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So suppliers can book a time with your facility, and they can enter details about the delivery, e.g truck type, number of pallets, number of lifts? Does the sof

by bash-j 7y ago

So suppliers can book a time with your facility, and they can enter details about the delivery, e.g truck type, number of pallets, number of lifts? Does the software limit them to particular docks that are compatible with their truck, e.g side unload with a forklift vs rear unload with a pallet rider? Does it take into account resource availability as well as dock availability, e.g a double trailer still takes one dock but can take much longer to unload? Also a warehouse might be limited to how much work per hour they can process during certain times of the day, e.g morning vs afternoon and during lunch breaks or shift changes.

adenta 7y ago
> So suppliers can book a time with your facility, and they can enter details about the delivery, e.g truck type, number of pallets, number of lifts? Correct! > Does the software limit them to particular docks that are compatible with their truck, e.g side unload with a forklift vs rear unload with a pallet rider? This would work. A 'dock' in Terusama has a type. Right now, everyone on our platform fits nice and neatly into 'van', and 'flatbed'. When assigning docks, we take into account what type of dock the appointment needs, and which docks are available to service that appointment. > Does it take into account resource availability as well as dock availability, e.g a double trailer still takes one dock but can take much longer to unload? This problem is the worst, and I don't have quite a good solution in mind yet. Right now we have the concept of, 'appointment types', and an appointment type can have a slot count. So, you could have a, 'double-wide' appointment-type, which would take up two slots on your schedule. So if your standard appointment is an hour, double-wide appointments would take two hours. This gets messy when the warehouse wants longer appointments based on who the customer is, or who scheduled the load. I want to build some sort of rules engine, but can't justify the complexity just yet. > Also a warehouse might be limited to how much work per hour they can process during certain times of the day, e.g morning vs afternoon and during lunch breaks or shift changes. We handle this! Will build it more out in the future, but I just allow you to block off docks for certain times of the day. So a lunch break, would just be blocking off every dock at a certain time of day, and setting that block to repeat, daily.
- bash-j 7y ago
  Sounds like you are off to a good start! Another tricky problem I thought of would be a double trailer that can be side loaded would take a single dock, but a double trailer that has to be rear unloaded would take two docks. Also zoning docks so a refrigerated truck can't dock at a dry goods dock, or customers may want to make sure certain suppliers use the dock closest to where they need the goods. As in you wouldn't want to unload the truck and then have to move the pallets hundreds of metres to the storage location.

by bash-j 7y ago

adenta 7y ago

> So suppliers can book a time with your facility, and they can enter details about the delivery, e.g truck type, number of pallets, number of lifts? Correct! > Does the software limit them to particular docks that are compatible with their truck, e.g side unload with a forklift vs rear unload with a pallet rider? This would work. A 'dock' in Terusama has a type. Right now, everyone on our platform fits nice and neatly into 'van', and 'flatbed'. When assigning docks, we take into account what type of dock the appointment needs, and which docks are available to service that appointment. > Does it take into account resource availability as well as dock availability, e.g a double trailer still takes one dock but can take much longer to unload? This problem is the worst, and I don't have quite a good solution in mind yet. Right now we have the concept of, 'appointment types', and an appointment type can have a slot count. So, you could have a, 'double-wide' appointment-type, which would take up two slots on your schedule. So if your standard appointment is an hour, double-wide appointments would take two hours. This gets messy when the warehouse wants longer appointments based on who the customer is, or who scheduled the load. I want to build some sort of rules engine, but can't justify the complexity just yet. > Also a warehouse might be limited to how much work per hour they can process during certain times of the day, e.g morning vs afternoon and during lunch breaks or shift changes. We handle this! Will build it more out in the future, but I just allow you to block off docks for certain times of the day. So a lunch break, would just be blocking off every dock at a certain time of day, and setting that block to repeat, daily.

bash-j 7y ago
Sounds like you are off to a good start! Another tricky problem I thought of would be a double trailer that can be side loaded would take a single dock, but a double trailer that has to be rear unloaded would take two docks. Also zoning docks so a refrigerated truck can't dock at a dry goods dock, or customers may want to make sure certain suppliers use the dock closest to where they need the goods. As in you wouldn't want to unload the truck and then have to move the pallets hundreds of metres to the storage location.