After years of working on desktop applications and with radio scanners, DPD Poland decided to abandon its existing solution and replace it with mobile devices to improve the mobility of the system. The new approach was also intended to support the new line haul numbering introduced for other newly deployed systems.
Business challenges: Integrate with the logic provided by other suppliers, resolve problems arising from the branch infrastructure, achieve uninterrupted user interaction in the warehouse environment (adjust messages and sounds to the noise level in the warehouse)
Implementation results:
- Improved mobility aspect of the solution
- Increased the range of operations (covered places not yet accessible to desktop stations)
- Improved availability of information through on-line communication
- Better ergonomics through the use of wearable terminals
- More efficient package sorting process
PROCESS STEPS
- Weekly route schedule planning: The planning unit can set up a trip timetable for the next week
- Daily generation of links: The planning unit can set up daily links based on trip timetables
- Carrier’s portal: Dispatch of transport orders, notification of links (completion of the carrier’s link data)
- Entry: Functionality: trip lookup, tractor set selection, trip registration (vehicle and driver data, seal numbers)
- Docking: Functionality: trip lookup, trip registration (dock number, semitrailer, seal numbers, load percentage and form)
- Unloading: Functionality: trip lookup, trip registration (semitrailer, dock number)
- Loading: Functionality: trip lookup, trip registration (semitrailer, dock number)
- Clearance: Functionality: trip lookup, loading parameters (percentage and form), package registration, trip registration (semitrailer and driver data, dock number)
- Departure: Functionality: trip lookup, tractor set selection, trip registration (semitrailer, tractor, driver details, seal numbers)
- Communication with Limur: Transmission of link data, seal numbers, transport documents, driver’s name, semitrailer registration number
- Trip closure – specification for the settlement: Functionality: trip lookup, trip registration (semitrailer, dock number)
- Settlements with carriers: Functionality: trip lookup, trip registration (semitrailer, dock number)