v2.3 Release Notes

Release Date

20/02/2020

Other Application Requirements

Check prior versions

Warnings or Notices

None

Release Date

15/01/2020

Other Application Requirements

Check prior versions

Warnings or Notices

None

VDIST-1127

Unplanned Delivery - BI

Report

2.3.1

BI

New report added which is showing unplanned deliveries defined by

manifest date > 7 days
No manifest associated

RFC-562

No

No

VDIST-1140

Delivery - Status 'P' after booked date entered

Issue

2.3.3

Deliveries

After a booking date is entered for a delivery, in the back end the held reason for ‘Awaiting Booking’ is not removed which later causes an issue with the delivery update job from VW, which prevents the delivery from being updated from status P to O.

VW-4630;VSUP-12010;VW-4632;VDIST-1123

No

No

VDIST-1137

Delivery - View route

Issue

2.3.3

Route planning - automated

The user has to close and reopen the delivery screen after saving a PD delivery for the charges > 'View Route' button to appear.

No

No

VDIST-1136

Route planning - multiple manifests per driver

Issue

2.3.3

Route planning - automated

When multiple manifests are prepared for a driver, the user clicks 'Accept Plan' and all deliveries are put on to a single manifest.

No

No

VDIST-1135

Route planning - layout

Issue

2.3.3

Route planning - automated

When a user saves their layout after changing the column sizes, it's not being recalled correctly.

No

No

VDIST-1129

User groups - default administrator group

Issue

2.3.3

General

During the system updates, we need a way to be sure which group is an administrator account, to setup access to new features, new enquiries etc so that customers know they exist.

When systems are first setup, an administrator group is created by default. Some customers change the name of this and later may not use it as an administrator group.

Changes will be implemented to ensure that there is always a top level administrator group which our accounts will be linked to, as well as the default customer administrator accounts and this will not be able to be changed.

VW-4345;VB-985;VINVOICING-593;VC-2089

No

No

VDIST-1124

Depot Plan - Performance

Issue

2.3.3

Route planning - manual

When working with large datasets the new Depot Plan screen can run 100-200% slower than it did before when performing certain tasks.

VSUP-11381;VDIST-1128

No

No

VDIST-1122

VBI - Latest update

Issue

2.3.3

BI

Include the latest VBI v1.1.3 fixes and updates.

No

No

VDIST-1114

Delivery address - field consistency

Issue

2.3.0

Deliveries

On deliveries in the Delivery Point tab the use of the word "Consignee" is inconsistent with the wording we have used elsewhere in the system.

This will be renamed to be "Name / Business"

Also for consistency and backward compatibility the other field are to have additional identifiers

No & Street (Add1)
Building Name (Add2)
(Add3)
Town

Search Results also need to be updated.

Generic Description would be “DP Name”

This is to differentiate it from the Collection Point or intermediate depot point.

RFC-610

No

No

VDIST-1068

Depot Plan - Column headers

Issue

2.2.0

General

On the Depot Plan, unable to move the columns where you want them.

VSUP-11599;VSUP-10338

No

No

VDIST-926

Transport Item - Tabbing

Issue

2.1.1

Maintenance

The tabbing index on some tabs is inconsistent, plus some other validation and display issues.

VSUP-8845;VSUP-10278;VSUP-10479;VW-3919

No

No

VDIST-1104

Depot Plan - Planned Arrival Time column

Design Change

2.3.0

Route planning - automated

Users would like to see the ‘Planned arrival time’ for the manifest shown.

VDIST-828;VSUP-10946

No

No

VDIST-1139

Deliveries on hold - manual delivery IDs

Bug

2.3.3

General

We have a button in each of the tabs to open the delivery, for manual deliveries the '0' prefix is being omitted.

No

No

VDIST-1138

Route planning - hours

Bug

2.3.3

Route planning - automated

The 'hours' displayed in the Depot Plan for all manifests created from the automated route planning do not agree with the values shown to the user in the map table.

No

No

VDIST-1132

Archive delivery - charge tab error

Bug

2.3.3

Deliveries

When viewing deliveries within the archive and you switch to the Charges tab, the following error is shown "Column 'TotalPhysicalPallets' does not belong to table tblDelivery".

