Requirements checklist
What to ask for when choosing software for rice mills.
A checklist built from how rice mills work, to print or save as a PDF and bring to any supplier meeting.
What the software should cover
Tick each one that matters to your business.
- Weighbridge and paddy intake
- Drying and parboiling log
- Milling yield by lot
- Grading and bag filling
- By-product sales
- Dispatch and receivables
Roles that need their own access
Who logs in, and what each person may see or change.
- For weighbridge clerks
- For mill operators
- For warehouse keepers
- For accounts staff
- For owners
Reports to ask for
Ask to see each one with your own sample data.
- Milling yield by paddy lot and variety
- Broken percentage by polisher setting
- Paddy purchased by supplier with moisture readings
- Bran, husk and broken rice sold by buyer
- Bag stock by variety, grade and stack
- Wholesaler balances, oldest first
Systems it may need to connect to
Note which ones you already run.
- Weighbridge scale import
- SMS
- Barcode and label printing
- Accounting export
Questions for any vendor
Put these to every supplier you are comparing.
- Can it record moisture on each paddy load?
- How is milling yield calculated?
- Can we log parboiling times?
- Does it value bran and husk?
- Can the scale feed the weight in directly?
- Can it follow bags by stack position?
- Does it handle custom milling for farmers?
- Who owns the records?
- How do we get a price?
Where the work usually breaks today
Circle the ones you recognise. They set the order of the project.
- The gate price and the final yield are never compared
- Parboiling and drying times are unrecorded
- Broken share is only measured at the end
- By-products are not valued
- Bags are counted by stack
Prefer to talk it through? See the rice mills page.