Stakeholders
ArchiFarm is a diary producer who operates three production sites by performing milking, feeding and maintenance process. Analysis of their exiting operation is very essential to successfully executed their operational transition in healthcare monitoring system. Initially the paper will represent stakeholder analysis process and their drivers and the goal of the strategic stakeholder management for each of the stakeholders. After that, the Business Functions, Business Processes, Information Architecture, Application Usage, Application Cooperation and Data Dissemination are represented.The purpose of this paper is to analyse the existing business operation architecture and information handling process of the ArchiFarm from various point of views through utilising the ArchiMate representation.
A business in Dairy or Live stock industry stakeholders and their drivers plays an essential role in the business process management, quality maintenance, change management, improvement, procurement and other essential operation. The diary and live stock business of ArciFarm comprises the internal operators, external influencers and the tertiary participants within the business process. The primary stakeholders are directly and intenrnaly involved in business operation of ArchiFarm, the secondary stakeholders are the external influencer and the tertiary stakeholders are the regulators.
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Stakeholders |
Drivers |
Stakeholder type |
Strategic goals |
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CEO |
Increasing profit margin by effective decision making and developing policy |
Internal and Primary |
Keeping Informed |
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Board of director |
Improving performance level and efficiency with effective decision making and imposing policies |
Internal and Primary |
Keeping Informed |
|
Site managers of head quarter and 2 additional sites |
Delivering effective management procedure and improve in carrier path |
Internal and Primary |
Keeping informed |
|
Office employees |
Delivering quality performance in data processing and HR activities ensuring promotion with organisational profitability |
Internal and Primary |
Manage Closely |
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Farm workers |
Delivering quality performance in farm management and ensuring promotion with organisational profitability |
Internal and Primary |
Manage Closely |
|
Maintenance Unit in head quarter |
Delivering quality performance in maintenance operations in Main site while ensuring promotion with organisational profitability |
Internal and Primary |
Manage closely |
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External maintenance service providers and contractors of 2 minor sites |
Delivering quality service to ArchiFarm in exchange with money and making profit |
External and Primary |
Monitor |
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Contracted Distributor |
Delivering quality logistic transportation in exchange with money while making profit |
External Secondary |
Monitor |
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Local Animal Feed Producers and suppliers |
Supply feed products in exchange with money while making profit |
External Secondary |
Monitor |
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Technological equipments and service providers |
Supply automatic feeding, milking and monitoring machines in exchange with money while making profit |
External Secondary |
Monitor |
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Government Authorities and regulators |
Checking the quality products and organisational policies and taking legislative initiatives |
External Tertiary |
Keeping Satisfied |
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Retailers and customers |
Ordering product in exchange with money complying with their budget estimation |
External Primary |
Keeping Satisfied |
|
Local community |
Making good social relationship with the company |
External and Tertiary |
Keeping satisfied |
|
Power or Influence |
High |
Government and Authorities |
Customers |
CEO Board of Directors |
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Medium |
Suppliers Distributors |
Managers |
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Low |
Local Community |
Employees |
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Low |
Medium |
High |
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Impacts of changes |
The business functions of ArchiFarm are divided into three separate sections namely, input or supplying, processing and output or distributing. Apart from that supporting is another business operation that is being performed by the company internally and also by outsourcing for the two NSW minor production sites. The processing functions comprises the automatic cow milking and feeding procedure. During this process the feeding department inform the management about the required feeding materials and the timings.
Another essential part of the processing is distribution that includes the dealing with customers as well as the distributors. It is also associated with the sales, that includes receiving the order details and reporting to the data management unit which is the head quarter situated at Sydney. Another essential internal function is health checking of cows that functioned by health diagnosis teams regularly in all three production sites.
Two major differences between HQ and minor sites are:
- HQ has automatic advance Milking system that the 2 minor production sites do not have
- HQ has their own maintenance unit for technical purpose, however the minor production sites require to outsource the maintenance facility by outsourcing
As per the information system configuration of the functionalise data processing and governance system is maintained by the head quarter. However the minor production sites control the maintenance operation as per the instruction from the Head Quarter. The Information Technology Service provider interchange the technical information with the managerial unit.
Value chain point of view
Information flow point of view
The business process of ArchiFarm are divided into five separate sections namely, Human Resource Management, Finance/Accounts, .Feeding/milking management, Maintenance and healthcare system. Apart from that, the data processing Unit is responsible for hosting the business server, record handling and other governing process. Any changes in the business operation will change the human resource by modifying the recruiting and training system. Similarly changing in health monitoring system can change the data monitoring and reporting system of heath diagnose and reporting unit.
Another essential part of the processing is financing system that includes the bufget making price generating and other essential operation. The billing system is maintained by the finance department. The distribution system does not contribute in the internal operation, therefore is not considered in the processing system of the ArchiFarm Company.
Drivers
The Information Architecture has six external data operation systems which are also knows as interfaces namely, Milking information system, feeding information, Livestock investigation information, sales information system, Logistic information system . Apart from that the governing information system which is also identified by the information Administration is management interface.
The external information including the ordering and distributing are uploaded in external server and the internal data including deeding, milking and maintenance are uploaded in the internal information server. The uploaded information are processed by DBMS system and stored in the physical database storage. The sorted data then analysed by the data governance system maintained by the administrative department and managerial section of the business. The information distribution system controlled by the database management system integrated in the virtual memory unit.
The IBM blue works, MS project management and MS Excel are used for data governance system as a part of the administration interface. SAP HANA is used for Software operation Architecture and data processing management system. The windows server SP3 and the Linax red hat are used for server hosting. The SAP ERP is used as the Enterprise Resource Planning software that manage the data collected from both internal and external information system. SQL record handling and XML black-box used to store data sequentially with proper indexing. It will also enable the data fetching and searching system.
The Application system and their cooperation is maintained by the virtual data storage system which is known by cloud storage and computing. The external information including the ordering and distributing are uploaded in external server and the internal data including deeding, milking and maintenance are uploaded in the internal information server. The uploaded information then processed by SQL database verification system administrated by the data governing interface. Online SQL worksheet is used to upload detailed records from the client side and the relationship diagram from administration side. The E-Health firmware devices upload the health update of cows as well as the medication requirements to the cloud server. The medication support system is provided after the data processing XML for quantitative requirement analysis.
The IBM blue works, MS project management and MS Excel are used for data editing monitoring, normalisation and other administrative operation. SAP HANA is used for Software operation Architecture and data integrity handling that determines the correct data path for the appropriate data packages . The windows server SP3 and the Linax red hat are used for server hosting and daa gathering. The SQL file handling system is used for the indexing data sorting, fetching, searching and other storage related operation. The Enterprise Resource Planning software that manage the data collected from both internal and external information system with data verification and data path detection at primary level.
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that in ArchiFarm, stakeholders and their drivers plays an essential role in the business process management, quality maintenance, change management, improvement, procurement and other essential operation. The business functions of ArchiFarm are divided into three separate sections namely, input or supplying, processing and output or distributing. The business process of ArchiFarm are divided into five separate sections namely, Human Resource Management, Finance/Accounts, .Feeding/milking management, Maintenance and healthcare system. The Information Architecture has six external data operation systems which are also knows as interfaces namely, Milking information system, feeding information, Livestock investigation information, sales information system, Logistic information system . The IBM blue works, MS project management, SAP HANA, SAP ERP, SQL record handling and XML black-box, -Health firmware devices are used as technical and IT (Information Technology) operation.
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