We are struggling with scheduling and routing sales orders that are shipped on our own delivery trucks. For most of our sales orders the customer does not define a delivery date, we group deliveries based on location and the weight the truck can carry. My goal is to delivery all orders within 10 business days of order entry.
However I get to choose when the order gets delivered. My initial thought was to leave the Requested On date empty as a visual queue that the order needed to be manually scheduled by distribution, but I can’t record a SO without entering that date. We wrote an automation that defaults that date to 2 weeks out, but that’s still not giving my distribution department a quick way of seeing what orders are new and need to be scheduled.
I need a solution that will allow me to visualize new SO’s that need to be correctly scheduled and visualization of the scheduled and unscheduled delivery locations so that if I already have a truck going somewhere, I can add more stops to that truck.
I have production, distribution and service departments. The service department runs well using the field service module.
Any thoughts on doing this with Acumatica, or anyone have experience with third parties applications that might bolt-on to do this?
