Company Settings - Shipments

The Shipments section allows you to predefine your shipments preferences based on your company policy, such as setting your starting shipment number, auditing shipments prior to billing, reverting shipment if your driver is in not available status. In case you create a shipment and assign it to your driver who is not available, and the drivers attendance in approved for an example a Time Off during that date range, the shipment will be reverted in order for you to assign it to another driver. You are also able to add past dates when creating stops, to require actual quantity, weight, BOL on stop checkout.

You can also preselect type of shipments you are creating from the planner, such as a TL or LTL shipments. 

And you can predefine your dispatch option to the driver as a Dispatch immediately or to Offer it. Which ever you select it will be a default option when dispatching a shipment. 

You can select which options when toggled on to be hidden from the shipment stop view and you can hide the shipment validation process when creating a shipment.

There is a possibility to predefine shipment stop options when creating a shipment, such as scheduled date type, equipment required and equipment action.

Commodity Types

Here you have a preloaded commodity types that are preloaded into the system.

You are able to add your own simply, by scrolling down and clicking on the +Add Commodity button, where you will enter your commodity type, description and to click on the blue checkmark button to save your commodity.

Delay Reason Codes

Delay Reason Codes allows you to setup a reason prior to shipment with your customers in case something is not as it should be.

You are also able to add your own delay reason codes simply by scrolling at the bottom of the page and clicking on the +Add Type button, where you will be prompted to add your delay reason and assign your custom code.

Offers

In this section you are setting up your predefined option when offering a shipment.

Dispatch

Dispatch section allows you to predefine your options from when dispatching a shipment to your driver. Meaning, the options you've set will be a default when dispatching to a driver.