EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Title : SWINE RAISING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Researchers : Christy D. Decendio, Marivic L. Nipay, Shaira

C. De Dios

Course : Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Host : Central Bicol State University of Agriculture-Sipocot

Sipocot, Camarines Sur

Type of Document : Capstone Project

Keyword : Monitoring, Inventory, Management

Technology helps business maintain data flow, manage contacts, track

processes and maintain employee records. Technology makes it possible for

businesses to operate efficiently and effectively with minimal manpower and helps

to reduce the cost of doing business. Technology helps business operations by

keeping them connected to suppliers, customers and their sales force. Because of

its ability to streamline operating costs, technology delivers instant access to

suppliers and information, so businesses are better able to offer affordable pricing

of goods and services without sacrificing quality.

Arellano’s Pa-iwi’s the only swine raising farm situated at Port Junction

Norte Ragay, Camarines Sur. This farm is manage by the owner only and

implements the manual process of monitoring the swine, inventory and

management. The owner lists on the logbook all the name of the farmers, the total

number of swine raised and the schedule when to give medicine to the swine.

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 The researchers have conducted an interview to the owner of the Arellano’s

Pa-iwi at Ragay, Camarines Sur. The owner still uses manual operations in their

daily transactions of their business. The swine raiser became caretaker for its swine

and all the expenses were written in the paper that they provided to themselves

for having record of all expenses that they gotten. When the swine raisers get the

total number of swine to the owner, the owner will be lists on the logbook all the

swine raiser that became caretaker of swine, the number of swine raised and the

schedule when to give medicine to the swine. The total amount earned in selling

the swine will be divided to its owner and swine raiser as well as the consumed

feeds and medicine will be deducted to the amount earned.

Because of the stated problems on Arellano’s swine raising, the researchers

develop a system that would automate the manual transaction of the farm. The

Arellano’s Pa-iwi has no computerized system that can manage the records of the

swine raisers and stocks of feeds and medicine. With the evolution of these Swine

Raising Management System all processes can now be system based and be

managed.

This project aims to develop a web-based system capable of managing

swine raising. The project will provide automated transactions for all the reports

in terms of record that would help to lessen the burden of works for keeping all

the records of each swine raiser. It aims to simplify the process of record keeping

and accessing each swine raisers records fast and efficient. The stocks of feeds

and medicine, and total monthly sales report will automate. Tracking of products

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that are nearly out of stock and expired will be easily too. Decision making of

ordering products from the supplier is also a big help. The owner will be benefit

from this system because they will have no more problems in recording.

The study of De Guzman, Dela Passion, Lopez (2013) “Hog Raising

Management System”, Hog raising is a very popular enterprise in the Philippines.

Supervising the hog raising business process is required to provide actual

information of its operations, processes and transactions and the success entails

a business management, and pig farming knowledge and skills.

The proponents of this study’s concern, is to develop a management

system that may help monitoring the hog raising farm owner or advisor mostly

during the breeding and feeding management by monitoring the pig’s growth

stages. This study proves that this kind of system really does exist.

To realize this system, System Development Life Cycle was used, by

creating conceptual model used in project management that describes the stages

involved through the study of the project and data flow diagram used to develop

the project. SDLC is a structure which was followed by the development team

within the software organization. It consisted of a detailed plan describing how to

develop, maintain and replace specific software and the overall development

process.

The system was developed through the aid of different applications:

Sublime Text Editor as the software used to develop the functionality of the project

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and MYSQL for the database. Throughout the process of testing the program, the

most common errors encountered were the following: encoding of the wrong

syntax; problems in connecting database ad disorganized data.

MySQL contains commands that can be incorporated with the PHP code,

allowing part of all web pages to be generated from database information. PHP

and MySQL were combined to be easy yet powerful means of creating dynamic

web pages. It can collect data from users and do many other things that HTML

cannot do alone.

The data gathered helps to conceptualize the flow of the system through

the use of different diagrams and Gantt chart. This contained a draft to identify

the relationships and flow of the system. It also showed the construction and

arrangement of every attribute indicated in every linkage.

The researchers highly recommended that Swine Raising Management

System for Arellano’s Pa-iwi must be implemented to change the manual operation

fast in terms of record keeping and generating reports as it, as well, provides the

needed printable forms. Future researchers must include provision of other

services and transactions that are not included in the current system.

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