Livestock

A livestock farm keeps dairy cattle, goats, pigs or poultry. Kila runs it as a production business shaped like a farm: its branches are farms, and the animals come first.

What is special

• Herds, animals and milk is in the Make menu, with the animals by tag, their treatments and withdrawal periods, and the milk by milking.
• Animals by tag is one of its set-up steps, after the herds and houses.
• The milk of an animal in its withdrawal period is withheld, and the rest goes into stock: see Record a milking. Each herd or house keeps its own costs: see Follow a field or herd’s costs.

No demo business runs as livestock; Kinangop Dairy Farm, a farm with a dairy herd, shows the same animal and milk screens under Fields, herds and milk.

How Kila sets it up

The main screen is Production orders.

Rules it follows:

None. Kila's standard rules apply.

Its words:

Most businesses	Livestock
branch	farm

Its set-up steps

1. Business details and KRA PIN
2. Sites and stores
3. Herds and houses
4. Animals by tag
5. Licences and permits (KEBS, county, DOSHS)
6. Materials, packaging and finished products
7. Recipes or parts lists with yields
8. Suppliers
9. First production order

Its home page

• Yesterday at the plant
• Production orders today
• Farm today: milk, withdrawals and seasons
• Output against plan; yield and scrap
• Materials short for planned orders
• Cost per unit against standard
• Machines: maintenance due and breakdowns
• Checks and logs today
• Orders to make and dispatch
• Payments waiting for confirmation
• Approvals and reviews waiting
• Licences, permits and returns due

Roles it starts with

• Production supervisor: Runs production orders at their farm: plans, issues materials, records output, scrap and downtime on the shift log, completes checks and closes orders. No costs or recipes.
• QA officer: Quality checks, holds and releases, recalls, the HACCP plan and its records, audits and issues, and tracing batches. No costs.
• Operator: Works on the line: records output, scrap and downtime on the shift log, in-process checks and their checklists. No costs.
• Plant manager: Runs production across the farms: plans and orders, recipes and their approval, costs and variances, machines and maintenance, quality and the shift log.
• Storekeeper (materials): Receives, stores and counts materials and packaging, and issues them to production orders. No planning, output or costs.
• Maintenance technician: Machines and their maintenance: plans, work orders, spares used and downtime. No stock or costs beyond spares.
• Farm manager: Runs the farm: fields and seasons, herds and animals, treatments and withdrawal periods, milk, inputs and harvests.
• Herdsman: Records milk, births, services and treatments of the animals. No costs or stock.

Where to go next

• Production: how Kila works for farms and factories.
• Herdsman: the herdsman’s day.