Allocating and Assigning a Job

When a job has all the information filled in it is ready to be allocated to a fleet, this can be either your own fleet or another users fleet. There are a number of ways in which a job can be allocated which will be explained below, all of these start off by opening the saved job and using the actions box at the bottom of the page. A job which has all the information saved in it but hasn't been progressed any further will be found at 'logistics' - 'quotes' - 'quoted jobs'. 

Seen above is the actions box with all the available options to a 'quoted job'.

Allocating a Job

To allocate this to your own fleet select 'pool/allocate' and select your fleet out of the list. The job will now be situated in 'logistics' - 'my jobs' - 'open jobs'. To progress further from here see assigning a job at the bottom of the page. If you wish to allocate the job to another fleet there are a few options you can take.

• A job can be allocated directly to another fleet, if already agreed, by selecting that fleet out of the dropdown list when clicking 'pool/allocate'. If the desired fleet does not appear in this list see 'networks'.
• A job can be advertised to a closed network of trusted suppliers at a fixed price and when taken you will be notified via email and an alert on the system. To do this select the desired network from the list in 'pool/allocate', again for information on this see 'networks'
• A job can be advertised to all CDN fleets at a fixed price using the 'pool' feature. This works in the same way as a network but the job is advertised to all fleets on the CDN who have the relevant capabilities i.e driven/transported/multi. You will again be notified if this job is taken.
• A job can be put out without a preset price and be bid on by other trusted suppliers by selecting 'request trade bids'. You will recieve a notification each time a supplier places a bid on your movement and can select the price and transporter you wish to allocate the movement to..

Assigning a Job

(Note - if a job has not been allocated to a fleet you will NOT be able to assign it to a driver until it has been allocated to one)

Once a job has been allocated to your own fleet you will need to assign the movement to a driver. There are two types of 'drivers' you can have set up on the CDN, either as an email workforce or a mobile workforce. Email workforce is for drivers who do not use a handheld, if a job is assigned to a driver without a handheld they will recieve the job details via email and the updating of the movement must be done manually. For more on updating jobs manually see updating and tracking a job. For a mobile workforce driver when the job is assigned it will be sent to their handheld device with all the jobs details. To see how to track the progress of a job done on handheld see updating and tracking a job.

To assign a driver to the job you will need to open up the job, which should be located under 'logistics' - 'my jobs' - 'open jobs'. Under the dates and prices the journey field will appear as below. To assign a driver to a job click send and select the desired driver from the list. If the driver is only email workforce there will be a (*) next to their name. Once selected click send and the details will be sent through to the driver. If you wish you can select 'send later' and a driver will be provisionally put next to the movement, the details will only be sent through when 'send now' is selected.To continue further from this stage see updating and tracking a job.