Creating Transfer Truck Schedules

In a central warehousing scheme, use the Transfer Truck Schedule program to help you replenish child branches quickly and efficiently. By using the Transfer Truck Schedule, the Future Ledger program calculates how soon the parent branch can deliver an item to the child branch based on when it arrives at the parent branch.

For example, your parent branch has three child branches. The parent branch receives its weekly shipment from vendors on Monday mornings. It takes a day to receive all the items. Then the truck is loaded with the items for each child branch. It takes three hours to make it to each branch. Therefore, Branch 3 can plan on receiving weekly shipments on Wednesday afternoons.

To use the Transfer Truck Schedule:

From the System menu, select System Files.
Select Transfer Truck Schedule to display the Transfer Schedule screen.
In the From Branch and To Branch fields, enter the branches to which the schedule applies.
Use the Add hot key to display the Date Scheduler screen.
Define the schedule by entering the following information:
Enter a starting date and ending date for the transfer schedule.
Indicate which days of the week the truck makes a transfer by flagging the appropriate fields with an asterisk (*).
Indicate whether the schedule is daily, weekly, or bi-weekly by flagging the appropriate field with an asterisk (*).

Press Esc to return to the Transfer Schedule screen. The system prompts you to change a scheduled date when it coincides with a holiday. You can edit and add dates to the list. The scheduled dates are listed on the screen.

Note: Use the Clear hot key if you need to clear all dates on the Transfer Schedule screen.

Use the Start hot key to move the cursor to a date on the Transfer Schedule screen. The system prompts you for the date.
Press Esc to save the schedule.

Note: Repeat steps 3 - 6 to schedule trucks for other branches.