VSTASK-2060

No

No

VDIST-1126

Depot Plan - Moving Deliveries

Bug

2.3.3

Deliveries

When moving multiple deliveries it's not updating the manifest details (e.g. drops, weight), nor can the manifest be expanded to see the deliveries beneath it.

VSUP-11598

No

No

VDIST-1125

Depot Plan - Repick Documentation

Bug

2.3.3.1

Route planning - manual

The repick documentation that is meant to generate when finalising manifests does not generate for systems who use depot printing.

VSUP-11497

No

No

VDIST-1121

Route Plan - Accept Plan

Bug

2.3.3

Route planning - automated

Syntax error when hitting Accept Plan when the data submitted (such as delivery address line 1) contains apostrophes.

VSUP-11363;VCC-881

No

No

VDIST-1119

Delivery - Geolocation Restriction

Bug

2.3.3

Deliveries;Route planning - manual

Restrictions entered for a postcode are not automatically attached to deliveries to that postcode, and when manually adding them the routing system is not matching the delivery with a suitable driver.

VSUP-11247;VLIVE-202

No

No

VDIST-1118

Delivery - Time 2 fields

Bug

2.3.3

Deliveries

When opening a delivery if the TIme2 fields do not have times defined the screen will show the time the delivery was opened.

VSUP-11185

No

No

VDIST-1098

Delivery area - category validation

Bug

2.2.0.1

Maintenance

The category field is not being validated in the delivery area screen.

No

No

Release Date

19/09/2019

Other Application Requirements

Check prior versions

Warnings or Notices

None

VDIST-1117

Delivery - time windows

Bug

2.3.2

Deliveries

Delivery time windows are not showing when opening deliveries (archived deliveries are fine however).

VSUP-11127

No

No

VDIST-1111

VW> VD Update - Missing address details

Bug

2.2.0.2

Deliveries

Orders were being pulled from VW into VD without their address details being pulled over despite the address being in VW.

VSUP-10975

No

No

VDIST-1092

Delivery - Confirmation By Carrier

Change

2.3.0

Deliveries

Receiving an error when using the F11 key searching for the Carrier in the “Confirmation by Carrier” screen.

No

No

Release Date

30/08/2019

Other Application Requirements

Check prior versions

Warnings or Notices

None

VDIST-1112

Unprinted Manifests Report - Reasons

Bug

2.3.1

General

Due to changes made to the Unprinted Manifests report the reasons are not showing correctly as they did before, it’s showing the same reasons for all deliveries within the manifest, preventing users from easily finding problem deliveries which are holding up the automated manifest prints.

VSUP-11011

No

No

VDIST-1109

Deliveries - Total Weight

Issue

2.3.1

Deliveries,

Route planning - automated

The total weight for the deliveries is showing incorrectly.

No

No

VDIST-1106

Dashboards - Awaiting POD for Redeliveries

Issue

2.3.0

TV / Dashboards

The dashboards are not displaying statistics for the 'Deliveries without POD' when deliveries are redelivered.

No

No

Release Date

28/08/2019

Other Application Requirements

Check prior versions

Warnings or Notices

None

VDIST-1105

Delivery - Incorrect Weights 

Bug

2.3.0

Deliveries

When creating a delivery, the weight is showing incorrect

No

No

VDIST-1102

Route Plan - Drop Order

Bug

2.3.0

Route planning - automated, Route planning - manual

Order of the Drop points are changing from the Route Planner to the Depot Plan

No

No

VDIST-1071

Report - Orders Report

Bug

2.3.0

General

When selecting multiple statuses, the Total for (status) it showing the total for the whole document.  

No

No

VDIST-1004

Enquiry 101 Site Manifest Deliveries 

Design Change

2.1.5

BI

Enquiry 101 Site Manifest Deliveries - was created for a specific customer with specific site codes, will now be changed to work for all.

VDIST-1003, VDIST-803

No

No

VDIST-1106

Dashboards - Awaiting POD for Redeliveries

Issue

2.3.0

TV / Dashboards

The dashboards are not displaying statistics for the 'Deliveries without POD' when deliveries are redelivered.

No

No

VDIST-1007

VW > VD customer import - email

Issue

2.2.0

General

The VW to VD customer import job is not defaulting the customer's email address, it'll be changed to do this but users will be permitted to later change the VD email address to something different to the VW record if required.

