Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXIII, Issue 2
Written by Iuliana MARIN, Monica-Paula MARIN, Carmen Georgeta NICOLAE
Farmers need to manage better the increasing demand of food by scaling their services according to the required capacity and through the use of IT products and services. The process needs to be efficient and sustainable in order to perform safely. Lean, Agile and DevOps are leading workflow models and concepts which can be included in the process to improve the time and quality of product delivery. Agile optimizes the development of software. DevOps combines development with operations, while shortening the life cycle of software development and improves its quality. Lean enhances focus and optimizes the value stream by identifying automation opportunities and collaboration. The article presents the purpose, methodology and goals for supply chain management in farms. Farmers start from ideas and they apply practices and principles until they get the value out of the supply chain. The Lean principles are the basis of the product development flow. The practices start from finding and validating ideas for the Lean product and how it fits in the market. DevOps incorporates many lean principles and focuses on the enhancement of the collaboration between the employees who are responsible for software development and operations. Software development is based on Agile and it has the Scrum and Kanban methodologies for processes, while engineering is based on extreme programming. Methodologies in the farm supply chain management can be considered to be diagnosis instruments that allow evaluation. Farms identify and implement activities which aim to augment the benefits gained through the use of software and methodologies. Additionally, these principles can be used by academics and practitioners in complementary domains.
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