About the Short Range Plan

When you create a Production Profile, you define the amount of product that can be consistently produced by a production unit without having any adverse effects on the piece of equipment or location or the quality of the product. This value is stored in the Maximum Sustained Capacity Rate field in the Production Profile.

When you create a Production Plan, with this value in mind, you can define the amount of product that you plan for that production unit to produce during a given time period. This value might be the same as the Maximum Sustained Capacity (MSC) rate, or it might be different based on your knowledge of planned events within the facility. The Short Range Plan can be edited to account for external and other factors that can impact production rate, such as weather and demand fluctuations. For example, known or anticipated loss of cooling capacity due to high ambient temperatures is a valid reason why MSC values could not be achieved. Additionally, demand for certain products increases or decreases seasonally, which is another valid reason why Short Range Planned values would be altered.

When you access the Production Data section of a Production Plan, for each product listed as an option, a row will be available for each period in the plan. Each row represents a separate set of Production Data. In each row, the value in the Short Range Plan column is a copy of the planned production value.

As you enter production values for a specific day, you can enter an adjusted planned production value based on significant events that occurred that day and could not have been predicted when the plan was created. For example, while a Production Plan might call for 15,610 barrels to be produced on June 1, if a hurricane occurs and the facility is shut down for several weeks for cleaning and repairs, you might want to indicate that the planned production during those days decreased significantly. The adjusted value will be stored in the Short Range Plan field in the Production Data.