Feed Deliveries

Owned by Amanda Thomas
Last updated: May 24, 2024
4 min read

As feed deliveries are made, they will be either entered by a user into the Aeros LIVE software, or, more likely, they will be received from your batching software and automatically loaded into Aeros LIVE.  Below is an example of that screen.  This screen may be edited as needed, and will show the source of the data.  This way, you can always know if it was a manual entry or automatically loaded.

Live Inventory → Feed Delivery (ribbon bar)



Manage feed deliveries in the Aeros LIVE application through the Feed Delivery screen.  Navigate to the feed delivery screen by clicking the Live Inventory button on the left navigation menu.  

There are two ways to access the feed delivery screen.  Click on the Feed Delivery button, which is located on the top navigation ribbon bar menu or right click the flock and select the Feed Delivery selection from the context menu. The feed delivery screen will be displayed as shown above. 

Select an existing feed delivery from the grid or add a new feed delivery by placing the cursor on the last empty row of the grid. Enter or edit the following fields in the Deliveries grid:

  • Placement House.  The house the delivery record is taken from.

  • Delivery Type.  The type of delivery being made. The current selections are as followed: Delivery (Charge), Feed Return (Credit), Returned Delivery (Charge) and Feed Spill (Credit). This is a required field.

  • Delivery Date.  The date of the delivery. This is a required field.

  • Delivery Hour.  The time of the delivery.  Knowing the time is important if you have ending feed records on the same day.  The system needs to know which happened first to be able to calculate consumption properly.  You can set the default for the hour on the Division Settings.

  • Feed Mill. The feed mill where the feed delivery is coming from.  This is an optional field.

  • Formula.  The formula applied to the delivery.  This is a required field.

  • Milling Charge. The milling charge for the feed delivery.

  • Ticket Number.  The ticket number of the delivery. This is an optional field.

  • Invoice Number.  The invoice number of the delivery. This is an optional field.

  • Gross Weight.  The gross weight of the feed delivery. This is an optional field.

  • Tare Weight.  The tare weight of the feed delivery. This is an optional field.

  • Net Weight. The net weight of the feed delivery. If a gross and tare value is indicated, the net pounds is automatically calculated (Gross – Tare). This is an optional field.

  • Unit Cost.  The unit cost for each specified unit of measure.

  • Formula Cost.  The total cost of the feed delivery.

  • Milling Code.  The milling code of the feed delivery.

  • Medication Cost.  The total cost of medication for the feed delivery.

  • Delivery Code. The delivery code for the feed delivery.

  • Delivery Charge.  The delivery charge for the feed delivery.

  • Reference.  An additional field that you can put anything information in.

  • Comments.  Any comments made on the feed delivery.

The Unit Cost is displayed below the grid (5) for the unit cost of the feed delivery. The unit cost is the Formula Cost divided by the Net Lbs. To the right of the unit cost field is the Total Formula Cost (6), which is the value in the Formula Cost field on the grid. The last field is the Total Delivery Cost (7) which is the Formula Cost, Milling Charge, Medication Cost and Delivery Charge added together. To save, the user will click on the Save button to save their changes. The user can also delete an existing feed delivery by selecting that feed delivery row and pressing the Delete button on the keyboard.



Additives

**This view only shows up if the Feed Plan is enabled.

If you have additives that were added to your feed, you can put that information in as well.

After a delivery record has been entered you can click on the little plus sign next to it, this will expand so additive information can be entered.  You can enter multiple additives to a feed delivery.

Users with access to feed deliveries can add update and remove these records. right-clicking a selected record will reveal the context menu option to delete it. This is a soft-delete, that will not be committed until the form is saved.

When the feed plan form loads any feed deliveries created before the current date are loaded, replacing any feed plan records that did (or did not) get committed as orders. These records will now display the additives that are saved to feed deliveries. Like their feed delivery parent records- they cannot be edited.