Adding New Orders to Routes

New orders may come into Descartes Route Planner and need to be added to existing Routes. Each new order is represented by Stops, and these new Stops appear in the Unassigned Stops quadrant.

Once the Stops for the order appear on the Unassigned Stops list, they can be managed like any other Unassigned Stop.

The process of assigning Unassigned Stops to Routes attempts to find the best Route for each Unassigned Stop being assigned. Users can use one of these options to handle Unassigned Stops:

·        auto-assign Stops

·        suggest assignments for Stops

·        to another schedule reassign Stops

Ü   Note&emdash; When users assign an order/stop to an empty route, the system will update the route’s Earliest Start Time to the user’s current time when the AllowResDateChangeOnAssign CtySysValue enabled. Routes are only updated if the route’s date is today and current time is within route’s time window. The current time is determined by client’s system time. For example, if a route is created at 06:00 and an order is not assigned to the route until 07:30, the route’s Earliest Start Time value will be updated to 07:30, the user’s system time.

See Creating a New Order for details.

Using the Suggest Order Functionality

Users can also instruct the system to suggest orders for a particular route on the Dashboard using the Suggest Order right-click option. This alternative method returns a list of compatible orders, allowing users to display the orders on the map and select an assignment from the returned list.

For more information on this feature, see the Suggesting Orders for Routes section.