No

No

Release Date

20/08/2019

Other Application Requirements

VDG v2.4.3+

Warnings or Notices

None

VDIST-1083

Manifest & delivery notes - RePick Manifest with driver info

New Feature

2.2.0

Deliveries

Stage 1 - when the manifest is finalised, it currently prints the manifest and delivery notes to the printer for the transport teams.  It will now also send an email to the DELIVERY DEPOT manifest repick address, this email will contain

* Copy of the manifest
* A re-pick note which will be designed to print grouped customer and in a summary format allowing multiple on a page where possible.

RFC-562

No

No

VDIST-772

Delivery quotation - haulier job acceptance email

New Feature

1.13.3

Report Template

Automatic email sent to haulier address when confirming the job with the selected haulier.

RFC-211

No

No

VDIST-1009

Planning Screen Enhancements

Improvement

2.1.5

Route planning - manual

Depot Plan
1) Ability to open a delivery from the window
2) Add Delivery Date filter and default it to be UPTO and Including the date selected.
3) Change Picked in Advance to Advanced Deliveries, showing deliveries where the calculated date is beyond the next delivery date
4) Finalisation of the manifest shoudl print manual as well as VW notes, also including replanned deliveries as the first note should not be considered as being available.  

Route Plan
1) Delivery Date should be UPTO and including the date selected
2) Bottom right hand grid for consignments to choose needs to be made larger both in height and width if possible

Delivery
1) Change Weight to be Line Weight to stop needing to calculate the weight manually.

No

No

VDIST-940

Integrate VBI 1.1.1

Improvement

2.1.0

General

Integration of the latest version of VBI to fix some bugs & minor improvements.

No

No

VDIST-918

Reason / problem codes for ePOD

Improvement

2.1.1

Maintenance

A new field to control if problem / reason codes are available to ePOD, to be used in a future version of ePOD.

No

No

VDIST-882

Manifest search screen - postcode

Improvement

2.1.1

Nav - Form

The postcode will be shown to the left of the drop number on the screen which loads from the manifest search result, this will help looking into issues with ePODs and missing signatures.

VDIST-676

No

No

VDIST-857

Manifest Finalisation 

Improvement

2.1.0

Route planning - manual

Add a new service against the carrier / carrier item called "Send finalised manifest via email"

A new email field will be needed and if the carrier is set to send it will send for all vehicles (items) alternatively if only set for the item then just sends for the item.

When the job is finalised the service will poll the manifests and decide if it needs to send the information (manifest) as a pdf to the email address, should the carrier have the haulier extract marked as needed this will also be sent on the same email at the same time.

One email to one manifest.

The system will also have to show if a manifest has been emailed, and at what time.

No

No

VDIST-829

Route planning - consignments columns

Improvement

2.1.0

Route planning - automated

The 'Order Date' will be added to the list of available columns for the consignments grids.

No

No

VDIST-828

Depot plan enhancements for manifests created by route planning

Improvement

2.1.0

Route planning - automated

Users would like to see the following fields for the manifest shown:

 - Total KM
 - Total duty hours
 - Planned arrival time

...these cannot be recalculated so any manual adjustments to the results by users (for example adding new deliveries to the manifest) would result in erroneous records, as such any manually edited by the users would need to be marked as such and displayed in the front end and saved.

No

No

VDIST-1050

Delivery - Charges for D / I status

Design Change

2.2.0

Deliveries

When deliveries are being updated to status D/I many fields in the charge tab appear to be wiped, this is because the values are calculated, but we don't recalculate for D/I status deliveries, as such the fields will be saved and displayed instead.

VSUP-9688

No

No

VDIST-1080

Transport dashboards - return deliveries

Issue

2.2.0.1

General

The transport dashboards are including return deliveries in the outstanding deliveries / manifests stats.

No

No

VDIST-1075

Delivery - Charge band

Issue

2.2.0.1

Deliveries

Users are unable to change the charge band, the system keeps reverting it.  A 'Fixed' checkbox has been added to allow the user to fix the charge band.

VDIST-1062, VSUP-9688

No

No

VDIST-1070

Manifest Search - Cancelled order

Issue

2.3.0

Deliveries

When an order is cancelled in VW but if the manifest was already created, upon searching for the manifest number it shows an error.

No

No

VDIST-1057

Depot Plan - Finalising multiple

Issue

2.2.0

General

If we manually choose more than one manifest to finalise, only first manifest was getting printed.

