This screen will automatically calculate the most efficient Routes for a group of Transport Items and Consignments.
View Plan - This button will open a map screen showing the locations and routes that have been generated based on the criteria chosen above, allowing the data to be seen in a visual form
How long Generating a View Plan and showing the Map takes will depend on how many Transport Items and Consignments have been chosen when clicking the button.
Accept Plan button to accept the routing that has been generated for this plan when the View Plan button was clicked.
This will generate the Manifests and allocate the deliveries to them.Â
You must generate the Plan by clicking the View Plan button before it can be accepted with the Accept Plan button
Transport Items and Consignments Section:
There are two lists:
The left-hand list shows all available Transport Items that can be selected (but have not yet been selected).
The right-hand list shows all Transport Items that have already been selected.
To move an available Transport Item to the right-hand list:
Click a Transport Item to highlight it.
When you click and drag (by clicking on one of the highlighted Transport Items and holding down the mouse button) and move over the right-hand list and let go.Â
Click one of the selection buttons in the middle of the two Transport Item lists.
Click the single arrow button to move only the highlighted Transport Items.
Click the double arrow button to move all the available Transport Items in one go.
Perform the reverse of the two options above to move a Transport Item back to the available list on the left.
To move an available Consignment to the right-hand list:
Click a Transport Item to highlight it.
When you click and drag (by clicking on one of the highlighted Consignments and holding down the mouse button) and move over the right-hand list and let go.
Click one of the selection buttons in the middle of the two Consignment lists.
Click the single arrow button '>' or '<' to move only the highlighted Consignment.
Click the double arrow button '>>' or  '<<' to move all the available Consignments in one go.
Perform the reverse of the two options above to move a Consignment back to the available list on the left.
When you select your Transport Items you are selected all the Drivers who will be used for the current Plan
When you select your Consignments you are selecting all the Consignments you want the Transport Items to delivery for you.
When you have added all the Transport Items and Consignments you can click the View Plan and the system will try and work out the most efficient Plan.
A consignment can be viewed by double-clicking anywhere on that Consignment in either the left or right lists
The Parameters in this section can be used to override the standard configuration options set-up against the depot.
When all Parameter fields are left as Standard, all values will be considered with equal weighting.
If the weighting is changed on one of the Parameters, the weighting on this Parameter when generating the route will be adjusted depending on the options chosen.