The Complete ERP Platform for Sugar, Pulses & Spice Mills

A mill buys raw from mandis, farmers and traders at a rate that moves every day, mills it into grades, packs it in a dozen sizes, and sells to distributors and exporters. Trade Node runs purchase, milling, packing, dispatch and billing on one platform, so yield and margin stop being month-end arithmetic.

• Mandi and farmer purchase on record
• Milling yield run by run
• Grade-wise packs to export

The problems this trade lives with

• Purchase happens faster than paperwork: Lots are bought on a phone call at a rate fixed that hour. The bill, the deductions and the payment are settled from a diary days later, if the diary is right.
• Yield is the whole business, and it is a guess: Raw to finished, plus bran, husk, broken and dust. What a run actually returned is worked out later, if at all, and a steady leak never gets found.
• One raw material becomes twenty SKUs: Grades, polish levels, blends and pack sizes multiply out of a single lot. Stock and rate lists cannot keep up with what is actually standing on the floor.
• Rates move but the ledger does not: Buying and selling rates change with the market while outstanding, credit and stock valuation get reviewed monthly — so exposure is always seen too late.

How Trade Node runs it

• Every purchase is a record, not a diary line: Suppliers, purchase orders and purchase bills capture the party, the rate and the deductions, and post into accounting as they happen instead of at month end.
• Milling runs with real yield: Recipes set what a run should consume and produce; work orders record what it actually did, and by-products and loss go on a waste ledger rather than being absorbed silently.
• Grades and pack sizes as their own stock: Each grade and each pack size is its own product with its own rate and stock across warehouses, so what is sellable today is never a mental calculation.
• Publish today's rate to every buyer at once: Distributors and traders see the same live rate and order against it, with credit limits checked before a vehicle is loaded rather than after it has left.
• Dispatch and export on the same trail: Loading, vehicle, transporter and e-way bill on the dispatch record, and export consignments with customs milestones and forex values for the overseas leg.

Why one platform

• Made for conversion, not just resale: A trader's system tracks what came in and what went out. A mill needs to know what one thing became — grades, by-products and loss — and that is what Trade Node records.
• Buying and selling on one platform: Mandi and farmer purchase, milling, packing, sale and collection sit in one connected flow, so margin is a report instead of an argument.
• The paperwork Indian trade actually needs: GST invoices, e-way bills, dispatch challans, party ledgers and Tally sync come out of the same flow that moves the goods.

Modules for this trade

• ERP: Suppliers, purchase orders and purchase bills for mandi, farmer and trader buying, posting into accounting as they are booked.
• Factory: Milling recipes, stage-wise work orders and a waste ledger that records bran, husk, broken and loss run by run.
• Catalog: Every grade, blend and pack size as its own product with its own rate — no mental conversion between what was milled and what is sellable.
• Trade: Publish the day's selling rates once; distributors and traders order against them from their phone, with the rate recorded on every order.
• Operations: Warehouse-wise stock, dispatch challans with vehicle and e-way bill, and export consignments with customs milestones and forex values.
• Insights: Movement by grade and pack, sales and outstanding reports, and year-on-year comparisons whenever the CA or the bank asks.

Frequently asked questions

Can Trade Node track milling yield and by-products?

Yes. A recipe defines what a run should consume and produce, work orders record what it actually did, and by-products and loss are logged on a waste ledger, so yield is visible run by run.

How are grades and pack sizes handled?

Each grade, blend and pack size is its own product with its own rate and stock across warehouses, so stock and rate lists always reflect what is actually sellable.

Does it cover purchases from mandis and farmers?

Yes. Suppliers, purchase orders and purchase bills capture the party, the rate and the deductions and post straight into accounting, so purchase settlement is not run from a diary.

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