VDIST-927

No

No

VDIST-1051

Create Delivery - Specify Times

Issue

2.2.0

Deliveries

Error occurred upon saving the delivery once the 'Specify time' is checked and then unchecked and then delivery saved.

No

No

VDIST-1017

Depot plan - changing a delivery's depot

Issue

2.1.5

Deliveries

When moving Delivery's to another Depot it is slower in comparison to the Depot Plan (Old) screen.  It also keeps changing to the 'Past' tab.

VSUP-9160

No

No

VDIST-1003

Deliveries held - auto released too early

Issue

2.1.5

General

Deliveries are being taken off hold whilst awaiting user restriction confirmation when they are picked.
They should remain on hold until the confirmation is received.

No

No

VDIST-999

Manifest Message for ePOD - scrolling

Issue

2.1.5

General

When using the scrollbar to go to the bottom of the screen, the last manifest is getting cut off. 

No

No

VDIST-992

Delivery lines - proportionate value

Issue

2.1.4

Deliveries

Against the delivery lines we store the invoice cases to get an idea of the proportionate value of each line when compared to the overall delivery charge.  A problem occurs when we have a delivery with one line, for 11 singles of a 12 pack which charges an overall 1 total invoice case but at the line we have 0.917.

A change will be made to introduce a new field to store the correct proportionate value of the line when compared to the delivery total, which would show 1 or 100% in the example above.

No

No

VDIST-946

Depot Plan - Speed up

Issue

2.1.0

Route planning - manual

The "new" depot plan is still slower to use when compared to the "Old Depot Plan", this will be fixed so we can later remove the "Old Depot Plan".

No

No

VDIST-927

Depot plan - finalising multiple

Issue

2.1.1

Deliveries

Users can only finalise one manifest or ALL manifests - an error appears if the user selects multiple manifests and clicks on 'Finalise Selected'.

No

No

VDIST-1088

Depot plan - moving deliveries

Bug

2.1.6

Route planning - manual

Depot plan screen has various issues when moving a delivery from one manifest to another.

VSUP-10544

No

No

VDIST-1064

Enquiry - Unprinted Manifest Report

Bug

2.2.0

General

After changes made on VDG-107 the Unprinted manifest report is not clearing manifests that have generated.

VSUP-10142, VDG-110

No

No

VDIST-1052

Pre-Advice - EDI Pick Up and Returns charge issues

Bug

2.2.0

Deliveries

Pick up + Return Deliveries created through EDI are not pulling through their charges correctly and therefore are not applying Transport discounts, however, VW Pre-Advice does show correctly.

VSUP-9617

No

No

VDIST-1047

Route Planning - Accept Plan speed

Bug

2.1.6

Route planning - automated

After clicking Accept plan the system takes too long to save each manifest.

VSUP-9671

No

No

VDIST-1040

Delivery - Site code

Bug

2.1.6

Deliveries

There are instances whereby the delivery site code is being reset to the first site (when the same customer code is setup against multiple site codes).

VSUP-9591

No

No

VDIST-1039

Load plan - PD kind

Bug

2.2.0

Deliveries

Load plan - Pickup & Delivery kind deliveries are not available in the create load plan screen.

No

No

VDIST-1035

Route Planning - PR delivery travel time

Bug

2.1.5

Route planning - automated

When using the automated route planning screen for a pickup (and return stock to depot), the map appears to be showing the route correctly however the results table is not, some issues fixed in VDIST-1012 except for the travel time, this issue will complete the last of the PR issues.

No

No

Release Date

10/05/2019

Other Application Requirements

Vision Live v5.2.3+ (for route planning)

Warnings or Notices

VDIST-647:

The default columns displayed in the Depot Plan are changing, if you find that one of the columns you use has disappeared then right click the column headings, select 'Field Chooser' and add it back in to the desired position.

VDIST-1048:

The routing engine providers have a bug in their service requiring you to set the drivers 'max transport point count per tour' to an additional +1 to work correctly.  The fix is available and our server update is being arranged.  The field can be set correctly after the server is updated.

