Poultry Farm Management Information System (A Case Study of Biyinzika Poultry International Limited)

Abstract

This report discusses a Poultry Farm Management Information System of Biyinzika Poultry Farm International Limited. The software is sectioned into the sales management section, Purchase management section, Product management section. This system was designed to overcome the problems identified with the current Poultry Farm Management information system of Biyinzika Poultry Farm International Limited. The Problems with the current system include: lack of information sharing in real-time, manual report generation on sales, purchases and the products, slow in information delivery especially in the determination of stock levels after transaction processes, a lot of time consumption, increasing the company costs, and lack of effective data recovery in case of any disaster such as fire outbreak, flood, damages among others. Literature relating to the Poultry Information Management Systems were reviewed. The legacy system used in the company was also studied in more details. With this, more requirements for the Poultry Farm Management Information System were obtained and the system was designed and implemented. The interfaces for the new system were implemented using HTML, Bootstrap and Java Script. MYSQL was also used for implementing the system database while PHP was used to create interactivity with the database. After the implementation, the new system was then tested and validated. When developing the system, the focus was on making the whole process of Information management in the poultry farm faster, more convenient and efficient for the company. This system automates the current poultry farm management information system in the organization.