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  • When reopening a Delivery using the navigation panel, if the charge has charge still adding the Delivery,

    • To change the charges for this delivery, you just need to click on No, however, if you want to keep the existing charges make sure you click on Yes

    • This will not show if the status of the delivery is at D Delivered or I Invoiced

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Delivery Kinds

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Delivery Kind

Notes Description

D - Delivery

This is a standard delivery from your Warehouse to another address

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PR - Pickup & Return To Warehouse

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The transporter will travel to another address (entered on the 3rd Party Collection Point tab) and then be brought back to your Warehouse.

PD - Pickup & Deliver Elsewhere

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Transport will travel to another address (entered on the 3rd Party Collection Point) and then taken to another address (entered in the Delivery Point tab)

Note

If the Pick UID starts with a zero then this Delivery has been created directly in Vision Distribution (or via EPOD)

This would happen if the Delivery has been created manually or by Vision Distribution when a re-delivery is required after the original Delivery encountered issues

Delivery Status

The Delivery Status shows the current state of the Delivery.

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Code

Name

Description

P

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Pending

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This is the first status when the Delivery first comes over from Vision Warehousing (before it is Picked in VW)

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O

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Outstanding

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If the Delivery is manually created in Vision Distribution, it will update to Status O the first time it is Saved successfully.

If the Delivery is Picked in Vision Warehousing it will update to Status O. 

C

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Despatched

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Either has been confirmed as despatched manually in Vision Distribution or confirmed despatched on an EPOD.

This is not confirmation that the goods have been delivered to their destination (see status D below). 

D

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Delivered

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Either has been confirmed as delivered manually in Vision Distribution or confirmed delivered in an EPOD. 

I

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Invoiced

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The system will detect that a Delivery has gone to Status D and will be updated to status I the nightly jobs run.

If you are also using Vision Invoicing status I indicate that the Delivery and any charges have gone over to be invoiced. 

X

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Cancelled

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If a Delivery is cancelled it will show as status X.

A cancelled Delivery cannot be un-cancelled.

  • The Re-Delivery will show as 'Yes' if this Delivery has been created by the system to arrange re-delivery where the original Delivery was unable to be completed.

    • If this is an original Delivery this field will show 'No'

  • The Re-Deliver Reason field will show why a Re-Delivery was required.

  • If this Delivery is marked as Re-Delivery = 'Yes' (see above) then the date the goods should be re-delivered will show here.

  • The Delivery Area tells Vision Distribution about where the goods are going to go, by which Transporter, and other information like lead times and valid days.

  • The Charge Band tells Vision Distribution about the kind of charging and how much to charge.

    • This field will auto-populate from the Delivery Area details (see above) when the Delivery Area is changed but you can change it manually if you need to.

    • Click the Fixed field if you want to prevent the Charge Band from updating automatically after you have manually changed it.

  • When a Delivery comes over from an Order in Vision Warehousing it will always contain a valid Product Code but although this field must contain something to pass validation it does not have to be a valid/existing Product Code when you create a Delivery manually in Vision Distribution.

    • This allows you to raise a Delivery for any goods or items that you need to and process it like any other Delivery that comes over from Vision Warehousing.

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