The Planned Effort and Percentage Complete grid produces a  percentage complete report for the purpose of measuring customer or hauler (in combination or separately) pre-entry confirmed booking quantities in the hour they were scheduled to enter the profit centre. In other words if the client books it should they own it? The objective of this reporting grid is to deliver a unique opportunity for profit centres to quantify a Customers and/or Haulers forward order. A Customer can and will typically offer the profit centre a heads up or phone call "I would like to order   ......something," with information varying from just an order number; to an order number with tonnage or quantity products and destination but how often is the clients request (forward order,) fully honored? Are customers walking the walk or is it just talk?

 

Where profit centres have limited resources and they all do; Pre-Entry forecasting works for production planning; Pre-Entry scheduling works for logistics or transport planning and its profit centre customers that provide foresight; (forward order, job information) that works in determining a profit centres ability to predict what will happen or be needed in the future. The Planned Effort grid is designed to answer the hard questions of whether a profit centres foresight is reliable and trust worthy on not? And at a per customer and/or hauler, (transport provider) level.

 

 

 

Planned Effort - Is the result of scheduling as confirmed a pre-entry transactions.

Completed Effort - Is the result of vehicles entering the profit centre (users processing the pre-entry transaction to being saved onsite) within the hour it was scheduled.

Percentage Complete - Is the result of dividing the Completed Effort by the Planned Effort and multiplying by 100.

 

 

Profit Centre Working Hours	Planned Effort: Pre-Entry Scheduled & Confirmed	Completed Effort: Pre-Entry saved Onsite	Percentage Complete
Hourly Block  1	80 Transactions	72 Transactions	90%
Hourly Block 2	20 Transactions	18 Transactions	90%
Hourly Block  3	40 Transactions	20 Transactions	50%
Hourly Block 4	20 Transactions	8 Transactions	40%
Total	160 Transactions	116 Transactions	74%

 

Planned Effort does not decrease (with pre-entry delete) because once a pre-entry transaction is confirmed the logistics schedule is considered as definitive for the hour the pre-entry transaction was scheduled. The Hourly Block is determined by Start Minutes Past the Hour with Load Out Start Time combinations set within Tools Menu; Options, Movement Counts tab used to determine the 60 minutes or 1 hour block range for processing Pre-Entry to being Onsite.

 

Hourly blocks are always represented in 60 minute intervals for easy user understanding however the measure is broken down into seconds and milliseconds in addition.

 

The hourly o'clock block begins from 6:00:00 a.m (with zero seconds) and ends at the 6:59:59 seconds interval. A pre-entry transaction scheduled and confirmed within the (6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.) o'clock interval; processed to being Onsite from 6:00:00 a.m. through to 6:59:59 a.m results in a 100% Completed Effort with processing at 7:00:00 a.m. resulting in a 0% Completed Effort. 

 

Hourly Block Range	Scheduled & Confirmed	Processed Onsite	Percentage Complete
6:30 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.	6:35 a.m.	6:45 a.m.	100%
6:30 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.	6:35 a.m.	6:29 a.m.	0%
6:30 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.	6:35 a.m.	7:01 a.m.	100%
6:30 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.	6:35 a.m.	7:31 a.m.	0%
7:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.	7:40 a.m.	8:10 a.m.	100%
7:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.	7:40 a.m.	7:10 a.m.	0%
7:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.	7:40 a.m.	8:14 a.m.	100%
7:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.	7:40 a.m.	8:16 a.m.	0%

 

The hourly block interval can be filtered (by Customer and/or Hauler) and emailed directly from within the Pre-Entry Planner to transport, logistics managers on confirmed (or tentative) pre-entry transaction scheduling. The emailed report includes the profit centres (optionally resource consent determined) pre-entry transaction hourly block. Based on a simple o'clock hourly block interval; out sourced logistics managers, can plan for:

 

Pre-Entry Rescheduling or Second Chance Options.

Newly scheduled and rescheduling of confirmed pre-entry transactions will add counts to the applicable hourly block of the Planned Effort grid. Based on the o'clock hourly block interval a newly scheduled pre-entry transaction for i.e. 10:30 a.m. adds a count to the 10:00 - 11:00 a.m hourly block. If this same pre-entry transaction is rescheduled to i.e. 11:30 a.m another count (for the same transaction) is added to the Planned Effort count for the 11:00 - 12:00 p.m hourly block interval.

 

The reason for rescheduling a confirmed pre-entry transaction could be due to vehicle breakdowns or unforeseen traffic delays. With communication from the vehicle driver or fleet manager (and/or internal acknowledgment of the unforeseen) profit centre operators have an ability to assist (on the Customers or Haulers behalf) a 50% Completed Effort threshold (achieved on drag and drop).

The Planned Effort grid offering the second chance or 50% complete option will only ever count and report a maximum of two planned effort counts per pre-entry transaction; being that of the original and last rescheduled time stamps.