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You can change the location of a transportation stage that has already been scheduled. This can be necessary in the following cases:

  • You have accidentally created the forwarding order with the incorrect location data. You discovered this mistake during scheduling and want to correct it.

  • The actual route has been scheduled correctly, however, a discrepancy arises during execution, for example, the truck does not drive to the scheduled pre-carriage location. It goes to another location instead. You want to change this in the related execution document.

  • After you have created the forwarding order and scheduled the transportation stages, you realize that the goods need to be transported to another location. You want to adapt this in the actual route of the forwarding order.

Features

You can change locations in the freight unit or in the related execution document, in other words, in the freight order, freight booking, trailer unit, or railcar unit. If you change a location, the system checks automatically whether the it can transfer the changes to all related documents and then executes one of the following actions:

  • The system adapts the locations in the documents.

  • It adds new locations.

  • If the system cannot adapt the locations, it deletes the existing assignments.

Moreover, the system adapts the following data automatically:

  • It automatically recalculates the durations and distances.

  • If you have changed the location in a freight booking, the system adapts pick-up and delivery in the related freight documents.

If you change the locations in a freight unit and the related execution document is locked, the system automatically undoes the change.

Example

Example 1:

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Example 1

A freight order with one freight unit goes from A to C via B.

The truck now goes to X instead of B. In the freight order, you replace location B by X. The system checks whether it can replace B with X in the freight order. As the freight order consists of only one freight unit, the freight unit can be adapted accordingly.

Example 2:

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Example 2

Freight order 1 for pre-carriage goes from A to B; follow-on freight booking 1 for the main carriage goes from B to C. Freight unit 1 goes from A to C.

During scheduling, you realize that freight booking 1 should not go from B to C. Instead it should go from X to C. Therefore, in freight booking 1, you replace location B with X. The system checks whether it can also replace B with X in the freight unit. It adds an in-between transportation stage from B to X, so that freight unit 1 goes from A to C via B and X.

Example 3:

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Example 3

A freight order goes from A to C via B. Two freight units are loaded.

  • Freight unit 1 goes from A to C via B

  • Freight unit 2 goes from A to B

During planning you realize that freight unit 1 is to be delivered via X instead of via B. Adapt freight unit 1 accordingly. The system then tries to adapt the freight order. This is not possible due to freight unit 2. For this reason, the system automatically removes the scheduling for freight unit 1. Freight unit 2 is still assigned to the original freight order.