VDIST-695

Report - Manifest

Report

2.1.1

Report Template

Improve the Manifest to bring it in line with the functionality available in the system with concise terms

I *Despatch Information*
 1. Site column - Renamed to Dispatching Address - Displays the full address of the dispatching location.
 2. Despatch Date - The dates when the goods are due to be picked up from the dispatching warehouse.
 3. Despatch Time - The time when the goods are due to be picked up from the dispatching warehouse.

II *Delivery Point Information*
 1. Name column - Renamed to Destination Address.  Displays the name, addressline1, town, postcode of the destination location.
 2. Booked Date - This is the date when the goods are due to be delivered to Destination Address.
 3. Booked Time - This is the time when the goods are due to be delivered to desintation address.

It should print in DROP Order as per route planning, if automated planning is done then estimated times should be shown.

If there are different types of deliveries, such as pick up and drop elsewhere each is to have its own section as they would not be within the depot Delivery or pick and return.

RFC-121

No

No

VDIST-1048

Route plan - Multiple deliveries to same address

Issue

2.1.6

Route planning - automated

When multiple deliveries are being delivered to the same address they are not considered at the same delivery for the transport item 'Max Transport Point Count Per Tour' setting.



A new depot setting will be added 'Accumulate delivery stops by address' to enable this.

VLIVE-169, VSUP-9299

No

No

VDIST-1046

Delivery - Manifest Message Screen

Issue

2.2.0

General

Receiving an error when clicking Search in the Manifest Message screen.

No

No

VDIST-1031

Create Delivery - Save 

Issue

2.2.0

Deliveries

While trying to create delivery and click Save button, it is not validating the postcode address automatically.

No

No

VDIST-1023

Transport Item - Exception

Issue

2.1.6

Maintenance

While trying to edit Delivery Depots tab under View/Edit Transport Item screen, it shows an exception.

No

No

VDIST-805

Route Planning - Top Filters

Issue

2.1.0

Route planning - automated

The filters on the screen are being applied to the selected items, when they should only apply to the unselected deliveries on the left side.

VDIST-787

No

No

VDIST-1008

TV screen stats

Improvement

2.1.5

General

The stats TV screen has had some improvements following feedback.

No

No

VDIST-676

Nav - View Manifest

Improvement

2.1.5

Nav - Form

View manifest

The grid will be updated to the new version and will be tidied up at the same time, new changes will be introduced to make it easier to see potential issues on current routes, including:
* Highlighting of delivery times when revised ETAs do not fall between the delivery windows
* Highlighting of the revised ETA if more than 2 hours outside of the originally calculated ETA
* Delivered lines will be greyed out but still visible
* Ordering the grid by drop number

A new BI enquiry will also be created showing similar information but problem lines only.

Manifest search
Will be improved to allow finding a manifest by customer information (i.e. customer code, doc ref, postcode) to facilitate finding a manifest out for delivery and seeing the above screen giving a good idea of the current status for any chasing customers.

RFC-43

No

No

VDIST-647

Distribution Planning - Depot Plan

Improvement

2.1.4

Route planning - manual

Improvements to the Depot Planning Screen

Have the ability to show the following fields on the screen to assist with planning:
 - Delivery area

...plus the new EDI fields from Delivery Option, below:
 - Service Codes - indication that there are codes and display on mouseover
 - Service Level - display this field
 - Area Number - display this field

Changes to the default columns displayed will be made but the existing 'Field chooser' available by right clicking the column headings will have all fields available for users to choose which fields they prefer to see.

RFC-8

No

No

VDIST-1036

Depot Plan - Moving a delivery back

Bug

2.1.6

Deliveries

When moving all the Deliveries to a Manifest you are unable to move one back to the left hand side.

No

No

VDIST-1021

Geolocation Restriction - adding service code

Bug

2.1.5

Maintenance

When trying to add a service code to a Geolocation Restriction on systems with large datasets the process is timing out which is resulting in a BMC error being thrown.

VSUP-9222

No

No

VDIST-1016

Delivery - Charge pop up

Bug

2.1.5

Deliveries

If you change the Charge on a Delivery and click the Recalculate Charges button the message window that pops up is confusing and the first time you make a choice, clicking the Recalculate button will show the message again but not afterwards.

VSUP-9161

No

No

VDIST-1012

Route Planning - PR deliveries

Bug

2.1.5

Route planning - automated

When using the automated route planning screen for a pickup (and return stock to depot), the map appears to be showing the route correctly however the results table is not.

No

No