The Grower Information Manager (GIM) works with the SIM module to comprise the core of the Swine Management Tool Series. The GIM captures all of the day-to-day swine operations data on both nursery and finish farms. The GIM module also supports both commercial and multiplication farms as well as having the ability to support Wean–to-Finish and Farrow-to-Finish operations. GIM allows a user to analyze a multitude of performance factors for a comparison of group performance across producers, farms, regions and business units. These comparisons, which can also include historical data, will allow users to quickly analyze and identify optimum farm and group characteristics.
All the data necessary to analyze group performance is readily available. This screen allows a user to easily identify transactions like feed, med/vet, and field data attributed to a particular group. All of these factors are in an easy to read format that can be customized to the view of the user. This uniform format allows a company to eliminate the need for the undulating variations of reports. As a result, multiple business units are aligned with the same data in a uniform format, thus eliminating data related redundancy issues.
- Tracks weight gain per day, days on farm, feed consumption by feed type, mortality, med/vet, and other technical group data.
- Calculates average weight sold from animals, considering all condemnation factors.
- Ranks producer performance based on user defined criteria.
- Manages group accounting, including all group costs, feed transactions, and med/vet.
- Works in concert with plant software to ensure accurate distribution of closeout reports against producer contracts and ultimately payments.