dairy co-operatives information management and trace ability solutions company ppt

8/6/2019 Dairy Co-Operatives Information Management and Trace Ability Solutions Company Ppt

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Dairy Co-operatives

Information Managementand Traceability SolutionsCompany

Creating an Innovative [email protected]


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Background


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Vision- To be a leader in data handling,processing and displaying of real timeinformation and offering traceback system ofmilk and milk products to co-operatives and

markets both domestic and international. Mission - Is to provide efficient and effective

data processing and traceback system to co-operatives that will lead to improved

competitive advantage at national andinternational level.

Owned by dairy co-operatives in North RiftRegion


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Business Overview cont..


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Milk is highly perishable product and therefore

storage, handling and processing needs to be efficientand effective without compromising on quantity andquality while being able to track the movement fromthe source to the end consumer

involve issues like what information needs capturing,what technology will capture that information, howthat information is going to be transferred, where itwill be transferred, where it will be stored, the analysis

of that information, how it will be retrieved by co-operatives and how that information will reachfarmers and intended persons/businesses for furtheraction


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BUSINESS O VERVIEW CONT..


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Critical Review of the key E Agribusiness issues

increasing economic pressure has led to the need formore and better information

small difference at production level could lead to a

substantial drop in profits for a firm management skills are central in any kind of

business and they are best supported by informationtechnology

internet has developed to provide a rich mechanismfor electronic communication and electroniccommerce


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Critical Review of the key E

Agribusiness issues cont... business environment has become more complicated

and therefore enterprises must innovate for them tostay afloat in the market place be it domestic orinternational

knowledge is viewed as a significant factor inagriculture production

Knowledge management is aided by informationtechnology where it offers a means of acceleratingagriculture development


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The firms core competencies resides in the accumulatedintellectual capital of the firm and is the sum of itstechnologies, experience, skills, and management process(Spekman et al. 2002).

firms ability to learn from its partners is affected by itsability to harness the information, and transform/transferit internally among organisational members as knowledge

difficult for firms that do not use IT to partner withcompetent firms in a supply chain in order to reduce costs,

improve processes, have better quality of products andservices, traceback products and enhance innovationthrough joint development opportunities.


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As the international trade in food and food products isincreasingly becoming more intense, food safetystandards with regard to regulations relating to

traceability, product certification, environmentconcerns, etc have increased in scope and importance

traceability is seen as indispensible instrument inobtaining the consensus from consumers

traceability is about information collection of aparticular product from the time it is created to thetime it reaches the consumer


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This business will involvetwo main areas namely;

a) Information managementand data processing and

b) Traceback system key players that will be

involved directly to facilitatethe core function of thecompany will include; theco-operative, farmers,processors, mobile networkservice provider andtransporters.


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The company will utilise CoopWorks which is aweb-based open-source software that will be runon a database server

Through the software a journal of transactions,

statements, members deliveries, credit/loans,production of invoices etc will be produced foreach co-operative

At the co-op level in a Local Area Network (LAN)with several computers depending on the number

of members, each workstation with a computerwill be able to access data from the co-operativeserver and the database server using thedistribution router of co-op and the core router atthe company


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Marketing strategy

Cyber-defence strategy

Risk Management operational risk (security)

Sustainability plan


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