Feed Schedule Configuration

Code: Enter a code to be used that is unique to that Feed Schedule configuration

Description: Enter a description to describe this schedule.

Effective Date:  Enter an effective date this schedule will go into effect.

Status:  Select a status of Active or Inactive.  Inactive schedules will no longer be able to be applied.

Feed Buffer: The house must always have this amount in hours/days/weight worth of feed at all times

Time off Feed: The amount of time that the flock is allowed to be off of feed.

End of Flock Feed Buffer: The amount of feed at the end of flock that should be left in the house in case its needed.

Max Feed Supply Days: The maximum amount of days feed supply you want to be able to schedule a delivery for.

Delivery Time Prior to 1st Placement: The amount of time that feed should be delivered to the house prior to the first flock placement.

Committed Expiration Time: If a schedule is not committed within this amount of time, non-committed items will be included in the next schedule.

Consumption Table Priority: The standard table used to determine consumption.

Relations: Sets the Company/Divisions and the Industry Types the Expense Codes are associated with.

Ignore Plant Capacity: Ignore plant capacities set on the plant

Ignore Group Estimates: Ignore estimates and only use actuals

Apply Table Adjustments: If system table adjustments are set for a flock or house utilize them in the schedule.

Ignore Feed Profile Maximum: Specifies whether to ignore the maximum delivery size configured in the feed profile. With this setting checked, maximum delivery size goal is no longer triggered.

Ignore Feed Profile Minimum: Specifies whether to ignore the minimum delivery size configured in the feed profile. A feed delivery therefore can be any size (rounding can still occur).

Allow Mixed Feed Types in Feed Bin: Specifies whether the next feed profile can be mix with the current feed profile.

% Maximum Positive Adjustment: 

% Maximum Negative Adjustment: 

Round Rule: When we have a value that needs to be rounded, this will determine what the software does to get the rounded result:

Round: When we have a delivery amount that is not evenly divisible, the remainder will be rounded up or down, depending on whether it is greater or less than half the divisible amount.

Round Down: When we have an amount that is not evenly divisible, we will always round the value down to the next amount.

Round Up: When we have an amount that is not evenly divisible, we will always round the value up o the next amount.

Round UOM: The unit of measure for the "Round to Nearest" setting. If this is set to "KG", and Round to Nearest is set to "3", then all deliveries must be evenly divisible by three kilograms.

Round to Nearest: This is the value that determines how much a planned delivery is evenly divisible by. along with the unit of measure, this will determine what increments we will deliver in. If we want our deliveries calculated in 3MT increments, we set this to "3" and the units to "MT". If all we are concerned with is evenly rounded amounts, we'll set this value to "1".

Final Round to Nearest: The final feed delivery has exceptional logic that reconciles consumption, feed types and withdrawal at the end of the life of a flock, and rounding is no option. If you desire to rounding increment to differ, or not apply, to feed orders, you can set that here.

Round Feed Type: When we opt to round deliveries up to the next whole amount, we run the risk of delivering more feed than is specified in our feed profile goals. When a round up configuration does this, this informs the software what to do:

Round: Add the feed to the existing feed type, for the current delivery (delivering more than the goal).

Last: Add the feed to the existing feed type, for the current delivery (delivering more than the goal). <- This isn't a typo, at some point the logic for "round" was removed and the configuration garners the same results as choosing "Last".

Next: Create a new delivery for the next feed type and formula (delivering the goal and moving to the next ration).