Loads
One vehicle worth of freight. Utilization is the whole point: a trailer at sixty per cent is forty per cent of the freight bill spent carrying air.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Transportation
- Section: Load Building
- Screen: Loads
Address in the console: /scm/loads
List · 12 columns · 23 fields on its form · 1 of them required · 5 actions
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Load | Code | load_no |
| Type | Status | load_type |
| Vehicle | Text | vehicle_type_name |
| Carrier | Text | carrier_name |
| Departs | Date and time | planned_depart_at |
| Stops | Number | stop_count |
| Weight kg | Number | total_weight_kg |
| Weight % | Number | weight_utilization_pct |
| Floor % | Number | floor_utilization_pct |
| Not placed | Number | unplaced_items |
| Axle legal | Yes or no | is_axle_legal |
| Status | Status | status |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Text | ||
| Type required | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Vehicle type | Choice | Looked up from existing records | The deck the builder draws. A load with no vehicle type has no canvas to be arranged on. |
| Vehicle | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Driver | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Carrier | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Service | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Trailer number | Text | ||
| Seal number | Text | ||
| From | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| To | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Loaded at | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Door | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Planned departure | Date and time | ||
| Planned arrival | Date and time | ||
| Actual departure | Date and time | ||
| Actual arrival | Date and time | ||
| Distance (km) | Number | ||
| Planned cost | Number | ||
| Actual cost | Number | ||
| Currency | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Cost center | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Notes | Long text |
What you can do here
Build from deliveries primary
Start from real demand rather than an empty deck
Asks for: Deliveries* Vehicle type Loaded at Type Planned departure Name it
Plan
The deck, everything on it, and the warnings
Arrange primary
Fit what is on the load onto the deck
Asks for: May turn a pallet ninety degrees Gap between items (mm)
Rate it
Ask every tariff what this would cost
Asks for: Load Service level Mode
Tender
Raise the freight order the carrier is given
Asks for: Carrier Service Agreed cost Who pays
* required
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.