📘 Screen: Budget - Monthly Operational Planning

After saying what each area will receive, this screen answers when: it spreads the planned consumption across the months of the season. It's step B in the menu — and it's where the budget's purchasing and cash flow come from.

📍 Location in the system

Menu: Budget > B - Monthly Operational Planning

🧩 How the screen works

At the top are the Scenario dropdown, the Allocation selector — Variable (hectares) or Fixed (amounts) —, the Fields/Crop/Technology dropdown, which picks the area you'll work on, and the Finalize/Lock Field button.

The screen is split in two:

  • Linked matrices, on the left: what that area received in Detailed Planning, with Matrix, Component, Component quantity and Unit.
  • Monthly Breakdown, on the right: one column per month of the scenario period (9/2024, 10/2024, 11/2024…) and the Total column. This is where you enter how much of each matrix happens in each month.

Buttons

  • Save — saves the breakdown.
  • Split Field Area — opens the window that spreads it automatically: Equal quantities, which splits evenly across the chosen months, or Set percentage, to say how much goes in each month.
  • Finalize/Lock Field — closes that area's planning and protects it from accidental changes.
⚠️ The screen works on one area at a time: pick the Fields/Crop/Technology before expecting to see data. And check the Allocation — variable and fixed have separate breakdowns; fixed has its own screen, Fixed Allocation (amounts).
✅ Result: with the monthly breakdown done:
  • The budget stops being a yearly number and becomes a consumption calendar.
  • Input purchases can be scheduled for the month they'll be used.
  • The season's expected cash flow takes shape.

❓ Frequently asked questions

Do I have to type every matrix month by month?

No. Use Split Field Area: choose Equal quantities to split evenly across the months or Set percentage to give each month its weight. Then adjust whatever you need by hand.

Which months show up in the columns?

Those of the scenario period — the start and end dates set on it. If a month is missing, adjust the period in Scenario.

What is Finalize/Lock Field for?

To mark the area as planned and prevent accidental changes after it's closed. It's the "done" for that block of area.

The screen is empty.

Check, in this order: the Scenario, the Allocation and the selected Fields/Crop/Technology. With no area chosen — or no matrices applied to it in Detailed Planning — there's nothing to spread.