FOODS4ZOOS
A management application for zoos that focusses on the feeding process.
The Foods4zoos application is build by the Applicatiefabriek and regulates the logistics of the feeding process in zoos. From purchasing to foraging. So it tells the kitchen what needs to be prepared that day and how much. A nutritionist can arrange the application, whereby diets can be composed per animal or group and per day. This takes into account a number of things that determine the nutritional needs such as the size of the groups or the size of the animals compared to the average (baby, adults, female, (too) fat or (too) skinny animal, etc.).
The application can also handle efficient feeding routes in the zoo and there is feedback on whether tasks have been carried out in the feed kitchen.
What Is This App?
The Foods4zoos application regulates and optimizes the logistics of the feeding process in zoos; from purchasing to foraging. The app supports the activities that ensure that the animals receive the right food at the right time in the right quantities. It is a so-called SaaS application. This means that it is a product that is accessible online and that is purchased and used by our customers on the basis of a subscription for which we charge a monthly amount that includes everything. So care, further development, support, use and hosting of the product are all in one price.
The app therefore arranges for the preparation kitchen what needs to be prepared that day and how much. A nutritionist can arrange the application, whereby diets can be composed per animal or group and per day. These diets can be passed on to the required ingredients by working with factors. These factors are determined on the basis of a number of things that determine the nutritional needs such as the size of the groups or the size of the animals in relation to the average (baby, adult, female, (too) fat or (too) skinny animal, etc).
Advantages
Centralizing food
Skip cutting loss or food waste by centralizing the preparation kitchen
Better monitoring
Better monitoring health of the animals by enhancing control and monitoring the foods/feeding
More efficiency
Optimizes the working process of the nutritionist and makes everything better transferable and more efficient because you maintain the history
Easily adaptable
Product easily adaptable to your process; always finished within 40 hours
Training
We train you in the use of the program
prescription
One monthly prescription covers all:
- use-,
- development-,
- maintenance-
- support
Easy to maintain
No long term contract
Who We are
Our Mission
Ensuring that the right animal receives the right (amount of) food at the right time and that the welfare of the animals can be improved as a result
Applicatiefabriek is the owner of the foods4zoos. We work and develop software products on Kjerner’s ALAN platform. Foods4zoos has been developed in collaboration with Apenheul. The feeding process in primates is quite precise and the health of the animals is highly dependent on what they eat. By now, the application is used by several zoos so it can support different processes in different environments.
Watch It In Action
“Astrid, fellow worker foodkitchen”
Zoos! A big plus in efficiency!!.
The transition from the Excel files to the diet app Food 4 zoos went smoothly and the simple and clear way of diets per animal species per day can be found quickly.
What the app makes accessible is that everything can be viewed in the food kitchen itself, but this cannot be accidentally edited or adjusted, only the nutritionist can do this in her account.
“Sanne, fellow worker foodkitchen”
This application has greatly simplified and improved working in the kitchen. Diet changes are easy to implement. In the product list it is immediately clear what consequences this has for the (weekly) order. You cannot accidentally delete or change a diet, and summer / winter diets can easily be hidden or recalled.
By using the app, the purchasing policy has also been simplified, in the product list you can easily see the usage per week in grams per product, whether it concerns chunks or vegetables. Thanks to this overview, you can make competitive purchases and avoid unnecessary stock and the kitchen employees do not miss out on products, resulting in a higher efficiency speed.
All in all, a very good asset!
“Jacqueline, Coordinator Animal Care”
Entering and editing diets is a matter of following the steps carefully. It is very convenient to have several diets of the same animal groups in the system. This makes it easy to manage seasonal diets in an organized and efficient way.
You can keep track of dietary changes, this also makes the management of the diets valuable in the longer term.