Loading and Unloading Gates

Every facility has its loading and unloading gates that arriving/departing trucks visit. The process of loading/unloading occupies certain time, which results in time delay that needs to be considered in a supply chain. Use this table to simulate the actual delay by creating the required number of loading/unloading gates at the required facility of your supply chain.

It is obligatory to specify the type of the vehicle that is used to transfer products, since no order will dispatch on its own through the gates.

Column	Description
Name	Name of the gate. Specify a meaningful name here.
Facility	Defines the site that the loading/unloading gates belong to. It can be of a DC, Factory, Supplier or Customer type. The cell contains a drop-down list with the available facilities.
Type	Defines the type of the gate the specified in the Facility column site/customer has: Loading gate — processes the departing trucks (loads the truck with the required orders) Unloading gate — processes the arriving trucks (unloads the truck) Multifunctional gate — may load/unload trucks
Vehicle Type	Specify the type of vehicles. The specified vehicle type's characteristics will affect the processing time.
Number of Gates	Specifies the quantity of the loading/unloading areas at the specified in the Facility column site/customer.
Units	Defines the unit that requires the specified Processing Time to be processed: The list of available units comprises the units defined in both the Manage units dialog and the Units table. pcs — one product unit m³ — one cubic meter kg — one kilogram of a product Order — one order Shipment — one shipment. A shipment is an entity containing more than one order. This might be in case of an FTL policy or a Milk run. Vehicle — vehicle type
Processing Time	Specifies the time required to process the unit of measurement specified in the Units column. The value can be either fixed or stochastic (defined by a probability distribution). For details on providing fixed or stochastic value refer to this section.
Time Unit	Specify the time unit that the Processing Time is expressed in. The list of available units comprises the units defined in the Manage units dialog.

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