This chapter contains these topics:
To understand vehicle types (bulk, packaged, no product)
To understand why you might use a planning (dummy) vehicle
To define each vehicle you plan to use in the Load and Delivery Management system
To set up vehicle compartments for each vehicle, including vehicles with single and multiple compartments
To set up vehicle licenses, registration types, and effective dates
To set up vehicle equipment, such as pumps and hoses
To assign staff for a particular vehicle
To identify vehicles scheduled for routine maintenance or otherwise unavailable so the dispatcher can avoid assigning orders and trips to an out-of-service vehicle
To set up connected vehicles and define their characteristics
To set up prohibited product load sequences and prohibited product mix for vehicles
You must define a vehicle so that the Load and Delivery Management system can use the vehicles as a resource for the trip creation and delivery processes.
You can set up physically connected vehicles as a single logical entity, called a connected vehicle. The connected vehicle can be rail cars joined temporarily to form a train, or it might be trucks and trailers attached to one another. You can use connected vehicles to streamline the trip building and load confirmation process.
Additionally, you can set up prohibited product load sequences to specify which products cannot be loaded next into a compartment without flushing the compartment. You can set up prohibited product mix to specify which products cannot be safely loaded together on a vehicle.
Complete the following tasks to set up your vehicles:
Set up the vehicle master
Set up connected vehicles
Define prohibited products
You can define many types of vehicles to transport such products as:
Bulk products
Packaged products
No products (for example, tractor or power units)
A bulk vehicle is typically made up of multiple compartments and is designed to carry liquid, non-packaged products. A packed vehicle is designed to carry products that are packaged in a form suitable for consumers or resale. A vehicle designated not to carry product is typically a tractor or power unit that does not have storage capacity for any product.
For trip assignment, you can use the vehicle master to create a planning vehicle for temporary use in place of an actual vehicle. In the JD Edwards World software, a planning vehicle is referred to as a "dummy" vehicle. For example, your company might use contract vehicles to pick up and deliver products. In preparation for the arrival of the contract vehicle, the dispatcher might build a trip and assign a dummy vehicle.
In addition, you might use a planning (dummy) vehicle to ship product by train. If the cars on the train have identical characteristics, you can create a dummy vehicle with those characteristics and copy it as many times as required to build the train. The train you create is a connected vehicle made up of these dummy vehicles. When the train arrives for loading, you can enter the identifying registration numbers during load confirmation.