Automatic Milk Collection Center Mobile Application

The AMCC app is installed on an ordinary Android phone. The in-charge connects the milk analyser and the weighing scale to it and starts the shift. From then on, each farmer’s milk is tested and weighed, the reading is captured by the app, and the record is saved, billed and sent to the dairy’s EasyDairyERP server.

The app captures data from EkoMilk Ultra, Ultra Pro, Essae and Ultra DPS analysers on any Android phone. Because it replaces a dedicated processing unit, a centre needs no DPU: the phone does that job, and the same phone can be replaced or swapped without changing the centre’s set-up in the ERP.

A village centre can be automated with a phone, the analyser and a compatible scale, and its data reaches the ERP directly.

• AMCC mobile app: Install on any Android phone in any village, connect to a milk analyser and compatible weight scale, capture quality and quantity and send directly to EasyDairyERP; no DPU required
• Supported analysers (approved): AMCC app captures data from EkoMilk Ultra, Ultra Pro, Essae and Ultra DPS analysers on any Android phone
• TAB-based automated milk collection centre: Docs workflow heading ‘With TAB based Automated Milk Collection Center For Milk data Capture from Villages’

For each farmer the in-charge selects the farmer, the analyser reading and the weight are captured, and the farmer data is saved and billed on the phone. FAT, SNF, added water, CLR and weight are all captured automatically by the app.

The saved record produces the milk slip, and the same pouring reaches the farmer in the free Farmer Connect app. Village-level quality and quantity are therefore known at the moment of collection, not when the register is typed up.

1. Select the farmer.
2. The analyser and the scale readings are captured by the app.
3. Save: the record is billed on the phone.
4. The milk slip is produced; the pouring reaches Farmer Connect.

The farmer sees the same figures the dairy will pay on, at the moment the milk is poured.

• Farmer-wise capture and on-phone billing: Select farmer, capture from analyser and scale, save the farmer data billed on the phone
• Automatic FAT / SNF / added water / CLR / weight capture: Captured automatically using EasyDairyERP applications
• Village-level quality and quantity capture: Milk data quality and quantity capture from village level

Rates are not set on the phone. The rate chart is managed centrally in EasyDairyERP and updated from the ERP to the mobile app, so every centre bills on the rate the office has approved, from the date it was approved.

Centralised milk rate updates mean a change of rate is made once, at one location, and reaches every AMCC phone on its next sync.

1. The procurement office updates the rate chart in the ERP.
2. The chart syncs down to the AMCC app.
3. The next farmer is billed on the new rate.

No centre can bill on an old or unofficial rate.

• Rate chart updation from ERP to mobile app: Rates set centrally and pushed to collection apps
• Centralised milk rate updates: rates are managed from one place

The collection process is designed for assurance of no losses in milk collection: readings come from the instruments, the record is billed on the phone and sent to the server, and the same figures reach the farmer’s app. The AMCC versus chilling centre comparison then checks that what was collected arrived.

For centres that prefer a desktop, Chilling Center / AMCU for Windows is available as a download, alongside the Android app.

Collection data can be trusted from the village to the bill.

• Secure collection processes: ‘Assurance of No Losses in Milk Collection’
• Chilling Center / AMCU for Windows: Desktop capture software download (docs footer)