Adjusting crew assignments

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

  1. 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.
  2. In the graphical view, in the Crew Requirements table, expand the crew to view its requirements and assignments.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Save the crew list.


Feedback