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Release notes - Feb 2022

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Written by Yannick De Coster
Updated over 3 years ago

🚀 New features

Flex planning

  • This jazzy feature allows you to book slots that have a specific duration. Everyone’s busy and this buys you extra time in your day.

  • Why? This is where time-saving really begins. When a delivery arrives with only one pallet, you obviously don't want to reserve as much time as you would for a full truck load. Unless you want to empty the truck and host a killer underground party inside. (Don’t give Flo any ideas: she’s a party animal).

  • How? When a slot duration comes in with the transport order (via integration) or when you manually book a slot in our tool and put in a slot duration, we'll search for available times, regardless of the pre-defined slots your template gives you.

  • Configure your own setup: If you don't want to allow flex templates on all your docks Flo’s totally down with that. To each their own, man. That's why we allow you to enable/disable this setting in your facility and section settings.

  • Execution of flex slots: We know your warehouse schedule doesn't always go as planned. (Whose does!?) That's why we let you switch and reschedule your flex slots when a carrier arrives early or late. The only catch is that you can only switch a slot if what’s available matches the slot duration. (Ask Flo: It’s a glass slipper thing.)

Standalone Slot Booking

  • Configure your dock/section settings

  • Internal users can add a slot duration when booking

  • View slot duration on the flyover, slot detail page

  • Switch/reschedule slots with a slot duration

  • Update slot duration

  • Error message appears when slot duration doesn't fit the schedule and/or reschedule

Slot Booking integrated with an ERP/TMS

  • Configure your dock/section settings

  • Create transport orders (TOs) with a specific slot duration

  • Switch/reschedule slots with a specific slot duration

  • Update slot duration on the TO

  • Cancel slot if the new slot duration doesn't fit the schedule

🌟 Feature improvements

Manage your exceptions in your unplanned order grid

Note: This feature is created for integrated Slot Booking clients (integrated with an ERP/TMS)

Everyone manages their expectations, but it’s how they manage their exceptions that really tell you about a person. We've created a new page, that you can access via your navigation bar. In here, you'll find all the transport orders that still require a booking. This list (Flo thinks of it as her social register), you don't have to search for them on your own, we will show you everything that requires your attention.

In this list, you can search, filter, sort and add work views (configure your own view and save it).

Manual work is so 2021

Note: This feature is created for integrated Slot Booking clients (integrated with an ERP/TMS)

Flo automated some flows for you:

  • When a carrier in the transport order is unassigned, the slot will automatically be cancelled

  • When a carrier is reassigned in the transport order, Flo will check the booking rules and do the following:

    • For an automated/internal booking flow -> reassign slot to the new carrier

    • For a carrier booking flow -> cancel slot, the new carrier can book a slot

Small improvements

Flo has been making quite a few small changes lately. We’re not sure what’s brought about the shift, but we think it’s got something to do with a New Year’s resolution she made to become more organized. Here’s a look at what she’s been up to. Oh, and don’t forget to compliment her on her new hair when you see her.

  • Up until now, a slot status changed to 'Completed' when it was 24 hours past the departure schedule. But this meant you couldn’t make any changes to the slot anymore (cancel, reschedule, update milestones,...), so Flo has increased this timeframe to 7 days.

  • You can now input some extra actions to your slot via the list view.

  • Flo has added page numbers; filter, search and sort functionalities on all tables

  • Dropdowns are now in alphabetical order

  • More user guidance:

    • links to documentation on the following pages

      • Templates, list view, schedule view, create/invite carrier

    • more info messages on top of the settings pages

    • slot duration in the booking wizard

    • No available slots -> link to documentation

  • Flo is everywhere now. She’s basically God.

🔧 Bug fixes

Yeah!! We didn't need to fix any bugs in this version!

⚙️ Behind the scene (aka technical improvements)

  • We've updated Angular 8 to Angular 9.

  • We did some improvements on Ably.

  • User pilot is the new Gainsight

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