Distribution v2.5

Version Number

2.5.0

Version Number

2.5.0

Release Date

01/01/2021

Other Application Requirements

SQL 2016 or late is required.

Warnings or Notices

See marked items below - there are version requirements.

ID

Summary

Issue Type

Affects versions

Description

Linked to

Config Needed

Licenced Module

VDIST-1218

Report Template - Arc Field Width

Report

2.3.0

ARC field to be widened on the customer template.

RFC-615

No

No

VDIST-887

Reports - Performance report

Report

2.1.0

This has been modified as follows :
Exporting to Excel - to export the report straight to a standard excel table with column headers at the top of the page. Ithe Depot and EPOD code as a column listed against each delivery.

Barcode - modified to show the PICKID not the order ID

DP Account Ref - added to the report

Date -  add the Date Delivered as a new column to the report and have the search options filter by this date.

RFC-240

No

No

VDIST-1212

Application licensing

New Feature

2.4.0

Changes to the application to integrate with the Vision licensing server, which will deliver your application licenses automatically to your desktop applications.

VC-1740

No

No

VDIST-977

Driver Duty master page 

New Feature

2.1.4

Create a master page for adding duty instructions the database

EPOD-244

No

No

VDIST-895

GDPR changes

New Feature

2.1.1

GDPR changes required to Vision Distribution.

You MUST have SQL 2016 or later for this version of Distribution

 

No

No

VDIST-862

Delivery terms & conditions

New Feature

2.1.0

Linked with EPOD-204, recent changes to ePOD can now require customers to accept terms & conditions prior to signing for a delivery, these can be configured by users within the application and will also be shown on the delivery notes.

EPOD-204

No

No

VDIST-861

Postal areas for non GB deliveries

New Feature

2.1.1

The system currently allows countries to be configured to 'use postcodes' or not, yet the postal areas are not linked to any country.  Meaning postal areas Currently apply to any country if the country has 'Uses postcode' ticked.

This will  link postal areas to a country, so for example DE postcode 76405 will not conflict with the same postcode for FR and users will be able to define different postal areas for each country.

Countries can be configured to make the postcode mandatory or not.  The users base country will be mandatory  We may have NL for example set up to use postcodes so if the order provides a postcode then we'll attempt to use the postal areas to set the delivery area etc, but if it's not available then we'll use the delivery area set up against the country instead as a fallback.

Requires VCISB-40 and VCISB-41 to make this work (Private Client Site)

VW-3301

No

No

VDIST-860

Supplier Invoice Recording

New Feature

2.1.0

The ability to record your supplier invoices against the manifest.

 

 

This assumes your haulier will be invoicing you for an entire manifest EXCEPT when the "Single Drops Priced" option is set when the charge needs to be per delivery on the invoice.

 

 

The invoice will be recorded on the screen, you will select which manifests (or deliveries) this invoice relates to, therefore it is important to have one carrier per supplier otherwise you will find it difficult to find the entries.

 

 

Each manifest will only show if there is outstanding invoice.

 

 

Once this has been entered, you will be able to scan the invoice onto the system, the system will then send a copy of the scanned document and embed the manifests onto the scan/document and forward to your accounts team for payment, an accounts extract for the invoice can also be provided in Sage200 format.

 

 

the assumption is that if the invoice is entered and checked on your system and you are not able to double associate invoices with manifests that effectively this is the approval for payment process.

 

 

Initial Entry of the invoice will take details such as the invoice number, invoice date, supplier (carrier needs to have the accounts system code on the form) invoice amount, vat elements. 

 

 

You will then be able to pick up and associate either deliveries or manifests with the invoice.

 

 

Only if it is complete and agrees will this be marked as AUTHORISED otherwise you will be able to save and leave items NOT associated hence a value difference and this will be marked as "CHECK INVOICE" on the information sent to the accounts team

VDIST-694

No

Yes

VDIST-1245

Manifest print - incorrectly showing ready to print

Issue

2.4.0

An issue was resolved - When we have a manifest which has not been finalised, and has only a single delivery on it which was then removed. the manifest then shows as ready to be printed and VDG continually keeps trying and failing to print notes for it until more deliveries are added and the load is finalised.

 

No

No

VDIST-1241

Carrier plan - delivery defaulting to wrong carrier

Issue

2.4.0

Deliveries which charge pallets calculate 0 total invoice cases and as such remain with the case carrier in the carrier planning screen when they should be based off of the total calculated invoice cases.

