One of your ideas has been delivered from your suggestion.Bid Option Pickup Delivery Validation Check

This feature provides you with the option of validating the Pickup Time and/or Dropoff Time Bid Options entered by your Service Providers on the Spot Bid Tender Response UI.  Specifically, this feature, when configured, will validate:

  • if the Pickup Time Bid Option is earlier than the Offer Pickup Time - if it is, an error message will be raised, and the Bid Option will not be saved and/or
  • if the entered Dropoff Time is later than the Offer Delivery Time - if it is, an error message will be raised, and the Bid Option will not be saved.

In the example below, the feature has been configured to validate both the Pickup Time and Dropoff Time Bid Options.  This was accomplished by setting the properties glog.webserver.tender.spotBid.deliveryTimeCheck and glog.webserver.tender.spotBid.pickUpTimeCheck set to true.

In the first example the Bid Option Pickup Time being proposed by the Service Provider is at 9:00 am, but the Offer Pickup Time 11:41 am is later than this Bid Option value being proposed.

Property true and Pickup Time Bid Option is Earlier Than Offer Pickup Time

Property true and Pickup Time Bid Option is Earlier Than Offer Pickup Time

When the Service Provider attempts to save the Bid Option above, they will receive the error message below.

Property true and Pickup Time Bid Option is Earlier Than Offer Pickup Time Error Message

Property true and Pickup Time Bid Option is Earlier Than Offer Pickup Time Error Message

In the example below, the Bid Option time entered for the Dropoff Time (15:00) is later than the Offer Delivery Time (13:11).

Property true and Dropoff Time Bid Option is Later Than Offer Delivery Time

Property true and Dropoff Time Bid Option is Later Than Offer Delivery Time

When the Service Provider attempts to save the Bid Option above, they will receive the error message below.

Property true and Dropoff Time Bid Option is Later Than Offer Delivery Time Error Message

Property true and Dropoff Time Bid Option is Later Than Offer Delivery Time Error Message

For the same Bid Options, but with the properties glog.webserver.tender.spotBid.deliveryTimeCheck and glog.webserver.tender.spotBid.pickUpTimeCheck set to false - the default, the same Bid Options are accepted - as shown below.

Property false and Pickup Time Bid Option is Earlier Than Offer Pickup Time - Accepted

Property false and Pickup Time Bid Option is Earlier Than Offer Pickup Time - Accepted

Property false and Dropoff Time Bid Option is Later Than Offer Delivery Time - Accepted

Property false and Dropoff Time Bid Option is Later Than Offer Delivery Time - Accepted

Business Benefit: This feature helps ensure that the Bid Options entered with either a proposed Pickup Time and/or Dropoff Time are valid. 

Steps to Enable and Configure

To take advantage of this new feature you will need to configure one of or both of the properties below.

By default these properties are set to false:

  • glog.webserver.tender.spotBid.deliveryTimeCheck
  • glog.webserver.tender.spotBid.pickUpTimeCheck

Tips And Considerations

These properties only apply to ServProv users, this properties do not impact your Planning users.

The Time Zone used to display the Offer Pickup Time and the Offer Delivery Time are configured using the Service Provider's User Preference, the Pickup Time and Delivery Time Bid Options will use the stops related location Time Zone. If the User Preference Time Zone selected by the Service Provider is different from the Time Zones related to the shipment stop locations, the validation will be correctly translated between the different Time Zones.