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A completed flock may have unconsumed feed in its bins at the end of its life, which should be handled and accounted for by farm managers. This remaining food remains in the bin until it can be utilized by the plan which is when the next flock in the house would start eating that particular feed type.

Bin Status

Statuses have been added to the bin definitions on the house form. By default, all existing bins have been given the status of Active. Newly created bins are defaulted to the status of Active.

Bins in an Inactive status will not be considered by the feed plan calculation, when determining which bins to deliver to.  (Inactive bins will still appear in lookups on forms like feed delivery and ending feed).

Managing Remaining Bin Inventory

At present, there is no way to automatically adjust off the balance for a previous flock, and automatically apply it to the bin inventory. Users will need to create feed delivery adjustments on the flock the inventory was originally delivered to, and then create a bin inventory balance.

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Clear All: Whenever we would like to reset the ledger and start from scratch we'll click clear all. This will reset all history for all houses.

Close: Closes the form.

Applying Bin Inventory to a Feed Plan

I will generate a feed plan for a flock, with no bin inventory. Note that this plan utilized both feed bins, and that the first delivery of withdrawal feed is calculated to 20mt.

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While it is possible to keep this history of balances across many flocks, it is recommended to use the "Clear All" option once the balances have been reviewed, to reduce the number of records in the ledger. Though these balance records are deleted during a clear all, feed plan records will never lose their "Existing Inventory" status, and the database now includes a separate field that tracks how much of a feed plan's amount comes from existing bin inventory.

Feed Orders and Remaining Inventory

"Existing Order" feed deliveries will appear on the feed order form, and will need to be committed like any planned delivery. When they are, they will be staged and eventually end up as feed deliveries belonging to the flock. This is necessary if we want bin inventory to be recorded as consumed by the flock, like any other feed delivery.

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