Feed Mills

Feed Mill setup is an easy way to set up your various Feed Mills. Feed Mill set up is an important aspect of feed scheduling, as it helps determine deliveries based on the Operational Schedule of the Mill and the Plant Capacity.

Details

Plant Code: The corresponding code to the Plant or Mill.
Plant Name: The name of the Plant or Mill
Tax Code: U.S. IRS tax code assigned to the facility.
Capacity (Rendering & Processing): The unit of measure the plant capacity. All capacities in the operation schedule will be in this unit of measure.
Status: Whether the plant/mill is currently active or inactive.This field will default to the system default of active.
Longitude: The longitude location of the Plant/Mill.
Latitude: The latitude location of the Plant/Mill. This field is optional. The only time it is required is if the user enters aLongitude value and vice versa.
Ownership: Select the type of ownership of the plant or mill.
Division: The default division to associate the plant/mill to for account purposes.
Capacity Units: Determines the Unit of Measure for your Plant Capacity/Operation Schedule

Formula Pricing

The Formula Pricing tab will only be available for feed mills and works in conjunction with the feed formula form. Feed formulas must first be configured to be manufactured at specific mills to be made available on the formula pricing tab of the mill form. Only those formulas that have Feed Mills selected on the Feed Mills tab of the formula form will be available to be priced on the above tab.

Effective Date: Users must first select an effective date for the prices being entered. The price will auto populate on the feed delivery form when the date, mill and formula are selected. The price will be in effect until a new effective date and price are entered.
Feed Types
- Feed Type Code: The major type of feed types will display that have applicable feed formulas within that type.
- Feed Type Name: The corresponding name or definition of the formula type.
- Price: If this price is entered all formulas within the type will use this price.
- Unit of Measure: The unit of measure of the formula price entered.
Formulas
- Formula Code: The formula codes under the formula types above.
- Formula Name: The corresponding names of the codes above.
- Formula Price: The price of the formula.
- Unit of Measure: The unit of measure of the formula price entered.

Operation Schedule

The operation schedule allows for the basic size or capacity of a plant or mill to be defined as well as any planned shut down of the mill whether its a single occurrence for retooling or for recurring shut downs such as holidays.

When the feed schedule is ran, it will report errors as "Operational Errors" on the Messages Tab. These errors are logistical warnings, and will not prevent feed schedule records from being created.

Feed mills will have their plant capacities saved in their operation schedules, either as a base capacity or included in occurrence patterns. Conversely, capacities may also be entered by shifts in the base capacity or occurrence pattern. This feature will calculate a feed mill's capacity for a day.

The schedule will look for a Single Occurrence for the day being processed, then it will look for a Repeating Occurrence for the day being processed if a Single Occurrence does not exist and lastly it will look for a Base Capacity for the date being processed if a Repeating Occurrence does not apply for that day. If none apply for the day being processed, the capacity for the day is zero.

Feed Schedule

The Feed Schedule tab only applies to the Feed Mill form. The field allows for the pointing of feed scheduling batch files to a specific directory.

Allocation

The allocation tab lists all farm affiliations with the plant or mill.