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GAZIANTEP LOCAL SOFTWARE · FLOUR AND MILLING

The Gaziantep milling software that accounts for your wheat from weighbridge to sack

In milling, the profit is not hidden in the flour's selling price but inside the blend. A mill that cannot see in writing which silo was drawn from and in what ratio, what the extraction yield came out at that day, and whether the bran and middlings were tied back into the blend is, in reality, managing its costs by guesswork. We build a system that joins the laboratory slip, the silo ledger, the blend calculation and dispatch into a single chain of records. Your accounting software stays where it is; we write the part it cannot see. If you are in Şehitkamil or Başpınar, we will come out for a discovery visit.

The picture in Gaziantep
  • According to our own field research, 145 of the 1,108 companies registered in the Gaziantep organised industrial zone (OSB) manufacture on the food side; roughly 45 of those work in flour and milling (this sub-breakdown is an estimate, not an exact count). Flour and bulgur-pulse production here is not a scattering of isolated plants but an industry branch operating side by side.
  • Gaziantep's demand for flour goes well beyond bread flour. The baklava and confectionery industry, bakeries and baked-goods producers each ask for flour with different characteristics; the same mill often has to set up separate blends for several flour types within the same week. "Which flour type actually makes us money" is not a theoretical question in this city — it is a daily one.
  • A mill's dealers, bakeries and confectionery producers are mostly in the same city. Orders come in by phone and loading is expected the same day. That proximity is good for collections and relationships, but hard on planning: when there is no written link between the promises made during the day and the silo status and milling plan, the loading ramp jams up in the evening.
  • In our own data the size distribution is 236 micro, 413 small, 286 medium, 90 large and 83 very large companies. Mills are spread across every part of that table; a plant with three silos and a plant with thirty do not have the same needs. That is why scope is defined by your silo count, your laboratory set-up and the number of flour types you run — not by the module list of an off-the-shelf package.
  • For a mill supplying flour or semolina for export, the picture changes: the batch records and analysis results the buyer asks for must come out of a system, not out of a folder. According to our own data, roughly 26% of OSB companies are verified exporters; if you work on that side, traceability is not a preference — it is a condition of the business.

Where the work in a mill actually happens

  • The test weight (hectolitre), moisture, protein, gluten, sedimentation and sunn pest damage measured at intake stay on a paper analysis slip. The past performance of lots from the same merchant cannot be compared, so buying decisions rest on memory.
  • The blend — the grist calculation — lives in the head miller's own Excel file. Once production is over, no one can trace back how many tonnes were drawn from which silo and in what ratio; if the miller leaves, the knowledge leaves with him.
  • Silo stock is kept in a ledger. Because transfers between silos, water added during tempering (conditioning) and transfer losses are not recorded, the paper stock and the physical count drift apart over time, and nobody can explain the difference.
  • Extraction yield is roughly calculated at the end of the shift. Because by-product outputs such as bran, middlings (razmol) and low-grade flour (bonkalite) are not tied back to the incoming wheat and the blend, a true mass balance can never be established.
  • Cost per flour type is not clear. Because wheat cost is allocated on a single average, no one can see whether bread flour, baklava flour or pastry flour is the one actually earning money; pricing decisions are made by watching the market.
  • Outgoing quality results such as ash content, protein and falling number are not matched to the production batch. When a complaint comes in from a bakery or a confectionery producer in the city, no one can find which day, which blend and which silo combination that flour belonged to.
  • Dispatch notes and weighbridge tickets for bagged, big-bag and bulk shipments are written up separately. Shipped tonnage and stock deductions are reconciled by hand at the end of the day; once that correction becomes routine, the error itself becomes invisible.
  • Roller mill adjustments and sieve changes run without a schedule. When granulation or ash values drift, the cause is hunted for backwards; yet if which roller was adjusted and when were on record, the answer would already sit inside the record.
  • In the accounting package, wheat appears as a single stock item. On the shop floor, however, every silo means a different quality; because the software cannot see the silo, the costing cannot see the quality.
  • Orders from dealers, bakeries and producers are taken by phone and written into a notebook. With no link between the tonnage promised during the day and the milling plan, the evening loading queue gets jammed.

The record chain we build

We do not bring a second accounting package into the mill. Your accounting and receivables side stays exactly as it is. The layer we build joins the chain that runs from the weighbridge through the laboratory, the silo ledger, the blend and the extraction yield to dispatch in one place — and writes the results you need back into your existing system. Modules can go live one at a time.

Intake, weighbridge and laboratory records

A single record is opened from the moment the truck enters: the weighbridge ticket, the sample, the analysis results and the supplier details are all tied to the same lot. Test weight, moisture, protein, gluten, sedimentation and sunn pest values are listed historically by supplier. At the next purchase you decide who to work with based on records, not memory.

Silo ledger and tempering tracking

Each silo keeps its own quality identity: which lots it holds, what its average values are and how full it is. Transfers between silos, water added during tempering and cleaning losses are recorded. The gap between paper stock and the physical count becomes visible inside the record before it quietly disappears.

