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DOCK SCHEDULING

Dock scheduling is a collaborative scheduling tool that enables the warehouse and carriers to optimally manage dock appointments. The ultimate goals are to achieve a more balanced workload over the day and reduce congestion.

In the Dock Scheduling functionality, a dock calendar is maintained, showing all available time slots. Since docks and the spaces around them are often a bottleneck in logistics, efficient operations depend on the coordination of these spaces.

The CORAX Dock Scheduling module places all puzzle pieces in the right place: time slots for your carriers, your employees, your equipment and more. Thanks to this software you always have an overview and you keep control of the operation, even when things get hectic. With CORAX Dock Scheduling you prevent or in the worst case minimize the waiting time for the carriers. That’s what we go for: 0 waiting time for carriers.

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DOCK SCHEDULING? HOW DOES IT WORK?

CORAX Dockplanning is a very rich module which includes a lot of the functionality of a Transport Management System (TMS) in the WMS. In this module a time slot of 1 hour can be booked for:

A generally available slot
A slot reserved for a specific carrier

Carriers as well as warehouse planners are able to propose a new time if the planning changes. This makes the system very interactive and eliminates the need for alternative email and phone communication.

The Dock Scheduling is linked with the Trips module, so that a carrier can log in to CORAX and verify him/herself the availability of the time slots. The planner can book a time well ahead and when the driver arrives the goods to be shipped are ready in the dispatch lane to be loaded and transported.

In this way the carrier can service its end customers in the best way they can: the delivery times of the end customer are leading. The carrier can anticipate in order to deliver the best quality possible.

Trips reservations view of the warehouse planner. Here he can approve and reject trip requests or send a time change proposal.
Slot reservations view of the warehouse planner. Here he can configure the available slots.
The slot reservations view of the carrier. In this screen, time slots can be requested from the warehouse.

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FAQ – Dock Scheduling

What Is the Dock Portal?

The dock portal is a functionality in the CORAX system that allows you to edit your time slots and map them to the carriers of your choosing. It is one more way that the WMS helps to ensure a smooth process flow for your stock, which goes beyond providing you a place to hold your items. The more that is taken care of on this end, the more you can focus on other functional areas.

Once you have established the activity times that suit you, you can refer to them as you review your performance to see if any changes are necessary. As needed, you can adjust, until your carriers are coming and going in a manner that is satisfactory for your business needs.

Tighter control over your stock has never felt more like a reality. Once you set things up in the dock portal, you can rest assured that activities are going to consistently follow the timelines that you have established.

Do I Have to Manage Carrier Activity with the Dock Portal?

While the dock portal is intended to help you manage your various carriers by establishing a timetable, remember that the WMS revolves around the concept of convenience. Therefore, if you authorize it, you can set things up in such a way that you do not have to micromanage carrier activity. Again, you get more time for other activities.

To this end, all you need to do is allow your carriers to directly book their time slots as needed. This would be done by the provision of carrier-specific credentials that are conducive to that kind of functionality.

Apart from booking their slots (which must be within the parameters that you have established), they can directly link an order or a receipt to whichever activity they are carrying out. Therefore, from a reporting and auditing standpoint, you still get to have all the data you need on the various occurrences concerning your stock.

Can Carriers Access My Other Data?

These kinds of questions are normal, as whenever independent entities are accessing your data, you must have an assurance where their limits are concerned. One of the reasons that CORAX implements the use of carrier-specific credentials is to establish a line of role-based access control to your information.

While there is certain stock data that carriers need to execute their agenda, they do not need to have access to everything that you would. Therefore, the capabilities that their credentials afford them are intentionally limited. Beyond setting up timetables are making connections with orders and receipts, there is not much that your carriers are going to be able to do beyond that.

CORAX is very big on the security aspect of software design, and such grievous data leaks could never be allowed to occur. Your data is yours and it should only be viewable by those you authorize in the way you decided to authorize them.

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