Plan stop durations and anchor arrival times

With the advancedTiming platform feature you get two timing tools. Stop duration rules calculate how long a stop takes from what is loaded or unloaded there. An anchored arrival time fixes when the vehicle arrives at one stop, and Transportial plans the other stops around it.

How the duration of a stop is chosen

1. A duration entered on the action itself always wins.
2. Otherwise the first enabled stop duration rule whose conditions match the stop sets the duration.
3. Otherwise the default duration per action type and, if your platform uses it, the average handling time at the location are used.

When both a rule and enough location history are available, Rule versus location history decides: Rule wins (the default), Location history wins when available or Longest of rule and history.

Create a stop duration rule

1. Open Settings, click the Environment tab and open the Planning section.
2. Under Time windows and stop timing, go to Stop duration rules and click Add rule.
3. Enter a Rule name.
4. Limit where the rule applies with Action types (empty = all), Transport modes (empty = all) and Equipment types, comma separated (empty = all).
5. Optionally add Extra conditions, for example on customerName, locationName, pallets or kg.
6. Enter Base (minutes) and the minutes per unit you need: Minutes per pallet, Minutes per loading meter, Minutes per goods line, Minutes per kg, Minutes per m³ or Minutes per container.
7. Optionally set Minimum (minutes) and Maximum (minutes).
8. Use Up and Down to put the rules in order: the first matching rule wins. The switch next to a rule turns it off without removing it.
9. Click Save.

Which goods count as pallets or containers is set with Words counted as pallets (comma separated) and Words counted as containers (comma separated), matched against the equipment type or packaging. By default these are "pallet" and "container".

Anchor the arrival time of a stop

1. Open the planner.
2. Right-click the stop inside the trip bar.
3. Choose Anchor arrival time….
4. Pick the date and time the vehicle should arrive.
5. Click Save.

The stops before the anchored stop are planned backwards from that time, the stops after it forwards. The stop shows ⚓ and Anchored arrival with the time in the hover card and the strip. If the vehicle is expected later than the anchor by more than the hard window tolerance, the stop becomes Too late with the reason Anchor missed by … min. To undo it, right-click the stop and choose Remove anchor.