There will be times when events occur that require a group, or series of groups or farms to make adjustments to any of the system tables. For example, the weather may get very cold in the middle of winter, and Feed Consumption tables will need to be adjusted accordingly.
To make these temporary adjustments, animal managers can utilize the Table Adjustment form and globally make a change for the time period required. Several table adjustments can be applied to a contract or group, so if there is one sick flock who is also facing unexpected weather, both conditions can be accounted for.
Predefined Adjustment Configuration
Create an Adjustment for the standard table you want to adjust.
System → System Tables → Select a table → Adjustments
Details
- Code. Create a code that corresponds to the Table Adjustment. This code must be unique.
- Description. A description of the Table Adjustment the user wishes to imput.
- Status. Whether the Table Adjustment is currently Active or Inactive. This field will default to the system default of Active.
- Relations. Sets the Company/Divisions and the Industry Types the Table Adjustment is associated with.
Table
The pre-defined adjustments are not year specific.
- Description: You can have multiple rows for a year so you can distinguish why the adjustment during that time period.
- Starting Date: The starting date of the adjustment. Note, the system will not utilize a year.
- Ending Date: The Ending date of the adjustment. Note, the system will not utilize a year.
- Value: The percent value you want to adjust the table up or down.
Applying to a Flock
If you have a flock that is under or over performing you can assign the adjustment to the flock itself.
Select the flock → Open the flock form → Standards Tab
- Select the appropriate table to adjust (Case Weight, Percent HD Production etc.)
- Right click in the form under the adjustments section or select the green plus button on the right hand side.
- Select your adjustment from the drop down
Flock Adjustment Overrides
Users now have the ability to set flock adjustment overrides. If you apply an override and there is a predefined adjustment, the system will only utilize the override. You do not have to have a predefined adjustment for the override to work.
Once set the system will adjust standards or the standard used for projections by the adjustment percent.
The adjustment override functionality can be set on the flock for both standards and goals, or brought in to the flock through the contract reload.
By default, the adjustment on the flock form will pull the flock's placement date through the projected sell date to apply to the life of the flock, these default dates can be overridden to apply the adjustment to a specific time frame.
Only one adjustment can be applied for a time frame. You cannot have an adjustment that is for the Life of the flock and an additional one that happens in May as well.
Report Parameter
You can choose to show adjustments or dismiss the adjustments when running reports by selecting the following checkbox in report parameters.
Adjustment Sample
Ran a report for a sample flock. The report comes back with a HD Production Standard of 92.2%.
Apply adjustment to the flock's Percent Hen Day Production Adjustment Override.
Once the adjustment is applied to the flock I ran the report again and for the same week my Percent Rate of Lay is now 83%.
