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In general, a distribution company may have one or more work points of its own.
Depending on its organization, a work point can both ensure sales activities and logistics
delivery. If the work point serves a significant number of clients and operates planned logistics
activities, these clients may differentiated according to areas of delivery.
An area of delivery represents the logical grouping of clients in order to establish a
supply route. The delivery area may serve one or more sales divisions, depending on the nature
and volume of sales.
One car is used in one area of delivery according to a visit plan. In defining a client, an
average time for preparing an order, can be set time being estimated based on historical data,
so that, when entering a new customer order into the system, the first possible delivery can be
automatically planned, as well as the delivery person and the car that will serve on the route at
that time. Later, you can adjust these plans, in case of overload or unavailable items (damaged
car, unavailable driver).
ERP Logistics: Planning deliveries / cars / drivers
This sub module takes information defined in the car fleet module and it uses it in the
process of planning the delivery of goods.
A car can ideally be active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so there is a need for detailed
planning of activities. Also, a car can have at least one driver per working hours or per delivery