Twenty Tips for Brick Kiln Owners on how to buy the best software?
We don’t mind from wherever you buy software for your brick kiln, but being a responsible company, who is serving brick kiln industry for last 14 years, we consider it our primary responsibility to guide and advise (on how to buy a good software for brick kiln) all brick kiln owners who still are not using computer as their primary record keeping tool or are using computer to maintain record but are not satisfied the way it is answering their queries.
To suggest tips we would say that ask following 20 questions (at least) to yourself before buying a software for your brick kiln:
- Does the software keep stock of sand (or mitti)?
- Does it keep stock of raw bricks or tiles?
- Does it keep stock of accessories used in the kiln?
- Does it keep itself in sync of changes in labor rates?
- Does it maintain ledgers of labor (e.g. moulders i.e. pathers)?
- Does it keep record of waste on every location where brick moulding (Pathai) is going on?
- Does it keep record of bricks or tiles carried to the sheds in kiln area by every carrier (kachi dhuhai wala)?
- Does it keep laborer wise record of how many bricks are filled into the kiln?
- Does it keep record of line wise burning and coal used in every line in the kiln?
- Does it keep record of laborer wise and chakka (stack) number wise nikasi (process of taking out finished bricks from the kiln)?
- Does it maintain orders?
- Does it keep detailed record of sales like contractor wise, driver wise, item wise etc.?
- Is it maintaining your accounts like receipts, payments, profit/loss account or balance sheet etc.?
- Is it keeping stock of coal?
- Is it keeping attendance of your staff?
- Is it keeping chakka (stack) wise, item wise finished inventory (pakka stock)?
- Does it has option to create percha (a summary document that munshi (clerk) fills and submits to the owner on daily basis)?
- Is it flexible enough to adjust entries according to the convenience of the owner of a brick kiln?
- Is it making your business more systematic?
- Is it making everything transparent to the owner?