Cactus Feeders
- Pork View

Modernizing Legacy Software To Boost Productivity
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Problem

Cactus Feeders’ existing solution, based on KENDO, was very slow and complex in managing operational procedures that affected productivity and caused delays in performing tasks.

Need

Cactus Feeders wanted to speed up operational processes such as entering and managing data to reduce time to perform tasks and enhance user experience by using updated set of technologies.

Solution

Folio3 revamped and upgraded the existing systems to boost up productivity and to enhance user experience across the value chain.

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About

Cactus Feeders
- Pork View

One of the largest beef and pork producers in the US, the company stands by its mission of feeding a hungry world while staying sustainable. With one out of every 25 cattle being fed by Cactus Feeders, they produce more than 12 million pounds of beef as well as more than 2 million pounds of pork, which amounts to over 56 million meals every week!

Understanding the Challenge

Legacy System Slowing Down Operations

The client wanted to modernize an existing legacy system software that was impacting performance and slowing down their pig farming processes from breeding and gestation to grow-finish. The current system they had was challenging them in the following ways:

  • The user interface was difficult to use and the design wasn’t very appealing. The grids in the system frustrated the users and weren’t easy to use.
  • The system used outdated technology that lacked advanced features and new updates. It made the system very slow, which had a negative effect on the user experience.
  • The system took very long to load. For instance, if one clicked on one of the data planes to produce data, it took 7 to 10 seconds to appear, which naturally slowed down performance.
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Why Digital Transformation is
Important?

Successful meat producers and processors in the 21st century need to be extremely productive, efficient, and resilient if they are to stand the test of digital, the data driven, revolution in the sector. It plays a pivotal role in driving optimum outcomes by controlling and managing data across the value chain.
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Enhanced Efficiency

Digital transformation facilitates the automation of workflow processes that help optimize internal workflows in an organization.

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Streamlined Data Management

With the use of automated data management tools KPIs can be tracked effectively for proactive decision making.

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Increased Productivity

Digital transformation helps increase employee engagement by forming a collaborative work environment.

Building The Solution

Revamping The Existing Solution Using Modern Technology

Using the latest relevant technologies, we facilitated the client in revamping the User Interface as well as User Experience for the solution and helped them migrate to a modern platform that solved their challenges and catered to their needs in a better manner. Our solution helped manage the number of animals coming in and out of the farm, their feeding, their weights, their owners, their movements down to when they’re sent back to packing and shipping. Using hand-held devices, the farmers and workers enter data, and the managers manage with break-even calculators.

Our Approach

  • Understanding The User Journey

    After identifying the challenges being faced by the client and those using the existing solution, we decided to focus on areas that needed improvement in the application like design and technology. We helped set priorities and user roles and then employed an incremental approach to update and modernize the solution.
  • Building Wireframes & Designs

    The client wanted something modern and innovative and we built the wireframes keeping that in mind. Since a major part of the project was revamping the design, wireframing and design was a very important part of the process. The client loved the designs we created including the colors, pictures, and icons.
  • Development

    Our development team then incorporated the structural as well as design changes and upgraded the existing system across all business functions and operations.
  • Deployment

    They then migrated the data to the new, responsive solution and integrated the application with the backend. After deployment, they explained the changes in technology and UI to the client so they could further explain them to the users.

The Solution

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Pork Group Events

The solution facilitates the client in easily grading pork sheets, barn sheets, pork group inventory, group mortality, and several other tasks and events.

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Feed

The solution lets you automate and manage feed orders and samples using FastAPIs.

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Packer Sales

Additional advanced features help the client manage their shipment settlements, cull sales as well as imports.

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Accounting

The solution added features that enabled the client to account for weaned pig placement, feed transfer export to Net Asset Value (NAV), live haul trucking as well as feed trucking.

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Boar/Sow Enrollment & Farming

It enables farmers to automate data entry and gives them error correction options for animal enrollment, feeding, and farrowing. It also includes research trials and sow treatment history options.

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The Resulting Transformation

Optimizing Feed Efficiency & Profitability

With a team-based engagement, our team helped the client overcome hurdles and manage modernization across all the departments and operations.

We helped configure their departments and functions and ensured that the solution was easy to use and led the client to streamline their operations.

The changes in the solution added value to the client’s business in the following ways:

The overall performance showed improvement across the organization with better communication among teams.
Security protocols within the organization were improved.
Boost in efficiency because of 80-90% increase in speed of the application and reduction in time lags and delays
User experience improved by a very high margin, which automatically led to an increase in productivity.

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Who We Have Worked With

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