As a dispatcher, you often must adjust the daily assignments
of your crews based on changes in the availability of your resources.
For example, if a driver is sick, you must assign a new driver to
that crew for that day. You can perform this daily shuffle by using
the graphical view of the Graphical Crew Management application.
About this task
In the Resource table and Resource chart, you can assign
labor and assets to crews for any single day. The Resource table and
chart are located in the graphical view.
Procedure
- In the Graphical Crew Management application, display the
crew list whose assignments you want to adjust. Enter the start date
that you want to assign crew requirements on. If you do not enter
a date, the graphical view shows today’s date.
- In the graphical view, in the Crew Requirements table,
expand the crew to view its requirements and assignments.
- In the Resource chart, select the requirement that you
want to assign. An orange bar represents a crew with outstanding requirements.
Drag the requirement to the resource that you want to assign it to,
or right-click in the Resource table and choose Create
Assignment. You cannot assign the same labor
resource or tool to two crews at the same time.
- When the requirement is assigned, you can split the assignment
into two segments and assign each segment to a different resource.
Right-click on the requirement in the Resource chart and choose Split
Work.
- Crews with assigned labor and assets that do not meet all
requirements or qualifications for the crew are yellow. Reassign requirements
as necessary. Drag the requirement to the appropriate resource. When
all requirements are met and qualifications are satisfied, the bar
is green.
- To reassign resources for multiple days, right-click on the
crew name in the Crew Requirements table and select Adjust
Crew Assignments.
- Save the crew list.