PACE ERP: Plantation Digitalization for Tea, Coffee, Rubber and Palm Oil

PACE is regarded as the best and most affordable Agri Plantation ERP Software for Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Palm Oil, Cocoa, Macadamia, Avocado, and other crops. Also known as a Plantation Management System and Farm ERP Software, it is designed to support smart farming, traceability, and precision agriculture. Built to support smart farming, precision agriculture, and digitalisation of plantations.  Being a Cloud ERP for Plantations, PACE enables efficient estate and corporate-level management by digitising day-to-day operations—from labour tracking and field activity planning to production, sales, and finance.

Whether you manage a single estate or a group of plantations, PACE brings together everything you need to enhance visibility, productivity, and profitability.

Key Modules of PACE ERP for Plantation Operations

Whether you manage tea estates, coffee plantations, or palm oil farms, this ERP for Plantation Operations ensures sustainable and transparent farm-to-market visibility.

Payroll & Wage Management in Plantation ERP

The module simplifies payroll processing by categorising workers and linking their records to attendance. As Plantation employs lots of casual or temporary workers, authentic attendance capture for plantation workers also becomes crucial.  It also handles statutory compliances, benefit calculations, and automatically books wage liabilities into the accounting system—ensuring accuracy and transparency in payroll. This makes it an essential part of any estate management software for plantations.

Human Resource Management

• Define flexible salary structures as per grade/category.
• Track employee benefits like loans, leaves, and statutory compliance.
• Automate wage processing based on attendance.
• Integrate facial recognition-based attendance & weighment capture for transparency.
• Automatically book liabilities to the accounting system with relevant documentation for compliance with plantation digitalisation.

Cultivation & Field Activity Tracking (Agronomy)

• Plan and manage activities like plucking, pruning, sickling, irrigation, and more.
• Capture all input details and the number of man-days used for every task.
• Analyse labour and input efficiency to improve yields.
• Aligns with agronomy best practices to optimise crop health and timing.
• Supports modern agronomy practices and sustainable farming ERP features like eco-friendly resource usage.

Purchase & Inventory Management

• Supports procurement of general items, green leaves, and bulk tea (via auction or corporate office).
• Complete cycle from requisition to purchase order, vendor selection, and GRN.
• Category-wise inventory tracking, replenishment alerts, and dispatch (bulk tea packing, transporter bill).
• Integrated warehouse stock monitoring with accounting impact.

Production Management 

• Production management for plantation digitalisation can be done for all varieties of tea, coffee, rubber, palm oil, etc.
• Map the entire production cycle, record operational data. PACE also works as a crop traceability software.
• Monitor fuel and machine efficiency, and workers’ productivity.
• Allocate costs centre-wise for accurate profitability insights.
• This module also helps in meeting crop traceability and certification requirements, such as Rainforest Alliance or EUDR compliance.

Pest Control & Management

• Plan pest-wise treatment schedules through farm pest app.
• Capture survey rosters and pesticide usage.
• Enable daily treatment tracking with predictive pest analysis.
• Trigger real-time alerts for pest outbreaks or threshold breaches.

Blending & Packing

• Manage blend sheet preparation and issue bulk tea for blending.
• Record final blending, packing, and calculate gain/loss on blending.
• Trace every lot from blending to dispatch.

General Accounting & Final Accounts

• Automate receivable/payable management with bank and tax compliance.
• Generate standard financial reports—Trial Balance, P&L, Balance Sheet.
• Configurable as per country-specific accounting rules.

Budgeting & Variance Reporting

• Prepare estate-wise or consolidated budgets covering all parameters.
• Real-time tracking of actuals vs. budget with proactive alerts.
• Supports cost control and faster decision-making.

Sales Management (Domestic & Export)

• Manage sales offers (muster, export, private), confirmations, and rejections.
• Auction bookings and sales advice handling.
• Track multi-currency exports, export benefit documentation, and forex gains/losses.
• Manage domestic sales through consignment, auction, or private channels.
• Also, built-in supply chain management for plantations, exports and domestic sales can be monitored in real-time.

Census

• Maintain accurate records of workers’ dependents.
• Ensure transparency in eligibility for benefits such as ration, housing, etc.

Hospital

• Digitise plantation hospital operations.
• Track medicine inventory, patient records, and link sick leave to wage/benefit calculations.

Fixed Asset Management

• Track the lifecycle of plantation assets: purchase, sales, revaluation, and subsidy.
• Calculate depreciation/amortization as per Income Tax Act & Companies Act.
• Enable revaluation entries and asset-wise reporting.

Plant Maintenance

• Prepare and monitor preventive, corrective, and proactive maintenance schedules.
• Log actual vs. planned activities and item consumption.

Fleet Management

• Each vehicle is treated as a cost centre.
• Monitor usage, fuel consumption, and maintenance expenses vis-à-vis utilization.

Nursery

• Record area allocation, sapling varieties, and store consumption.
• Track mandays used and monitor sapling transfer to fields.

Organic & Biodynamic Preparation

• Capture preparation details for vermicompost, CPP, and liquid manure.
• Record material/labor costs and work-in-progress.
• Manage biodynamic input consumption and generate IMO-compliant reports.

Management Dashboard

• Real-time dashboard with KPIs across labour, field activity, production, finance, and sales.
• Estate-level and corporate-level visibility for decision-makers.
• Enables data-driven governance and timely interventions.
• As a true cloud ERP for plantations, it offers multi-estate, multi-crop visibility on a single platform.

PACE is more than an ERP—it’s a complete tool for plantation digitalisation, integrating every key operational area into a single platform. It acts as a bridge for digital transformation in plantations, helping agro companies stay competitive and future-ready. By aligning core modules with industry-specific requirements, PACE ensures operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and increased returns. Whether your focus is tea in Assam, coffee in Karnataka, rubber in Kerala, or palm oil in Southeast Asia, PACE empowers you with the tools for modern, sustainable plantation management.