Automatic assignment distribution - General Settings

The section of the General Settings refers to the Automatic assignment distribution and the slot planning.

The calculation of the distances and the travel times is done via the air lines. The setting "Correction to linear distance (in %) "sets the markup in percent, which is added to the air line distance. The default value is 20%.

Example: If the destination is 100 kilometers away and the correction is 20%, then a distance of 120 kilometers is used to calculate the travel time.

In the "Average speed (km/h)" setting, you can set the default average speed in km/h that will be used in the travel time calculation. The default value is 50 km/h.

Example: If the distance is 120 kilometers and the average speed is 50 km/h, the travel time is 2 hours and 24 minutes.

In the "Assignment distribution" section, you specify whether the capacity is to be corrected relatively. Then the working time of the respective resource is used and the value from the "Capacity correction (minutes)" setting is added to the working time of the resource.

Example: If the resource has a working time of 7 hours and 60 minutes have been specified in the capacity correction, then 8 hours will be planned in the assignment distribution.

If the option is inactive, the absolute capacity is taken into account. For the absolute capacity, the value from the "Capacity correction (minutes)" setting is taken for all resources.

Example: If the capacity correction (minutes) is 480, the assignment distribution is planned with a maximum of 8 hours. Thus, a 7-hour assignment could have approximately one hour for arrival and return journey. If the work or travel time were longer, then the assignment would last several days.

Under the item "Driving leg limit (min)" you specify the maximum travel time in minutes. An arrival or return journey cannot exceed this limit. Only the resources that meet the specified trip segment limit will be proposed for the assignment.

The following settings are exclusively for the slot planning!

The setting "Multi-day assignments. Minimal working duration (min)" specifies how much you have to work on one day until it is scheduled for several days.

Example: If you set 480 minutes, then if you work 480 minutes, the assignment will be scheduled for one day and if you work 481 minutes, it will be scheduled for two days. If you set 0 minutes, then the setting is inactive.

The setting "Multi-day assignments. Minimal duration total (min)" specifies from how many minutes of working time and travel time on a day the assignment will be scheduled for several days.

Example: If you select 600 minutes, then for a 480 minute work time, the arrival and return trips together may only be 120 minutes long without the assignment becoming multi-day. Everything above 600 minutes will then be considered several days. If you set 0 minutes, then the setting is inactive.

The setting "Multi-day assignments. Minimal duration first day (min)" specifies how much must be worked on the first day of the assignment to start the assignment on that day.

Example: If you set 120 minutes, then at least 120 minutes or more must be worked that day. If you set 0 minutes, then the option is inactive.

The setting "Multi-day assignments. Minimal duration last day (min)" specifies how much must be worked on the last day of the assignment in order to finish the assignment on that day.

Example: If you set 120 minutes, then at least 120 minutes or more must be worked that day. If you set 0 minutes, then the option is inactive.

The setting "Multi-day assignments. Optimize overnights" is intended to prevent additional overnights on an assignment if possible.

Example: If an assignment would be three days long today but only two days long tomorrow, then the shorter assignment, the two-day assignment, will be suggested.

The setting "Activate slot-search from now on" prevents planning in the past. For example, if it is just 8 o'clock, it will be planned from 8 o'clock.

The setting "Offset in minutes" specifies how much offset should be planned to the current time. If you enter 60 minutes and it is 8 o'clock, then planning will start at 9 o'clock.

The option "Minimal duration for part (min)" indicates how much work must be done to make two assignments from one assignment when dividing. If the assignment is shorter than specified in the option, the existing assignment is shortened instead of two assignments being made.

The setting "Planning over weekend from X hours" specifies from how many hours of working time may be worked on weekends. If the value is too low, no work is done on weekends in the assignment.