To create a ship via to be used as a Fleet Maintenance truck ID:Before you can use Fleet Maintenance to schedule your regular warehouse deliveries, you need to perform the following setup procedures:
Identify the truck IDs for your routing to use. The truck ID is a ship via, set up in Ship Via Maintenance.
A ship via identifies how the material gets to your customers.
For example:
In Ship Via Maintenance, you create a ship via called Monday Regular and enable it for fleet routing.
Next in Customer Maintenance, you assign the ship via to deliver to branches 2, 3, and 5.
Then in Fleet Maintenance, you identify that the ship via stops at branches 2, 3, and 5 on Mondays.
Through this setup, you have identified how your warehouse delivers material to branches 2, 3, and 5.
In addition to identifying how material gets to your customers, ship vias define which orders the system places on a manifest – orders that are assigned to fleet routing ship vias on the Order Entry Status screen. You can use a specific ship via for a customer, as in the example above, or you can create a generic ship via. Using a generic ship via simplifies the order entry personnel's task. They simply assign the generic ship via to each order that needs to be placed on a manifest. The system then adds the order to an open manifest using a fleet routing ship via.
For example:
Create the generic ship via Routing and enable it for fleet routing.
In Customer Maintenance, assign branch 2 the Routing ship via.
When order entry personnel enters an order for branch 2 that needs to be placed on a fleet routing manifest, they can simply assign the Routing ship via to the order on the Order Entry status screen.
When the order is released, the system knows to place the order on a fleet routing manifest since it is assigned Routing as the ship via.
To create a ship via to be used as a Fleet Maintenance truck ID:
From the Files menu, select Ship Via to display the Ship Via Maintenance screen.
In the ShipVia field, type new and press Enter.
Enter the information in the fields to identify the Ship Via you are creating.
Use the Associate Vehicle hot key if you want to assign a specific vehicle to the ship via.
At the Equipment ID prompt, enter the vehicle that is associated with this ship via, as needed.
To assign a ship via to a customer or branch:
From the Files menu, select Customer to display the Customer Maintenance screen.
In the Customer/New field, enter the customer or branch to whom you want to assign the ship via.
In the Dflt ShipVia field, enter the ship via to assign to the customer or branch.
Press Esc to assign the ship via and exit the screen.
Before using Fleet Maintenance, enable fleet routing for all delivery branches by identifying the ship vias that are used in fleet routing.
To enable fleet routing for a delivery branch:
From the Files > Branch menu, select Branch to display the Branch Maintenance screen.
In the Branch ID/New field, enter the branch ID for which you want to use fleet routing.
Use the Ship Via hot key to display the Ship Via Branch Overrides/Auto Scheduling screen.
Note: If needed, add the ship via to the branch.
Select the ship via to use in fleet routing.
Use the Addl hot key to display Branch Shipvia Additional Data screen.
In the Staging Location field, enter the location where the ship via is normally staged.
In the Hold RF Picking until Released field, enter Y to hold all of the ship via's picks from RF manifest picking until they are manually released from the Shipping Manifest Queue.
In the Use in Fleet Routing field, enter Y to enable the ship via for fleet routing.
Press Esc to save the change and exit the screen.
Press Esc to exit Branch Maintenance.
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