Aspects of Precision Livestock Management in ArchiFarm
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Aspects of Precision Livestock Management in ArchiFarm
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Running head: Enterprise Architecture 1ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTUREStudent NameInstitution
Enterprise Architecture 2Introduction Current demand in animal products such as milk is continuously increasing with morefocus drawn on ways to optimize production using limited resources as possible. This drives theArchiFarm to look for modern technology that has the capability to monitor and assess variousaspects of milk production system to ensure there are high efficiencies. The whole idea is the basis ofthe computerized automated system called PLM. Precision Livestock Management (PLM) is anenterprise system that has the capability to increase precision in the livestock production. ThePLM software is able to connect the three main aspects of farm and these are stakeholders ordrivers, business functions, and business processes. If well implemented, the whole system willmonitor the production of each cow throughout the value chain. That implies that PLM monitor,health, and feeding of the animal that is transferred to milk each cow produced. This is againtracked down to the distribution to determine the overall performance of each farm site. Theprogram also reconciles the distribution information with other farm processes. The main focusof this paper is to explore the different aspects of Precision Livestock Management withinArchiFarm.Task 1.1: Stakeholders and DriversStakeholders play an important role in business process within an organization and this issimilar to the case of the ArchiFarm enterprise system. There many stakeholders in the farm andsome of these stakeholders are farm’s staffs, distributors, wholesalers, animal feed producers,maintenance contractors, and veterinarians. Firstly, farms staffs are both the management and theordinary farmers who perform various tasked within the farm hence play an important role in the
Enterprise Architecture 3dairy production. At each site, there are various employees that are lead by the site manager.Secondly, milk distributors ship the milk using refrigerated to the processing plant. In addition,distributors also transport the processed milk to wholesalers to various locations. Thirdly,another group of stakeholders is animal feed producers that also supply feeds to various sites(Information Resources Management Association p. 1065). The feed is supplied on specificinterval hence the feed that is given to each cow has minimal variation. Fourthly, wholesalers arestakeholders nearer to consumers in the value chain and are linked to processes by distributors.Fifthly, maintenance contractors take care of both farm structure and various machinery withinthe farm and this is to ensure that the farm remains operative. Another group of stakeholders isveterinarians who monitor the health of every animal though the farm intends to introduce newsystem aiming at monitoring animal. Clients are the stakeholders at the far end of the value chainare the end user or consumers of the milk that is produced from ArchiFarm (Berckmans 2004).Drivers, on the other hand, include supply, distribution, maintenance, health assessments,and management. Firstly, supply and distribution are key drivers in the farm as feed is supplyinto the farm while milk produced on the farm is also distributed to processors and wholesalers.Secondly, management plays an important role is basic and vital drivers that determine thesuccess of the company. The company is introducing management tool that is an automatedsystem to manage especially production systems. Thirdly, farm maintenance is another driver asthis focus in improving the efficiency of farm process. This is closely connected to anotherdriver that is health assessment that mostly focuses on assessing the health of cows and this willbe done using Precision Livestock Management (PLM) tool. Another driver that is key to thefarm production is the Enterprise system itself. PLM is a driver that project high efficiencies that
Enterprise Architecture 4will ensure that most other drivers are monitors at single cow level (Zoran et al. 2007,p.145-146). The three goals of the whole system are the economic, quality and sustainable dairyproduction. The main goal of management is to achieve an economically optimal level of inputin production through monitoring production all sites. The economic goal of the farm ispredicted through the use of PLM that is expected to monitor and predict the quality of feeds thata cow use at a time hence reduces feed wastage. Moreover, the software aims to monitor all thedistribution to ensure high efficiencies within the supply and distribution (Pallab 2008,p.39).Secondly, quality goal focus on the delivery of quality and safer produce free from any relatedcontamination. Monitoring health of every single cow within the farm with the goal of ensuringsick cow has its milk excluded in the main production system. This will also enable the farmmanagement to predict problem well before it can spread to other animals. Thirdly, sustainabilityin production is another goal of the entire production with the view to ensure that there isminimal environmental pollution resulting from the production (Kovacs& Paganelli2003,pp.165–165). The farm has several assessments that include health assessments for each cow thoughthe organization is trying to add assessments into the software. One assessment done on the farmis the animal health that aims at examining the diseased animal and isolate it. This is projectingto assist managerial assessments of organization’s production systems. Another area of concernin the assessment is the consistency of drivers with the managerial goals for the farm. Thisimplies that drivers, as outlined in the strategies of the farm, need to continuously assess to see
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