Innovative Livestock
Services
State-of-the-art Mobile App to Track Inventory & Manage Fields Operations
Problem
Managing field activities, such as tillage, spraying, planting, and harvesting, and keeping track of the inventory to track workforce tasks and progress was difficult.
Need
The client sought to develop a mobile work order management app for use by its managers, operators, and office personnel, for their field tasks and inventory management.
Solution
A Fields & Inventory Operations Management mobile app is designed that gives incredible benefits over any remaining earlier techniques used for field workers and to manage agricultural inventory.
About
Innovative Livestock
Services
ILS is a cattle feeding, farming, and agribusiness firm with operations in Kansas and Nebraska, Innovative Livestock Services, Inc., was founded in Central Kansas in the late 1970s as an independent cattle feedlot. Over the course of the last 40 years, Innovative Livestock Services is a collection of farms and feed yards that raise healthy, wholesome beef.
Understanding the Challenge
Difficulty in Tracking Inventory and Handling the Fields Operations
It was challenging for the ILS to manage fields and track inventory. Finding a solution for these issues required a great deal of planning and expertise. To remain competitive, they needed technology investments and adapt their focus to take advantage of new technological development and opportunities.
- The human error risk factor from the employees was the most prominent risk factor.
- Managing activities like tillage, spraying, planting, and harvesting, and managing their inventory was very difficult.
- Tracking workforce tasks and progress was difficult to gauge.
- Maintaining open communication with operators, and office personnel was challenging
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Building the Solution
Building a Custom-Made Mobile App
The solution is to build a Fields & Inventory Operations Management mobile app accessible to field workers and operators and to manage inventory, enabling the client to eliminate the risk of missing tasks in the field.
Our Approach
Understanding The User Journey
Identified client challenges, analyzed and prioritized problems, created user personas, and mapped pain points for each user group.
Building Wireframes & Designs
Customized an existing product by creating wireframes for new features, securing approvals, and proceeding with detailed design creation.
Customizing The Existing Solution
Developers incorporated additional client requirements into the solution using approved wireframes and finalized designs for accurate customization.
Deployment & Training
After synchronizing and integrating the solution with the client’s data and requirements, the solution was implemented.
The Solution
Approval Workflow
The workflow follows three approval levels, allowing managers to resubmit rejected jobs by authorized operators.
Seed Lots
The feature manages seed inventory with create, update, grading, recalls, audits, and search, filter, sort options.
Notifications
Users get notified when tasks are assigned, submitted, or approved or rejected by supervisors or staff.
Offline Support
Users can view assigned jobs and submit data offline, with automatic synchronization once connectivity is restored.
Tank Mixes
Users can create tank mixes, search, sort, filter lists, delete exhausted resources, and mark status active or inactive.
Products
Users can create, update, delete products, assign IDs, categorize types, and search, filter, and mark status.
Equipment
Users can create, update, delete equipment, and easily search, filter, sort, and mark their active status.
Fields
Users can create, update, delete fields, and search, filter, sort them while marking their active status.
Water Sources
Users can create, update, delete water sources and track workforce tasks, progress, and current status updates.
The Resulting Transformation
Field Management Made
Easier for ILS
Our expert development team used React Native technology to develop the solution for the Client’s needs. The results helped them to speed up the field’s operations and also to better track the ongoing and planned jobs in the fields. Inventory management was also taken care of with better tracking to avoid precedented wastage and save up the cost.
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