FMS is a path breaking IT initiative undertaken by Department of Fertilizers (DOF), Government of India. FMS monitors movement of controlled as well as decontrolled fertilizers at various stages in the value chain. It monitors the…

• Imports
• Production
• Distribution
• Sales and
• Facilitates subsidy payment (for decontrolled fertilizers)…

…of Urea, DAP, MOP and NPK fertilizers under the concession Scheme.

System modules

This system enables overall management of movement of fertilizers in the country and empowers all stake holders, especially farmer/common man with real time information regarding availability. Broadly, FMS consists of 4 modules:

• Company Module
• Subsidy Payment Module including
  • Freight Subsidy (for both controlled and decontrolled fertilizers)
• State Module
• Public Domain Module

Transactions

Following transactional details are captured on the system. These are entered by the companies on a regular basis and thus the system always provides latest information to the Department of Fertilizers and State Governments at all points of time:

• Import of raw material / finished goods
• Custom clearances
• Receipts at plant
• Production
• Dispatches from Plant and Port and Returns
• Receipts
• Sales
• Warehouses details
• Wholesalers details
• Claim generation

Subsidy Claims & Freight Subsidy

Subsidy claims are approved at different levels in the department according to the set norms. Each approver has to use his unique login ID in order to log on to the system, track pending claims and approve/disapprove them. FMS also contains a system of triggering the mails at different stages of claims processing to the concerned officials at all stages with the objective of keeping everyone involved informed on the progress.

Under the uniform Freight subsidy, all the Freight Claims are being generated and processed on FMS.

Public Domain

The public domain of the system is (www.urvarak.co.in). Dispatch and sales based reports are available here for viewing. In addition, updated data like concession rates, MRP etc. is also available here.

MIS

The system contains an extensive MIS which includes reports like:

• State-wise / District-wise / Finished Good-Wise / Company-wise Dispatch Report
• State-wise / District-wise / Finished Good-Wise / Company-wise Sales Report
• District-wise - Distributor-wise Sales report
• Supply Plans vs actual Dispatches
• Requirement vs Supply Plan
• Claims Tracking reports

Application Screen Shots

 

Technologies used

Server-side - Operating System: Windows 2003 Server Application Server: Internet Information Server 6.0 Application Platform: Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 C#.Net

Client-side - UI design: HTML, CSS, Javascript UI images Photoshop Application IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio 2003

Data Storage- Database: Microsoft SQL 2005 Server