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Plan and Execute

General

Planning and Executing Transport operations in a Transport Company is a sport in itself. Indeed, once shipments are assigned to a trip, the next step is often for changes to occur immediately. Goods that are not available, addresses that cannot be reached, trips that go faster or slower than expected. In short, all hands on deck to still meet your customer's demand. The plan and execute functionality enables you to do so.

Transportation planning begins with the right classification of transport orders in the right routing schemes. In order to be able to plan sections quickly and adequately. This is important for manual planning in order to get an overview of the sections to be planned per area.

However routingstrategy and planboxes are not static. Due to seasonal influences, new customers, etc. continuously changes have to be implemented. Within 3PL Dynamics, these routings changes can be controlled adequately.

Functionality

Planbox or Routing Strategy functionality.

Depending on the requirements of a transport company 3PL can work either on Planbox or Routing Strategy.

  • Planbox functionality (Bottom up)
  1. On each section the area is determinated.
  2. The Planbox will be set based on the Area Code determinated.
  3. The Plan Department will be set based on the Plan Department set in the Planbox.
    See page: Planbox for more information.
  • Routing Strategy functionality (Top down)
    The Routing Strategy functionality offers even more flexibility on determinating the Department, Plan Departement and Planbox. For example:
  1. The Department is determinated based on a table-filter on the Order.
  2. The Plan Department is determinated based on a table-filter on the Order, a Region From Code, a Region To Code and a Criteria Function.
  3. The Planbox is deterimated on a table-filter on the Plan Department and *Region To Code.
    See page: Routing Strategy for more information.
Note
  • Routing Strategy is applicable when complex planning stuctures with multiply hubs and the depot-lanes are planned parallel through recurring orders, without an explicit assignment of concrete lanes because a section can be transported in more than 1 lane between the hubs.
  • When huge numbers of orders have to be processed the Routing Strategy is prefered because of performance reasons.

The menu Plan & Execute contains the following options:

  1. Visual Planning
  2. TMS Planning worksheet
  3. TMS Resource Planning Screens
  4. TMS Irregularity
  5. TMS Damages
  6. TMS Cargo Damages
  7. TMS Resource Damages

My Plan Departments

Users can operate on more than one Plan Department. To link a Planning Department to a user See page: My Plan Departments for more information.

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