Welcome to the Integrated Pork Slideshow.  You'll see how farrow-finish, farrow-wean and wean-finish operations can save time, control costs and receive more accurate and timely analysis through FBS's exclusive integrated accounting-production MIS. 

The FBS design also provides optimal capacity and flexibility for monitoring any scale of operation at any level.  You can track by Location, Group, or both, then roll up to Centers--the major financial segments in your operation.  Centers can be defined by stage, farm, grower, etc.
 

Groups are the basic accounting and reporting components for the nursery and finishing phases of production.  FBS Groups are tied to Centers (sites/growers) and Locations (buildings or rooms).  More than one group can be open within a center or location at the same time.  In addition, Groups can be tagged with  attributes like Source, Rate of Gain Table (growth curve) and user-defined Traits that can be used in queries and analysis. 

Production and accounting entries combine for timely and accurate livestock inventories.  Right-click on any number to view or edit the original transaction.  You can even "close" the group from this report screen.

Now let's move on to feed tracking.

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In addition to being the greatest expense, feed is the biggest reporting challenge because of the all the variables like ingredients, rations, prices and inventories.  Again, FBS's integrated production-accounting-inventory system greatly simplifies every step of the feeding process regardless if you manufacture your feed or have it toll-milled.

Now that you're assured that your livestock and feed inventoriesand costs are current and accurate let's look at production analysis.

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You can run a Cost Analysis (unit-based income statement) for your entire operation or any combination of centers.  The report can include detailed breakdowns of revenue accounts, direct expenses and allocated costs.  Because this is a "time-slice" view (rather than closeout-based), it includes work-in-process adjustments for inventory changes.

This example report also includes a line-by-line comparison with budget projections from Smart Feeder Planning.  The Budget columns can even be updated from current CME prices through the optional DTN Interface.

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FBS totally automates your biggest recordkeeping and accounting chore through two optional interfaces:

1. The Commercial Feed Mill Interface (shown) records feed invoices directly into TransAction Plus accounting as well as coding by ingredient, ration, center and group.  It works with over 23 Feed Mill accounting programs

2. The On-Farm Feed Mill Interface records internal feed tickets, drawing feed at the correct cost from on-farm feed inventories.  It works with 11 electronic feed mill controllers.