Enter Delivery Route
Explanation
This activity is used to create a delivery/arrival route - there is no separate basic data for arrival routes.
This optional task is to be performed by a system administrator or an equivalent person.
Delivery route planning is a method to coordinate the delivery of goods to the receiver who order frequently and
a method to streamline incoming supplies from the sender. In customer orders, this functionality is only used for
customers who order parts regularly and/or frequently, but in quantities smaller than full truck loads. It would
only be useful if you have more than one customer with similar delivery requirements who are located close enough
to be serviced by the same delivery route.
In purchase orders, arrival route is used to control the incoming traffic of supplies. The arrivals of purchase
parts are scheduled to efficiently manage the receiving process of supplies.
Since shipment orders covers the whole process from sender to receiver, both delivery and arrival route can be
defined on the order.
It is also part of IFS transport planning, which includes load lists and consignments. Route planning allows you
to plan deliveries based upon routes, and to determine the last point in time that an order can be taken and still
be included in a specific delivery route. You can also link forwarding agents to the delivery routes if you use
them for transport purposes.
The route may be used for planning when creating a supplier schedule.
Prerequisites
- If you will be using a forwarding agent, basic information must be entered on the Forwarder page in
Application Base Setup/Enterprise.
- Although you do not connect customers to a route until after the route is established, you should have
information regarding the customers and their delivery needs before you specify the days in the delivery
route.
System Effects
- A route will be created, specifying route days, frequency, and order deadline lead time.
- The route can be connected as a default delivery route for the customer in the Customer page.
- Route can also be connected to applicable supply chain matrices. This route will appear as the default on
customer orders, purchase orders and shipment orders respectively.
- The route can be linked to individual customer orders, purchase orders and shipment orders.
- If a forwarding agent has been linked to the delivery route, this value will default whenever the route is
selected.
- The stop times are used when calculating the order delivery dates and times.
- The stop times are used by the system in calculating the latest order date and time.
- The receipt times for arrival are used to set the time for when goods arriving on the route will be available
in inventory. They are not used for delivery routes. For shipment order or distribution order the times are not
considered.
- The due times for delivery are used to set the time for when goods needs to be available in inventory in
order to be delivered on the route. For shipment order or distribution order the times are not considered.