Maintaining Shipments Manually

Use

Along with automatic planning with the optimizer , interactive planning also allows you to plan shipments manually.

For manual planning, the system takes the following constraints, among others, into account:

  • Vehicle resource capacities (as long as you schedule the resource finitely)

  • Resource availability

  • Loading resources (inbound/outbound) to locations

  • Opening times

  • Empty runs

  • Compatibilities/incompatibilities

  • Pickup or delivery windows

  • Schedules (only for multilevel manual planning)

  • Wait time

  • Maximum length of stay

You can plan interlinked shipments, multimodal shipments, and schedules in either the optimizer or manually in multilevel planning .

Procedure

Create Shipments

  1. You are in the planning view . Select a resource in the selec tion bar (shuffler). The screen name displays the resource description.

  2. On the Tabular Planning tab page, move freight units from the Unassigned Freight Units table to the Assigned Freight Units table . You can do this using drag and drop or by choosing Assign Order. You can remove a freight unit from the table using Remove Assignment .

  3. The Transportation Scheduling Specifications for Scheduling screen appears. There you edit the:

    • Loading and unloading durations

    • Sequence of the stops

    • Transportation duration

    • Arrival or departure date and time

      The system determines the default values for the loading durations from transportation and shipment scheduling . The system also generates a default value for the itinerary, which it determines from the stop-offs at all start locations and all destination locations. You define the sequence of stop-off points by adjusting the stop-off sequence. The system reads the shipment duration from the data from the relevant transportation lane. However, you can adjust this where necessary. You must enter at least one date/time for each shipment (for example, the arrival time at the last destination location). After your confirmation, the system creates a shipment as long as there is a possible date for the execution of the shipment in the planning horizon and the resource selected has enough capacity.

  4. Confirm your entries with Enter . The system adds a row with the relevant information in the Shipping Activities/Itinerary table and in the Assigned Freight Units table.

    You can display or change the created shipments in the shipment view in the selection bar (shuffler).

Change Shipments

You reschedule a shipment by selecting it with a double-click in the shipment view of the selection bar (shuffler), and then choosing Reschedule Shipment in the Shipping Activities table.

If you add additional freight units to a shipment in the shipment view, the whole shipment is rescheduled. You can do this until the shipment has been released.

Delete Shipments

You delete shipments by selecting them in the shipment view of the selection bar (shuffler) and by then using the right mouse button to choose Delete Shipment in the context menu .

If you deallocate all the freight units assigned to a shipment, the system deletes the shipment. If a shipment that is to be deleted has a freight unit assigned to it which is also assigned to other shipments, the system removes the freight unit from all shipments. This function is possible up until the shipment is released.