 

No

No

VDIST-1238

Create Delivery - Product line issue

Issue

2.5.0

When creating a delivery,on product line details tab it shows error upon a product entry.

 

No

No

VDIST-1207

Coordinate retrieval - delayed status update

Issue

2.3.4

Once a delivery is created from a VW order the status will be P while it waits to be picked (or added to a Bulk Pick) and for it to get the coordinates.

When the order is picked, and coordinates retrieved afterwards, users are kept waiting for the next scheduled execution of the VW > VD job for the status to be updated from P to O, even though it has already received the pick information.  This has been improved.

 

No

No

VDIST-1179

GeoLocation Restrictions - Route Plan

Issue

2.3.4

When adding a Disallowed vehicle Types on the Geolocation Restrictions - Route Planner is planning it for the transport Item that is that vehicle

VLIVE-220

No

No

VDIST-1143

Deliveries - invoice pallets calculation

Issue

2.3.3

The invoice pallets calculation is currently using the transport discount when the cases per pallet is sufficient.

EPOD-299
EPOD-298
EPDO-297
VW-4790
VEDI-830

No

No

VDIST-1235

External carrier customer service - tracking

Improvement

2.4.0

Introduction of delivery tracking for supported carriers in 'External carrier customer service'.

 

No

No

VDIST-1219

Transport BI dashboard

Improvement

2.3.0

Add a new view on the transport dashboard per delivery depot showing any deliveries flagged with special Handling codes on the day of delivery

RFC-679

No

No

VDIST-1172

Costings module - reporting

Improvement

2.3.4

Creation of the following two new reports, to complement the work done in other issues in this version related to costings.

 

No

No

VDIST-943

Map - Pickups

Improvement

2.1.0

Pickups / deliveries will be made more obvious from looking at the map, the marker will be different for each and in the tooltip shown when hovering the cursor over the marker it will also tell the user what type of delivery it's for.

VLIVE-254

No

No

VDIST-942

Delivery screen - Pickups

Improvement

2.1.0

A PD delivery will have separate delivery and pickup records, which are linked.  It's difficult to identify in this scenario which is a pickup and which is the delivery, so this will be made clear on the screen.

 

No

No

VDIST-906

Routing engine - Ability to specify operating times 

Improvement

2.1.0

During the integration of the routing engine with Vision Distribution the driver's "operating times" were missed and are now being added as optional fields

 

No

No

VDIST-858

Costings module - recording costs

Improvement

2.1.0

Utilise the allow single drops check box on the carrier setup.

When set the vehicle will require costs for each individual drop to be entered by the user.

If not set then the cost for the manifest needs to be inserted.

The boxes used on the planning forms should allow for this entry and ensure its integrity is maintained.  e.g. If you enter manifest price then we do not have drop prices or vice versa.

We will then modify the delivery costs when each drop is set with its own price to then work out a cost per case to allow this to be proportioned over all the product lines.

Where the price is per manifest it will continue to be divided equally by the invoice cases and apportioned per delivery and then down to the delivery line level.

VDIST-694
VDIST-860

No

No

VDIST-856

Carrier Improvements

Improvement

2.1.0

The following improvements are to be made to the carrier. 

#1 Insurance details can be held against the carrier instead of the vehicles, checking will look at the carrier, if not present will check the vehicle. and provide same message regarding insurance.  Additional fields will also be Approved and Approved Date (approved for haulage) which are just for reporting on BI Enquiry

#2 Specify the types of goods a carrier cannot have on their vehicles, these will be independent lists in VD which the users can manually setup and match to VW codes to also apply the checks to deliveries imported from VW.  This will be needed at carrier level only and similar to insurance will check carrier then vehicle.

Check boxes are needed as there may be multiple.

Also make this visible on the depot plan screen / carrier search result (F11 / F12)

#3 Add an information tab against the carrier, having three sections, 2 of which are same as the carrier item, the third will be carrier conditions, this will allow formatting using html and there will be a check box stating show conditions on carrier documents.   If this is ticked then print this on the bottom of the manifest and estimation/confirmation of job emails(paperwork)

#4 The ability to free type a delivery or collection will also need to ask at header level (not against delivery line level) which product types this delivery is for.

#5 BI Enquiry needed to provide details of carriers with this additional information shown, so insurance expiry dates and approval dates can be checked.

