📘 Screen: Budget - Scenario
A scenario is a version of the budget. "Good Scenario", "Conservative Scenario", "Scenario with the dollar at 6.00": each one is a complete plan, with its own dollar rate and its own yield and sale price expectations for each area.
The scenario is what appears in the dropdown at the top of almost every screen in the module — and switching it switches the entire budget you're looking at.
📍 Location in the system
Menu: Budget > Scenario
🧩 Main function
Let you simulate. Instead of redoing the budget every time a question comes up, you clone the idea into another scenario, change what you want to test — the exchange rate, expected yield, the price per bag — and compare the two in the Summary.
The list bar has the Season filter, which separates the scenarios of each budget season.
📝 Record fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Code | Sequence number of the scenario (0001). |
| Name/Description | A name that says what it represents — "Good Scenario", "Locked price". |
| Dollar Unit Value | The rate used in this scenario. It's one of the most obvious levers for simulation. |
| Start Date (from) | Start of the budgeted period. |
| End Date (to) | End of the period. Together with the start date, it defines the month columns of the monthly breakdown. |
| Active | A discarded scenario drops out of the lists without being deleted. |
🗂 Fields/Crop/Technology tab
This is where the scenario gets its content: each budget area comes in with what is expected from it.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Fields/Crop/Technology | The budget area being added to the scenario. |
| Crop | What will be planted in that area. |
| Total Area (ha) | Hectares considered in the scenario — it can differ from the registered area, if you want to simulate less area. |
| Expected average harvest | Expected yield, in bags per hectare. It's the "how much I think I'll harvest". |
| Expected sale price | Expected price per bag. |
| Expected by-product sale price | Expected price of the by-product, when there is one — cottonseed, for example. |
The tab's list shows Field, Sector, Crop and Area, and the sum of those lines becomes the budget's expected revenue.
- You can answer "what if the dollar goes up?" without redoing the budget.
- Expected revenue and expected cost sit in the same place, comparable.
- Input purchasing decisions get a reference scenario.
❓ Frequently asked questions
How do I compare two scenarios?
Build both and open the Summary, switching the scenario in the dropdown at the top: cost, expected production and expected profit appear for the selected scenario.
I switched the scenario in the dropdown and the data disappeared.
It didn't disappear: each scenario has its own plan. If the new scenario hasn't received matrices in Detailed Planning yet, the screens really are empty.
Does the scenario area have to match the field register?
No. The tab's Total Area (ha) field is the area considered in that scenario — it's what lets you simulate planting less, or swapping one crop for another on the same area.