Appointment (All)

An appointment is a defined pickup or delivery time that you can set for shipment legs or stops.

For shipment legs, you can set appointments for unassigned shipment legs, assigned (but unscheduled) shipment legs on a load, or shipment legs on a manifest.

For stops, you can set appointments for a single stop or stops on planned, scheduled, or manifest loads. You can also specify the same first stop appointment time for multiple loads.

Appointments that you set up for your loads, and that have a status of Planned or greater, can constrain the scheduling process in the following ways:

• The appointment time must not violate the pick up or drop off times at the shipment leg level.
• There can be no conflicting requirements for all shipment legs with appointments in Planned status or greater; otherwise, scheduling will fail.

  For example: If it is impossible to move from point A to point B in the time specified and keep the appointments at each stop, the system will display an error message and you must change the appointments.

• An error message is displayed if an appointment is outside of the hours of operation for any of the specified stop locations, unless you select the Override Hours of Operation field.

Note: Appointments for Shipping Locations with Docks defined cannot be user maintained. These are automatically generated and maintained through Dock Commitments.A new Dock Commitment generates an Appointment for the associated Stop. Any update to a Dock Commitment is automatically reflected in the corresponding Stop Appointment.