Added the ability to create placement schedules by utilizing a cycle week configuration that will look at current flock placements and schedule out new placements by the cycle week configuration. Users are then able to view these future placements in a view and be able to modify schedules to recalculate as well as be able to split placements out.
Configurations
Manage Individual Placements
To add or manage individual placements in the system, you can go to Manage Schedules → View the calendar for the division and/or farm that you would like to see and select Scheduled Placements.
This will bring up the calendar view that will have all the placements for the filtered view.
Select New to schedule a new placement.
This screen will come up and you can add a placement at the farm level or at the house level.
On Add, the following form will come up. Here you can enter information necessary for a placement.
Subject: This field will automatically populate on Save to the Schedule Type that you selected to create.
Location: You can add a location. (Optional)
Start Time: Record Start Date and Time.
End Time: Record End Date and Time.
Flock Code: If you have a flock code for the placement, you can enter that here. (Optional)
Contract: You can apply a contract to the placement. (Optional)
Sex: You must apply a sex to the placement. (required)
Quantity: Add the quantity of birds to be placed.
Capacity: Here you can add the farm/house capacity. Manually entered at this time.
Hatch Date: Enter the flocks hatch date. (Required)
Hatchery: Select the hatchery the placement is coming from.
Cycle Days: Enter the cycle days, this will calculate the cycle Weeks and Sell date. Enter one or the other.
Cycle Weeks: Enter the cycle weeks, this will calculate the cycle days and sell date. Enter one or the other.
Sell Date: Sell date will be calculated by the hatch date and the cycle days.
Custom Fields Tab. The custom fields tab, will show any custom fields you have set up for scheduled placements. See Custom Attributes Tab for more information.
If required information is missing, validation will occur on save and you will not be able to continue.
On Save, the following form will appear if there is conflicts with existing placements. Here you can modify the New Start dates, cycle numbers, and New Sell Dates so placements fall in line. You can un-check the check-boxes to make no changes to the placement. If you select Accept, the records that have Save Changes checkbox will now utilize the new Recommended Dates that were generated or modified. If you select Cancel, it will continue to save the placement you created and make no further changes to existing placements.
Split Placement
Schedule/Manage Projected Placements
Report View
