A wide-ranging project on the building of a new silo type grain storage was completed in 2015. As a result, the grain terminal «NIKA-TERA» possesses a modern silo type grain storage, which consists of 14 silos with total holding capacity 170 thousand tonnes. There are processing lines of motor vehicles and railway transport receiving, loading on motor vehicles and railway transport, grain conditioning, drying and loading on cargo vessels.
After completion of the the above-mentioned project, a crucial question about necessity of the grain terminal operation automation arose at the company. «Art Soft» company, which has long-term experience in the field of ports and grain storages operation all-round automation, was chosen to solve this problem. The company’s management made a decision to apply the software solution «Art:A Grain Terminal Management», developed by the «Art Soft» company’s specialists on the basis of the software product «1C:A Small Company Management». As a result of the software solution application, all necessary functions of the quantitative and qualitative accounting (QQA) were automated, namely:

1. Accounting of grain crops receiving, holding, loading and re-registration:
— an entrance checkpoint subsystem was created to registrate motor vehicles (MV) and documents by the arrival purpose (subsequently, MV in the territory are accounted, departures are registrated and a set of documents is printed out due to the subsystem);
— while receiving, it is possible to control the accounting of grain crops amount by suppliers through the «A supply receiving order»;
— while loading, control of remains is executed due to the «Loading orders»;
— transport traffic is eliminated with the help of bar code numbering, bar code selection is used and connection to scanners is provided;
— MV (motor waybill) receiving and loading registers are created.
2. Entering of the weight from the motor scales:
— the weigher’s workstation was put into operation with automated functions of the scales department – gross weight/packing;
— there is an interconnection with weighing equipment.
3. The registration of the laboratory grain tests with recording of basic and additional characteristics:
— the laboratory assistant’s workstation was put into operation for recording of proximate analysis, moisture registration and arrangement in storing places while receiving;
— the incoming crops visa was utomated;
— while loading through the workstation, analysis of loading are registrated and there is an opportunity to determine the place of loading.
4. Accounting of grain conditioning to basic characteristics, distributing of the 1 — 3 category waste products among the owners.
5. Calculation of the services rendered to the contractor.
6. Creation of the cleanup statement and the calculation statement.
7. Uploading of the warehouse receipts into the state register.
8. Visualization of the «Silo board» report with an opportunity of interactive displacements.
9. Creation of the regulated printed report patterns according to the instruction №661 (patterns № 28, 29, 36, 37 etc.).
By the current time, the application of the software solution «Art:A Grain Terminal Management» has been completely executed. 11 working places have been computerized.
November 24, 2015 is the starting date of the software solution commercial operation.
As a result, the set purposes for the terminal operation computerization have been achieved. The system ensures a high level of the automated accounting, creating of all the necessary basic documents, grain accounting, loading and unloading of the vessels, effective report creating and it provides the terminal management with actual information about all areas of activity.