In the poultry business, the plant and production department enjoy a continuous and dynamic in-company client-provider relationship. Consequently, decisions made at the live production level may reflect directly on the plant's performance. These effects are not detected instantly. Most often, they are seen either further down from their moment of their origin or, even worse, when the live loads arrive at the plant, when it will be then too late to remediate eventual mistakes. For this reason, the relationship between live production and plant no longer can be managed as a plain interface between two secluded areas – production and plant – a misguided, but still common approach. Instead, their management requires a holistic approach as to deeply integrate them both to end up with production plus plant.