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Implementing S/4 HANA in Poultry Industry
- Grand Parent Management
- Breeder Management
- Hatchery Management
- Broiler Management - Own and Contract Farming
- Chicken Processing
- Feed Mill Management
- Layer Management
Module features are as below along with SAP standards used
Breeder Management
Complete flock calendar generation for vertically linked management of operations from
Breeder, Hatchery and Broiler. Breeder Management covers entire life cycle from shed
placement till liquidation of the batch
Following matrix will detail out standard and customization involved
| No | Feature | Customization | S/4 HANA Transactions |
| 1 | Flock Calendar | Flock Calendar works as MRP for poultry operations across timeline - Screen was customized | Complete Customization |
| 2 | Batch Schedule and Placement | Customization for Shed ready activities including mobile App | Standard Procurement and material movement used with hierarchy as Plant and Bin for Batches placed in multiple sheds. |
| 3 | Flock merging, Shed to shed transfer | No | Standard Material movement codes used |
| 4 | Feed, Medicine, Indent | Validations for demand added | Standard Inventory request and Material transfer codes used |
| 5 | Daily Transaction | Customized Screen with mobile App | Account posting for bird cost Inventory movements with standard codes including material issue |
| 6 | Egg Collection | Customized Screen with mobile App | Egg cost calculation with account posting Depreciation (Amortization) entries, Material receipt and Material issue for scrap for broken eggs |
| 7 | Overhead expense Budget and loading | Budget was calculated for per day per bird and per day per egg basis based on flock calendar planning | Standard budget and forecast screens were utilized for data inputs for budgets across indirect expense ledgers |
| 8 | Flock Performance reports | Customized for poultry requirements with breed standard charts as benchmark | Standard material movement tables and costing tables from CO used for cost |
Hatchery Management
Manages 21 days life cycle of hatchery operations from setting to hatching. No calculations and calendars are required for your hatchery manager. Integration with Hatcher and Setter through data acquisition systems for seamless monitoring and alerts.
Hatchery
| No | Feature | Customization | S/4 HANA Transactions |
| 1 | Setter and Hatcher planning | Through flock calendar link | None |
| 2 | Candling Test | Custom screen for data entry | EWM setup with inventory movements |
| 3 | Breakout analysis | Custom screen for data entry | None |
| 4 | Hatchery integrations | Configurations | SCWM/SENSOR (Sensor Data Integration) |
| 5 | Hatchery performance reports | Customized reports as per Industry specifics | Inventory MIS |
Broiler Management
Track own farming and contract farming cycle in single solution. Manages multiple locations and farms with roles like lifting supervisor, line supervisor, manager etc. real time bird cost and analytics through reports.
Broiler features
| No | Features | Customization | S/4 HANA Transaction |
| 1 | Shed ready | Fiori Mobile App for farm | NA |
| 2 | Placement schedule | DOC reservation with hatchery | WM and IM modules transactions |
| 3 | Batch placement | Batch placement screen with mortality and shed selection | IM, MM and WM module transactions |
| 4 | Daily transaction | Feed, Medicine, Vaccine consumption, along with mortality detail. Fiori Mobile App for farm | Material issue, Material request transactions |
| 5 | Brid sales and lifting | Customized screen for lifting schedule and weigh scale integration | Sales order with catch weight management (CWM) for multiple UoM orders |
| 6 | Growing charge calculation | A/P invoice posting as per GC scheme calculations with incentives and deductions and MSP base | FI transactions with TDS impact |
| 7 | Chicken weighment | Integration with bluetooth scales for poultry | Delivery / Dispatch transactions |
Processing Plant Management
We have utilized standard SAP PP module as base to configure chicken processing operations.
Processing Plant Management helps production managers in planning, measuring and executing the production with least wastage, minimum cost and achieve high utilization of resources for better yield.
| No | Feature |
| 1 | Production forecast based on sales forecast |
| 2 | Configure multiple BOM with multi level harvesting |
| 4 | Identify shrinkage at each level of goods movement at multiple level |
| 5 | Integration with devices for hanging weight to identify exact inputs |
| 6 | Assign and configure wastage, weight ratio and cost ratios in |
| 7 | Enable Quality and cost control at each step of process for better quality and quantity of yield. |
Feed Mill Management
Feed Mill is and integral part of poultry farming, almost 70% expense of bird cost is driven by feed cost. PoultryOS enables integration with flocks to generate feed production planning with parameter based quality control and approval based material movement.
| No | Feature |
| 1 | Multiple formulas with semi finished and finished good as material for feed production |
| 2 | Costing for overhead like labor, electricity and material handling |
| 3 | Resource utilization and capacity utilization planning, track die utilization, machine utilization on daily and production order basis. |
| 4 | Quality control management with test templates for each item from material inward till finished good consumption |
| 5 | Production planning with sales and captive consumption forecast |
| 6 | Production and costing analysis and MIS for tracking and control |
With this solution we were able to show critical improvements in business operations and performance and utilization of SAP peaked. With Fiori Apps and BTP integration adoption of solution till last stakeholder like farm line and lifting supervisor was ensured.
Power of SAP put to use by industry experts for poultry not only highlights SAP's strength as a comprehensive operations framework of organizations but also shows its flexibility to adopt.
Sagar Godbole
Team LogicalDNA