 

No

No

VDIST-746

All drivers shown 

Improvement

1.12.3

When selecting a driver for a specific haulier on a delivery using the navigation panel all drivers are shown instead of the selected haulier.

 

No

No

VDIST-694

Deliveries - additional charges

Improvement

2.2.0

Implementing the remaining functionality (from [VDIST-858]) for the costings module

This will be implemented in stages and will be part of the licensed module introduced in VDIST-860.

  • Manifest revenue report

  • Profitability report by order/manifest/haulier/customer

  • Record invoices against a manifest (see [VDIST-860])

  • Record additional charges against an order and charge to the customer

  • Authority of invoices which then post to the financial system

  • Self bill of hauliers for manifests

  • Back charge hauliers for losses with ability to post to financial system

 

No

Yes

VDIST-656

Delivery service level enhancements

Improvement

2.1.0

In [VEDI-364] a new segment was added in the xml order "Delivery Options", this is solely for the transport system and receive the fields shown on the wiki [https://visionsoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VEDI/Sales+Order+-+XML+Format|https://visionsoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VEDI/Sales+Order+-+XML+Format]

Here we will map the Delivery Service Level to a potential Delivery Charge (optional) or a uplift % on the existing costs.

Only accept Delivery Service Levels if they exist, if they do not then they are to be removed.

e.g. HOME would come into here and use the HOME charge band

24 would come in and use standard charging

SAT would come in and use standard charging with an uplift of say 50%

AM would come in and use standard charging with an uplift of say 20%

In addition the service level could over ride the default pick calculation - e.g. 48 means delivery within 2 working days of the current date, 24 means delivery next working day, SD means Same Day Delivery, SAT would force delivery on a Saturday even if the delivery day is non standard.

We have to be able to derive from this code

  • Pick date

  • Specific Delivery date

  • Charge band

  • Uplift of charge

This implements the calculations in VDIST so they're ready to be used for manual deliveries immediately, VW will be updated later in [https://visionsoftware.atlassian.net/browse/VW-5067|https://visionsoftware.atlassian.net/browse/VW-5067|smart-link] to also work with the new calculations,  in the meantime it'll continue to calculate pick / delivery dates as it did previously.

VEDI-406

No

No

VDIST-1120

Delivery notes - generated before pick confirmation

Design Change

2.3.3

If a manifest and it's delivery notes are generated by VDG for orders on a bulk pick, prior to pick confirmation, the delivery notes will incorrectly display the quantities as zero.

Important note: now the service will only print the manifest & delivery notes after pick confirmation.

VSUP-9717
VW-4371
VSUP-10575

No

No

VDIST-1094

Postcode lookup

Design Change

2.2.0.1

The postcode lookup address field population has been standardised across all Vision products, therefore all Vision apps will populate the address in the same way, which is centrally controlled from our online postcode service.

 

No

No

VDIST-979

Delivery - security pin

Design Change

2.1.5

The delivery PIN field accepted for incoming sales order files currently allows alphanumeric entries, this will be changed to allow numeric only.

VEDI-690
VCIS-1039

No

No

VDIST-1244

Navigation Search - Issues with search for a delivery 

Bug

2.4.0

There seems to be some issues with the navigation result search for a delivery if search on a specific doc ref or pick UID it returns the result all the time, but if search for some customer alone it doesn't return anything.

VSUP-14741

No

No

VDIST-1243

Manifest - not printing

Bug

2.4.0

A manifest is not showing to be printed when it had a delivery which was then removed from the manifest.

 

No

No

VDIST-1231

EPOD - Generation Failure

Bug

2.3.3

If a customer has a long domain ePODs are not generating when requested from VD

VSUP-14187

No

No

VDIST-1209

Delivery - DPAccountRef populating wrong

Bug

2.3.5

The DPAccountRef from VW is populating the wrong field, resulting in it being shortened from 30 > 6 characters

VSUP-13318

No

No

VDIST-1198

Delivery - saving without VL access

Bug

2.3.5

Cannot save changes to an existing delivery when Vision Live is down.

 

No

No

VDIST-1183

Delivery Lines - Disc/Surc % reverts to previous value when saving changes

Bug

2.3.3.1

When Editing a Delivery and amending the Discount / Surcharge field on the line to 0 and then saving it will revert it back to previous value and not save to 0.

VSUP-12648

No

No

 

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