About Margin Selection

When you access the Production Data workspace, the value in the Margin field in all new Production Data records is set by default to the value in the Default Margin field in the associated Production Profile record (i.e., the Production Profile record that is linked to the Production Plan record that you selected when you accessed the workspace).

For instance, suppose that on July 1, the value in the Default Margin field in a Production Profile record is 5.00. In this case, new Production Data records that are created on or after July 1 for the Production Plan record to which that Production Profile record is linked will contain the value 5 in the Margin field. If, however, on July 16 the value in the Default Margin field is changed to 6.00, any new Production Data records that are created on or after July 16 for the same Production Plan record will contain the value 6 in their Margin field.

Keep in mind that Production Data records are created automatically when you access the Production Data workspace. The number of records that are created depends on the day on which you access the workspace and the planning period of the Production Plan record that you selected when you accessed the workspace.

For example, suppose the planning period in a Production Plan record is July 1 through July 31. If you were to access the Production Data workspace for that Production Plan record for the first time on July 15, fifteen Production Data records would be created (one for each day between July 1 and July 15). Each of those records would contain the same value in the Margin field because they were all created at the same time.

So, using the same example, if you were to increase the value in the Default Margin field on July 16 and access the Production Data workspace again on July 16, one new Production Data record would be created to represent July 16, and the value in its Margin field would be the updated value in the Default Margin field in the Production Profile record.

The value in the Margin Value field in Production Data records is used to calculate the Cost of losses for a Production Plan, which appears in the Production Summary workspace.