Blend calculation screen

A screen that puts your target protein, gluten and ash values side by side with the quality and cost of the silos on hand. It calculates different blend scenarios and shows them comparatively together with their costs. We do not set the formula; we write your head miller's rules into the system and leave the decision to him. Every decision he makes is stored with its date and user.

Extraction yield and by-product balance

Incoming wheat and outgoing flour, bran, middlings, low-grade flour and losses are brought together in a single mass balance. Extraction yield is calculated by shift, by day and by blend. Because by-products are tied back to the blend, it becomes visible which grist and which shift a yield deviation came from.

Cost per flour type

Blend cost, energy, packaging, labour and by-product income are allocated to each flour type. Bread, baklava and pastry flour each stand as a separate cost line. You make pricing decisions from your own records, not from market hearsay.

Dispatch and customer batch traceability

Bagged, big-bag and bulk shipments all leave through the same system; the dispatch note, the weighbridge ticket and the stock deduction are generated from a single record. Which customer received flour from which blend, with which analysis values, is on record. When a complaint arrives, tracing back is done through the records, not by digging through an archive.

How we set the work up

  1. 01

    Introductory meeting

    We talk through how many silos you run, your daily milling capacity, which flour types you produce and which software you currently use. The purpose of this meeting is not to quote; it is to work out whether your business will be put right by software or by process. No obligation.

  2. 02

    On-site discovery at the mill

    We come to your plant in Şehitkamil or Başpınar and follow the whole flow from truck entry to bagged output. We see the weighbridge, the laboratory, the silo yard and the roller floor; we open the head miller's blend file and the warehouse ledger together. We record the terminology exactly as you use it — we do not impose our own vocabulary.

  3. 03

    Scope, priority and budget

    We turn the findings into a phased plan. In most mills the first phase is intake and laboratory records plus the silo ledger; blending and costing only make sense once solid data has accumulated on top. The duration, scope and price of each phase are written up separately.

  4. 04

    Development and field trial

    We build the module and trial it on a real shift. We watch the weighbridge operator, the laboratory supervisor and the miller use the screens; wherever an objection comes up, we change the design. We keep the screens simple, allowing for the fact that they will be used in a dusty, hurried environment.

  5. 05

    Go-live, training and maintenance

    We take the system live and give short, hands-on training for each role. After that we continue under a maintenance and support agreement. The source code and the data stay with you; if you ever want to hand the system over to someone else, we deliver the handover file as well.

Frequently asked questions

Will we have to replace our current accounting software?

No. If you run a backbone such as Logo, Mikro or Netsis, it stays where it is; we do not disturb your receivables, invoicing or e-document set-up. The layer we build talks to it over the database or an API: it carries intake and dispatch records into it and reads cost and stock data out of it. In one factory we built a production layer that runs alongside the existing ERP without touching it at all; the logic here is the same.

Can it talk to our weighbridge and laboratory instruments?

On the weighbridge side, yes — we have done this before: we built a weighing and labelling station that brings a weighbridge and a label printer together on the same screen. Most electronic weighbridges output weight data over a serial port or the network, and we read it from there. With laboratory instruments it varies by brand; some provide file or database output, some do not. During discovery we list your instruments and tell you in advance which ones we can pull data from.

Will you be the ones setting the blend formula?

No, and that is deliberate. The blend decision is made with your miller's knowledge earned over years and the state of that day's silos; it would not be right for an outside software developer to set it. What we do is bring that decision onto a calculation screen: putting target values, silo qualities and costs side by side and showing the scenarios comparatively. The decision stays with the miller — the only difference is that the decision is now on record.

We are a small mill; won't this system be too heavy for us?

According to our own OSB research, the great majority of companies here are micro, small or medium-sized, and we shape the work accordingly. You can start with a single module. Starting with intake and laboratory records only, then moving on to blending and costing once data has accumulated, is the route we recommend most often. We do not think it is right to sell a large installation from day one.

Our team is not comfortable with computers; can they use it?

We design the screens knowing that reality. The weighbridge operator's screen has three to five fields and the rest fills in automatically; the laboratory screen is the digital counterpart of the analysis slip, so there is no new layout to learn. During go-live we stand beside your team on site and resolve the early snags in place. Writing software that nobody uses does nobody any good.

How long does this take, and how is the budget set?

Silo count, instrument integration and how many flour types you run directly change both the duration and the price. We do not quote a figure before discovery is complete; after discovery, each phase is written up with its own scope, duration and price. When the first phase ends, the decision to continue is yours — we do not ask for a long commitment up front. We also have a guide page explaining how you should choose between an off-the-shelf package and custom software.

Where will our data live, and who will own it?

Depending on your preference, it lives on your own server or in a cloud account opened in your name. Both the data and the source code are yours; we write that into the contract. Having had to extract business rules from inside programs whose developers could no longer be reached in takeover projects, we have made it a principle never to leave anyone dependent on us. We hand over the transfer file together with delivery.

Let's walk the silo yard and the laboratory together

A mill's system cannot be written from a distance; a program set up without seeing what each silo is for uses up its shelf life within the first week. Name a convenient day and we will come to your plant in Gaziantep. Let's follow the flow together from the weighbridge to the roller floor, and talk openly about where software is needed and where it is not. In this first meeting we do discovery, not a proposal.

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