Dispatch

Setup

• Simple creation of vehicles and drivers, with unit capacity and range information for the automatic scheduling algorithm
• Route creation using postcode data, towns and ordinance survey grid references. Waypoints are set up with a radial distance area to ensure full coverage.
• Creation route schedules to plan the coverage of dispatch and the timing and spread of deliveries

Functional

• Automatic order assignment on a route, based on capacity, factory capacity, location, schedule and order type.  Customers pick their own date.
• Orders can be assigned and reassigned to routs manually when orders are outside the range or norm of the dispatch schedule
• The schedule can be run over a year or modified perpetually as work dictates
• Orders can be palletised, part dispatched, collections can be raised on delivery, products are barcoded on and off vehicles
• Point of delivery POD is created at the point of delivery and signed for digitally on PDA barcode scanners.
• The system is informed of the dispatch process automatically when the devices return to base and POD is attached to the factory order for accounting audit trail
• Collated items can be checked on and off as one item for ease of use of palletised goods

 
Informational

• Expected deliveries and to follows can be seen live on a week view with full visibility down to the individual item level along with its status and progress thorough the factory for advanced warning of problems.
• Route coverage is plotted on a map to show holes in location coverage
• Orders not assigned to routes can be seen and are prioritised by delivery date for reassignment
• Create of delivery notes and other documentation is centralised and fully automated, alerts are sent to Accounts through the systems advanced alerting function to process with invoicing