Building a Fleet Maintenance Schedule

Use fleet maintenance schedules to determine when your trucks deliver products. You can build fleet maintenance schedules on a weekly basis, which then populates all monthly schedules. You can also view and edit monthly schedules, as needed.

To build a fleet maintenance weekly schedule:

  1. From the Warehouse Management > Warehouse Maintenance > Fleet Maintenance menu, select Fleet Weekly Maintenance to display Fleet Weekly Maint screen.

Note: If prompted, log on to the character-based system.

  1. In the Br field, enter the branch for which you are creating a schedule.

  2. For each Day of Week field, enter the daily schedule ID to assign to it in the Schedule field.

Use the Down Arrow key to move the cursor to the field you want.

  1. Press Esc to save changes and exit the screen.

The system populates the fleet schedule for all future weeks with this information.

To view and edit a fleet maintenance monthly schedule:

  1. From the Warehouse Management > Warehouse Maintenance > Fleet Maintenance menu, select Fleet Monthly Maintenance to display the Fleet Schedule screen.

Note: If prompted, log on to the character-based system.

  1. In the Br field, enter the branch for which you are entering the schedule.

  1. In each day field, do one of the following to edit the schedule:

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The schedule ID assigned to a day,

Place the cursor on the day and enter a new schedule ID. The system modifies the schedule for the current day only.

A daily schedule ID for all days to which it is assigned,

Place the cursor on the schedule ID and use the Edit hot key.

The Fleet Schedule Maintenance screen displays for the schedule ID. Edit the schedule, as needed. The system updates the schedule for all days to which this ID is assigned.

A daily schedule ID for only one day to which it is assigned,

Place the cursor on the schedule ID and use the Modify hot key.

The Fleet Schedule Maintenance screen displays. Edit each line item, as needed. The system updates the schedule for the one day only and displays *Modified* for that day on the Fleet Schedule screen.

A schedule by deleting it from one day only,

Place the cursor on the day that you want to delete its schedule and use the Delete hot key. The system deletes the schedule from that day only.

  1. Press Esc to save changes and exit the screen.

More Options from the Fleet Schedule screen

The Fleet Schedule screen also offers these options for working with a fleet maintenance monthly schedule.

Hot Key

Description

Weekly Defaults

Displays the Fleet Weekly Maint screen in view-only mode for the week on which the cursor is positioned.

View

Displays the Fleet Schedule Maintenance screen in view-only mode for the schedule ID on which the cursor is placed.

Go to Today

Use to move the cursor to the current date's schedule.

See Also:

Tasks Not Available in Solar

Creating Defaults for Fleet Schedules

Fleet Maintenance Overview