3 Review Delivery Capacity
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3.1 Reviewing Delivery Capacity
From Load and Delivery Management (G49), choose Dispatcher Activities
From Dispatcher Activities (G4911), choose Resource Load Inquiry
Before building a trip, you might want to review your depot's ability to deliver product for a given day or shift. The Resource Load Inquiry program provides a summary of the gross throughput capacity, the total volume commitments already made against the capacity, and the resulting net delivery capacity remaining. This information allows you to determine if the depot can handle the planned load quantities for your trips. You can review resource load capacity for bulk or packaged products.
The system derives this information from the setup entries made to the Throughput Capacity by Period program, which records a depot's capacity.
When a trip is entered and approved, the system updates the assigned quantity in the Resource Load Inquiry information.
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Complete the following fields:
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Depot
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Dispatch Group
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Mode of Transport
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Zone Number
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Start Date
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Accept the entries to display the capacity information.
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Review the information in the following fields for the corresponding day or shift:
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Capacity
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Assigned
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Available
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| Field | Explanation |
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| Depot | A code that identifies a separate entity within a business for which you want to track items and costs. This entity might be a warehouse location, job, project, work center, or branch/plant. The Branch/Plant field is alphanumeric. |
| Dispatch Group | A user defined code that identifies the dispatch group. A dispatch group is a grouping you make for products according to the physical characteristics that are important when storing and transporting those products.
During the trip building process, the system checks if the dispatch group for the item and the vehicle are compatible. The system only allows products belonging to the allowed dispatch groups to be assigned to the vehicle. |
| Mode of Trans | A user defined code (system 00, type TM) describing the nature of the carrier being used to transport goods to the customer, for example, by rail, by road, and so on. |
| Zone Number | The zone field is a user defined code (system 40, type ZN) that represents the delivery area in which the customer resides. This field is one of several factors used by freight summary facility to calculate potential freight charges for an order.
For picking you can use the zone code with the route and stop codes to group all item that are to be loaded onto a delivery vehicle for a specific route. You set up the default for each of these fields on the Customer Billing Instructions screen. |
| Start Date | You can enter a date with or without slashes (/) or dashes (-) as separators. If you leave a date entry field blank, the system supplies the current date.
Form-specific information The Day of Week field is for the day of the week abbreviation. This field corresponds with the estimated capacity, the actual throughput capacity load, and the available capacity for each day. |
| Capacity | The throughput capacity of your resources for each day. |
| Assigned | The actual throughput capacity assigned to approved trips for this day. |
| Available | The throughput capacity units minus the number of actual throughput capacity load. |