Routes
The drawn line and the plan behind it. Sequencing the stops is nearest-neighbour with time windows pulling a stop forward: crude, fast, and typically within a fifth of optimal on a delivery round.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Transportation
- Section: Transportation
- Screen: Routes
Address in the console: /scm/transport-routes
List · 11 columns · 21 fields on its form · 1 of them required · 1 action
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Route | Code | route_no |
| Name | Text | name |
| Type | Status | route_type |
| Date | Date | route_date |
| Load | Code | load_no |
| Vehicle | Code | vehicle_code |
| Driver | Text | driver_name |
| Stops | Number | stop_count |
| Distance km | Number | distance_km |
| Drawn | Yes or no | has_polyline |
| 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 required | Text | ||
| Type | Choice | delivery, collection, milk_run, shuttle, line_haul, backhaul, service | |
| Load | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Vehicle | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Driver | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Runs again | Yes or no | ||
| How often | Text | ||
| Date | Date | ||
| Planned start | Date and time | ||
| Planned end | Date and time | ||
| Actual start | Date and time | ||
| Actual end | Date and time | ||
| Distance (km) | Number | ||
| Driving minutes | Number | ||
| Minutes on site | Number | ||
| Sequenced by | Choice | none, shortest, fastest, least_cost, balanced, time_windows, manual | |
| Planned cost | Number | ||
| Actual cost | Number | ||
| Currency | Choice | Configuration list | |
| CO2 (kg) | Number | ||
| Notes | Long text |
What you can do here
Sequence the stops primary
Asks for confirmation: Re-order the stops on this route by proximity and time window?
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.