nuDeliverIt 8.8 Release Notes
- Automatic Vehicle Locator: Streamlined Interface & Performance Enhancements
- Introduction of Recurring Stops
- Route Guide Enhancement: Rule based Carrier Assignment of Stops
- Advance shipment Notice: Mark as Received Filter view
- Route Optimization: Automatically determine the Route Origin for Efficient Carrier/Driver Assignments
- Other Enhancements
Automatic Vehicle Locator: Streamlined Interface & Performance Enhancements
The new update to Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) has more refined user interface to ensure seamless experience and enhanced overall user performance.
Benefits
- Enhanced the ability to efficiently manage and monitor your fleet of vehicles and drivers
- A satellite view has been introduced alongside the existing default map, enabling you to visualize the locations of your drivers with enhanced clarity and real-world context.
- For easier identification of drivers, vehicle icons on the map now show driver initials, enabling swift recognition of drivers linked to vehicles.
Functionality
- Select from the available map views, including the default map view, as well as terrain or satellite view with labels. This choice allows you to precisely locate your drivers on the AVL.
- To enhance driver identification, vehicle icons on the map now display driver initials, making it easier to quickly recognize drivers associated with their respective vehicles.
- Employ distinct vehicle icons such as trailer trucks, straight trucks, or box trucks for individual routes, streamlining the process of identifying the vehicles utilized by drivers for each specific route on the map view.
- The newly introduced driver/vehicle list feature enables users to see a comprehensive list of drivers presented on the map, along with their current assignment statuses.
- Existing driver cards have been enhanced to include past route information. Gain insights into past routes executed by each driver, enabling you to analyze performance and make data-driven decisions.
Introduction of Recurring Stops
The new feature of Recurring stops empowers businesses to efficiently manage and automate their scheduling by allowing them to create stops with or without recurring schedules. With this feature now seamlessly generate stops on a daily and weekly options, all while preserving the details from your chosen stop.
Benefits
- The automated creation of recurring stops from schedule reduces manual data entry, freeing up valuable time for more strategic tasks and minimizes the risk of errors that can occur with manual data input.
- Templates will allow you to maintain consistency in stop details and instructions.
- With various recurrence options, you can tailor your scheduling to align with your operational needs.
- Easily manage and modify your schedule and templates using the Template Stops.
Functionality
- Create stop schedule and templates that encapsulate all the relevant details for a specific stop, such as location, duration, schedule, and more.
- Choose from a range of scheduling options, including daily or weekly recurrence.
- The stops will be generated based on the schedule with all the details taken from the original stop hence minimizing error and ensuring consistency and accuracy.
- Template Stops will allow you to access and modify the available templates and schedules, providing accessibility and flexibility for any changes in operational requirements.
Route Guide Enhancement: Rule based Carrier Assignment of Stops
With this significant update to our Route Guide feature, designed to elevate your logistics management capabilities. Stops that meet the specified criteria will be automatically assigned to defined carrier for seamless execution and delivery.
Benefits
- The automated carrier assignment streamlines the process of assigning stops to carriers, reducing manual intervention and optimizing workflow efficiency.
- The selection criteria ensure that stops are assigned to carriers that best align with their attributes, reducing errors and enhancing customer satisfaction.
- The automated process saves time by eliminating the need for manual assignment and allowing carriers to focus on executing their routes.
Functionality
- Dispatcher user can configure the route guide for automatic allocation of stops to a specific carrier by utilizing Assign To option available in guide type Stop.
Advance shipment Notice: Mark as Received Filter view
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This update provides you with improved visibility and control over your received items, allowing you to prioritize and manage pending shipments more effectively.
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With the addition of a new filter, you can now easily differentiate between received and pending received items, streamlining your inventory management process.
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Clear visibility into pending received items helps in proactive planning for inventory replenishment and order fulfilment.
Route Optimization: Automatically determine the Route Origin for Efficient Carrier/Driver Assignments
This feature empowers optimization to identify the optimal route origin during stop planning, minimizing driver travel time to the pickup location and enhancing efficiency.
Benefits
- The optimization feature dynamically selects the optimal route origin during stop planning, leading to more efficient routes overall.
- By eliminating the need for drivers to travel to a fixed origin point for pickup, unnecessary travel time is minimized.
- The feature helps save both time and fuel costs, as drivers start their routes closer to the first pickup point.
- With better-placed route origins, resources are utilized more effectively, contributing to improved operational efficiency.
Functionality
- Planners and dispatchers can take advantage of this feature by designating the initial pickup as the route origin in the profile and template settings.
Other Enhancements
- Any exception reason during the delivery process such as damaged product or customer refused delivery, etc. will be recorded as part of document signed by the consignee. The recorded exception reason details are automatically included on the document, providing a complete record of the delivery process.
- Addition of new setting for business partners which will allow businesses to delegate the authority to cancel routes or stops exclusively to designated business partners.
- Manage vehicle in Route Workbench will have an additional column as Fixed Cost for the particular vehicle type.
- nuDeliverIt portal users now can access Accessorial management from Stop profile.