Regardless
of how cartons are processed in the shipping system (via automated or
manual means), these cartons have to be accurately loaded into their
appropriate trailers. To ensure the right trailers arrive at the right
dock doors to match shipping and receiving priorities as well as
available labor and equipment, appointments must be properly scheduled
with all carriers. To allow shipping supervisors to manage their docks
to this end, ScanData supports the following:
Location Manager
Trailer Manager
Shipment Planning
Manager
Material Handling
Client
CONFIGURATION AND PLANNING
With Trailer Manager, shipping
supervisors can systematically prepare the distribution center for the
inbound and outbound trailers needed for that day by setting up virtual
trailers representative of the physical trailers necessary for the day’s
shipping. In addition, during
trailer
setup, administrators also can place controls and restrictions on valid
loading levels by setting the carton count, weight, and cubing allowed
during loading. Using this process, supervisors don’t have to constantly
monitor the volumes of cartons being loaded to several trailers; they
can let the system automatically check for them. Further, in conjunction
with Location Manager (which allows virtual staging and shipping dock
locations to be created and managed so they can be used in staging and
loading logic), Trailer Manager can assign and un-assign trailers to
doors or staging areas. Additional features of Trailer Manager include:
Monitoring transfer and
divert counts
Setting dock in and out dates
and times
Managing stop offs
Managing planned shipment
dates
PROCESSING
More complex solutions require that
some or all cartons be palletized for load management. To provide this
functionality, ScanData deploys its Material Handling Client
application, which is deployed as either a desktop application that
works in conjunction with a mobile, hand-held processing device or as a
self-contained PocketPC application. All Material Handling
Client
deployments give dock personnel more robust and mobile carton and pallet
processing capabilities such as:
Regardless
of how cartons are processed in the shipping system (via automated or
manual means), these cartons have to be accurately loaded into their
appropriate trailers. To ensure the right trailers arrive at the right
dock doors to match shipping and receiving priorities as well as
available labor and equipment, appointments must be properly scheduled
with all carriers. To allow shipping supervisors to manage their docks
to this end, ScanData supports the following: 
trailer
setup, administrators also can place controls and restrictions on valid
loading levels by setting the carton count, weight, and cubing allowed
during loading. Using this process, supervisors don’t have to constantly
monitor the volumes of cartons being loaded to several trailers; they
can let the system automatically check for them. Further, in conjunction
with Location Manager (which allows virtual staging and shipping dock
locations to be created and managed so they can be used in staging and
loading logic), Trailer Manager can assign and un-assign trailers to
doors or staging areas. Additional features of Trailer Manager include:
Client
deployments give dock personnel more robust and mobile carton and pallet
processing capabilities such as: