Information and Communication Technology
NDDB focuses on developing innovative technology driven solutions to fulfil the unique requirements of Dairy Co-operatives. It provides Technical Support by developing and implementing need-based applications to be used by stakeholders.
Activities:
- Create, update and manage secure, scalable, IT infrastructure and computing environments to improve the productivity of users.
- Computerisation of business processes.
- Setting up standards/specification and providing procurement support for all IT components to be provided to End Implementing Agencies.
- End user training / Knowledge Enhancement.
Technical support for computerisation and setting up IT infrastructure to co-operatives/Producer Companies.
Automatic Milk Collection System – AMCS
Keeping in view the role of digital innovation in strengthening the dairy cooperative business, NDDB has developed Automatic Milk Collection System (AMCS) a robust, integrated, multiplatform, multilingual software solution for complete operations including financial inclusion at the Dairy Cooperative Society level. The solution is integrated at Union/Federation/National level to enable transparency and key informatics.
The solution is completely based on the Open Source technology stack. This solution has brought transparency to operations and improved process efficiency. The application automates the complete milk collection process and enables single-click milk collection operations. The automation avoids manual intervention, integrates with milk testing equipment and thereby improves milk quality.
The application will equip farmers and other stakeholders with relevant information in real time to enforce accountability at every step and improve processes. Farmers get instant SMSs for every transaction ensuring complete transparency and avoiding data manipulation. Farmers also have access to all past transactions with the AMCS Android application. The entire village DCS level data is also made available at the milk union portal enabling better planning and execution controls. More information is available at http://www.amcs.coop .
AMCS is currently being used in 12 states of INDIA covering more than 23760+ DCSs/MPPs and 11,01,200+ milk pourers for 50 plus installations.
NDDB Dairy ERP (NDERP)
To be resilient and agile, a modern business software system, NDDB Dairy ERP (NDERP) has been developed by customising an open source ERP based on the requirements of the dairy industry. It is a cost-effective integrated solution for small and medium types of organizations who can’t afford to implement proprietary ERPs in terms of cost and recurring licensing fees. It is integrated with Automatic Milk Collection Software (AMCS) and has all standard modules like Accounts, Purchase, Inventory, Sales, Production & Quality and HR & Payroll. It has been further extended to distributor level with Android/iOS App (mNDERP) and a Portal (iNDERP) integrated with it.
NDERP has been implemented in Jharkhand Milk Federation, West Assam Milk Union Ltd, Varanasi Milk Union, Karnataka Oil Federation, MRIDA Ltd, CALF Ltd and North East Dairy Foods Ltd.
It has been awarded as a “Winner” in the Research and Development Category in “International Dairy Federation Innovation Award 2022” at World Dairy Summit’ 2022.