Delivery fleet scheduling, routes and proof of delivery

Elements

The pieces this function usually contains in a large organisation:

• Route planning
• Driver assignment
• POD with signature and photo
• Failed-delivery codes

Catalog items that already cover part of it

• Delivery proof (signature/photo) DLV-0020
• Dispatch assignment of orders to drivers CONN?-0043
• Assign job to driver LOGI-0165
• Assignment acceptance by driver LOGI-0170

Classification

Status

Present in catalog

Fit

Core candidate

Suggested module

LOGI: Simca Logistics (overlay on the CONN supply network): Load Board, Dispatch, Reputation

Suggested attributes

Lite and Pro; priority Standard; optional online action. Starting points only.

Cluster

Distribution, supply chain and wholesale

Public excerpts

S09, S23

Archetypes and companies

Foodservice and broadline wholesale distribution; Parcel, freight and shipping-store networks; Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution; Big-box, warehouse club and mass merchants; Utilities and energy suppliers.

Example companies in these archetypes: Sysco, US Foods, Performance Food Group, McLane, Core-Mark, C&S Wholesale, UPS, FedEx, XPO, Ryder, McKesson, Cardinal Health. These come from general knowledge unless a source code is shown on the archetype page; it is not a statement that each company runs every element, and it implies no relationship.

Closest industry pages

• Wholesale food and grocery
• Wholesale: diversified, building and industrial supplies
• Wholesale electronics, office and technology distribution
• Courier, parcel and postal services
• Trucking and freight forwarding
• Warehousing and third-party logistics
• Railroads, shipping and ports
• Health care wholesale and distribution
• Medical products, supplies and devices
• Pharmaceuticals and biotech

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Status is a hand review against catalog names and descriptions and can be wrong. See the method.