processes for a grain warehouse in India. The highlight is using Joomla 1.5 as an application development framework and not as a CMS.

1. How Joomla powers one of the biggest
grain warehouses in India

2. Ashwin Date
CTO, Techjoomla
@coolbung
www.techjoomla.com

3. My Joomla! connection
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5-star personality on the Joomla Forum
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Started using Joomla since Mambo days
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Helping out on the forums and bug squashing

4. Agriculture – The Indian Perspective
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Agriculture in India goes way.. way back
India was for many years primarily an agrarian
economy & even today Agro still packs a
punch
Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm
output.
Demographically still the broadest economic
sector in India

5. Agrarian Business & Economy
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A broad array of Businesses work in the Agro
sector on various Levels and India is one of the
biggest markets for such companies world wide
On one side, there are companies assisting
production & on the other the post harvest &
food processing industries are huge
Services like Financing, Crop insurance etc
form another facet of the market

6. Technology In Agriculture
High Tech comes to Low tech
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Automated Weather Updates
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Automated Market information services
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Soil & Climate analysis based recomendations
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Crop Monitoring
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Automated Irrigation systems
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Cloud based Data information services
These are just a slice of what goes !

7. Who ?
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A huge foodgrain warehouse
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Storage capacity of 20,000 MTON
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Daily turnover of 10,000,000 rupees (~US$
160,000)

8. Team
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Specially assembled team
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Having a country/farming background
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Could understand problems better
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Can communicate better with client

9. What did they need ?
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Centralised system – accessible over the web
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Multi-user support – parallel operations
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Reports – information at fingertips for business owners
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Client Servicing – Store information and provide
updates
Hardware integration with existing weigh bridge
system

10. What Joomla
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Look ma, no CMS!
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Joomla 1.5
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Custom extension

11. Building Blocks
Crops &
Rate
Manager
Billing
Client
Manager
SMS
Subscription
Advances
Reports

12. Flow of material
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Truck comes in & gets weighed up
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Issued a weight slip
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Counter punches in slip number
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Workers unload truck
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Empty truck weighed
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Driver shows slip at counter and billing is
processed!

13. Manage Crop Rates

14. Manage Crop Rates
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Commodity Exchange sets recommended
rate for crop
Business sets their own rate for the day

15. SMS Notifications
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Farmers receive text notifications
Can make selling decision based on daily
rate

16. Manage Clients / Farmers

17. Manage Clients / Farmers
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Demographic information
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Selling patterns
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Send smart farming suggestions
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Prevent fraud

18. Purchase of Grain

19. Purchase of Grain
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Automated weight measurements
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Lab tests
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Choose crop
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Different rates based on crop quality

20. Advances
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Advance payment against grain
Farmers return the advance and sell grain
when they get a better price
Interest calculations using InnoDB
transactions

21. How it helped
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Efficiency improvement by leaps
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Drastic reduction in paperwork
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Real time and automatic reporting
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Stock keeping

22. Planned for the Future
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Realtime monitoring using cameras
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Mobile reports

23. Thank You
Ashwin Date
Twitter : @coolbung / @techjoomla
Email : ashwin@techjoomla.com
http://www.slideshare.net/coolbung