Sistema Integrado de Gestão de Unidades de Alimentação e Nutrição: Módulo de Criação e Prescrição de Cardápios

Abstract

The information technology development has provided the creation of new solutions to assist in the management of public and private organizations. The Food and Nutrition Units (UAN) are responsible for the production and distribution of food to groups of people in different types of establishments. The UAN has a complex operation process and the nutritionist must manage everything from the physical structure, equipment and employees to the planning, execution and evaluation of menus in addition to several other activities. These factors make the UANs management difficult, making their operation more complex, depending on the quantity and type of meals produced. In view of this problem, the purpose of this Monograph is to present the development of an Integrated Management System for Food and Nutrition Units (SIGUAN), which aims to assist the nutritionist in menus elaboration and prescribing and in the UAN’s activities management. SIGUAN architecture was planned based on the 4 + 1 model and it was developed based on the REST architectural style. Its functionalities range from the menus creation and prescription to the ingredients, preparations, stock and preparation rooms management, which are common parts of UANs. The evaluation of this work was performed through the execution of a controlled experiment elaborated based on methods proposed by different authors, one of them was the GQM method. In this experiment, SIGUAN was evaluated in terms of usability, utility and productivity compared to the traditional approach to creating and prescribing menus using Excel. The results of the evaluation showed that SIGUAN achieved the objectives.