When it comes to livestock management, there are all sorts of animals that need to be tracked on a farm. Cows, chickens, sheep, pigs, goats, and ducks and others. Animals of this nature are treated like stock as their primary function is to be processed for the food industry, and in some cases other uses as well.

In order to keep track of these animals, ERP can be helpful. Each animal can have tracking device on them which would track them in every way; their location, what state of health they are in, when they are due for processing and any other details needed to be known about them.

Technology is making its way more and more into agriculture and farming. Now ERP systems can be regularly used by any farm. The user of the software can know very specific details of what is going on with their stock, how many of a certain animal they have, see statistics of how the overall health is for the animals on a whole and whether any of those concerns need to be addressed.

All animals will be able to be addressed in an individual way, taking care of each ones specific needs before its time to process them.

Each animal could have their own documents. This way, it is easier to know what is going on with them. If for example, one of the livestock got into an accident and was perished, the accidental death could be documented and accounted for on the ERP system. All details in regards to the accident written clearly by livestock management.

Decisions after that could be made if the animal in question was still able to be processed after the accident or not, ultimately lowering costs if it were. All these decisions could be determined by ERP, as the system would already be able to know the state in which that animal was in. Livestock management would be informed of such an occurrence as it happened.

With these types of systems in place, livestock management would see the farm would run more smoothly. Knowing all details about all the animals at all times would be tracked and documented by the ERP system.

This would ultimately help the farm in many ways, for it would be much easier to know if there were any major outbreaks of disease and any other potential concerns that could come up.

These concerns could then be addressed quickly. In addition, livestock management could take the information with them on their mobile device, always being able to know what was going on with the animals, and the farm as a whole. Giving the user more time to focus on more important matters. It is for this reason that ERP is helpful for anyone dealing in livestock management. It would be overall beneficial, not only to the farm itself, but for the consumer who values quality.