Dispatch Truck Shipping Scenarios
Definitions
Every truck has three different plants that it is associated with:
- Home Plant
- The home-base plant for the truck. Each time Beginning of Day is run the Current Plant will be reset to this plant.
- Current Plant
- The plant that the truck is currently assigned to. The next load shipped will originate from this plant.
- Return Plant
- The plant that the truck will return to. The next load returned will return to this plant.
Borrowing a Truck
Scenario: Plant 1 is going to borrow a truck from Plant 2 for an extended period of time.
Procedure: Drag the truck from the Plant 2 available trucks list to the Plant 1 available trucks list. (This sets the truck's Current Plant to Plant 1.) The truck will now ship from and return to Plant 1. The next time Beginning of Day is run, the truck's Current Plant will be reset to it's Home Plant, which in this case is Plant 2.
Shipping from an Alternate Plant
Scenario: A truck is going to ship from Plant 2 an order from Plant 1.
Procedure: Drag the truck from the Plant 2 available trucks list to the Plant 1 order.
Shipping from Plant 1, Returning to Plant 2
Scenario: A truck that has shipped from Plant 1 is going to return to Plant 2.
Procedure: ??
Swapping Trucks during shipment
Scenario: A truck that has shipped has broken down. The load will be assigned to a different truck.
Procedure: ??