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How To: Manage Cull
1. BackgroundIn many regions, mills will tend to 'cull' wood from loads that is deemed of below standard or inferior quality. When a mill culls a load, it generally reduces the pay weight of the load and will not pay for the amount culled. In The Logger's Edge you can use the 'Cull' indicator to allow you to enter the cull amounts on loads and then either pay or not pay for the amount culled.
2. Steps InvolvedSet Cull Support Flag
In the Basic Setup Window, the flag that enables 'Cull Support' needs to be turned on.
This action can only be performed by someone logged in as an administrator.
Load Ticket
With the 'Cull Support' flag turned on, the load ticket has two more entries: One for 'Cull Deduction' and one for 'Adj weight'. See Below.
The Adj (adjusted) Weight of the load is the Net Weight less the Cull Deduction.
Conversions
Where volumes
are hand entered, the cull amount is (and this subsection) irrelevant.
The Volume of the load, generally, is calculated as the Net Weight multiplied by the Conversion Factor for the Block. In The Logger's Edge you can set up your conversions work off the Adj Weight Instead. In the Block Setup Wizard, there is an additional checkbox 'Conversions based on Adj Net (Net less Cull)' that is activated when cull support in enabled. (See Below)
When the checkbox is checked, The Logger's Edge will calculate all conversions using the 'Adj Net' weight of the load as the starting point for all conversions.
For example, in the load ticket above, the net weight is 40,000 pounds and the Adj Net is 39,000 pounds. With the checkbox checked, the volume is calculated at 19.5 Tons, instead of 20 tons that would otherwise be calculated.
Revenue Contracts
Generally, the revenue you receive for a load is based on the weight of the load converted to a 'volume'. In the example above, the net weight is 40,000 pounds and the adjusted weight is 39,000 pounds. The question is this: If you are being paid by $20/ton to deliver this load how much will you be paid? If you are being paid for the load excluding the cull amount, you would want base your volume on the adjusted weight; if you are paid based on the full amount of the load (without a deduction for cull), you would want to base your volume on the net weight.
When you set up revenue rates in The Logger's Edge, with cull support turned on, there will an additional column in the revenue rates grid that allows you to specify whether or not the rate is based on the converted weight (before cull deduction) or the adjusted net (after cull deduction).
The 'Pay by Adj Net' column indicates for each rate whether or not the rate should be based on the 'Net Weight' or the 'Adj Weight'. As the example shows, you can set some rates set to be based on the Net and others to be based on the Adj Weight.
Pay Contracts
Pay rates work in a similar manner. In the example above, the net weight is 40,000 pounds and the adjusted weight is 39,000 pounds. The question is this: If you have to pay a logger or trucker $20/ton to deliver this load how much will you pay? If you pay for the load excluding the cull amount, you will want base your pay weight on the adjusted weight; if you pay for the load after the cull deduction -- that is, don't pay for the cull amount -- you will want to base your pay weight on the adjusted weight.
Like revenue rates, when you set up pay rates in The Logger's Edge, with cull support turned on, there will an additional column in the pay rates grid that allows you to specify whether or not the rate is based on the converted weight (before cull deduction) or the adjusted net (after cull deduction).
The 'Pay by Adj Net' column indicates for each rate whether or not the pay rate should be based on the 'Net Weight' or the 'Adj Weight'. As the example shows, you can set some pay rates set to be based on the Net and others to be based on the Adj Weight.
