Fuel Dispatch
how to search

Fuel Dispatch

  • Introduction to Fuel Dispatch
    • Introduction to Fuel Dispatch
      • Understanding key terms and concepts
    • Entering orders
    • Logging in and out
    • Viewing system details
  • Fuel Dispatch directories
    • Topic directory for Fuel Dispatch
    • Video directory
    • Release notes
      • What’s New in 2024.7
      • 2024
        • 2024.6
        • 2024.5
        • 2024.4
        • 2024.3
        • 2024.2
        • 2024.1
      • 2023
        • 2023.6
        • 2023.5.1.1017 Service Pack
        • 2023.5
        • 2023.4.14.15 Service Pack
        • 2023.4
        • 2023.3
        • 2023.2
        • 2023.1.9.6 Service Pack
        • 2023.1
      • 2022
        • 2022.4.25.20 Service Pack
        • 2022.4
        • 2022.3
        • 2022.2.19.19 Service Pack
        • 2022.2
        • 2022.1
      • 2021
        • 2021.4.11.18 Service Pack
        • 2021.4.6.17 Service Pack
        • 2021.4
        • 2021.3
        • 2021.2
        • 2021.1
      • 2020
        • 2020.4 SP1
        • 2020.4
        • 2020.3 SP1
        • 2020.3
        • 2020.2 SP2
        • 2020.2 SP1
        • 2020.2
        • 2020.1 SP4
        • 2020.1 SP3
        • 2020.1 SP2
        • 2020.1 SP1
        • 2020.1
      • 2019
        • 2019.4 SP2
        • 2019.4 SP1
        • 2019.4
        • 2019.3 SP4
        • 2019.3 SP3
        • 2019.3 SP2
        • 2019.3 SP1
        • 2019.3
        • 2019.2 SP3
        • 2019.2 SP2
        • 2019.2 SP1
        • 2019.2
        • 2019.1 SP4
        • 2019.1 SP3
        • 2019.1 SP2
        • 2019.1 SP1
        • 2019.1
      • 2018
        • 2018.4
        • 2018.3
        • 2018.2
        • 2018.1
      • 2017
        • 2017.6
        • 2017.5
        • 2017.2
        • 2017.1
  • Navigation and data entry
    • Understanding basic window features
    • Choosing a window layout
    • Navigating within the application
    • Basic data entry
      • Using keyboard shortcuts
      • Accessing the mileage windows
  • Data grids
    • Using data grids
      • Filtering data in a grid
      • Working with columns
      • Grouping data in a grid
      • Exporting data
      • Printing data
      • Saving or deleting a data grid layout
  • General system setup
    • Setting default values in the order header
    • Enabling hazardous mileage lookups
    • Using record locking
    • Checking for commodity compatibility
    • Displaying stop-level information as ToolTips
    • Assigning primary and secondary trailers automatically
    • Fuel Order Import/Export Interface
    • Using Cisco Click to Call
    • Directory of other setup options
  • User profile setup
    • Setting up board security
    • Assigning a default terminal for a user
    • How board security affects retrieval of trips and drivers
  • Commodity and commodity class setup
    • Setting up commodity classes and commodities
      • Maintaining commodity data
        • Assigning colors to commodities
        • Identifying components of splash blends
        • Reviewing commodity density values
      • Commodity profile field definitions
  • Basic company profile setup
    • Entering company data
    • Company profile overview and field definitions
      • Information tab
      • Billing/Credit tab
      • Stop Info/Routing tab
      • Expirations tab
      • Notes tab
      • Contacts tab
      • Pictures tab
      • Documents tab
      • Load Requirements tab
    • Setting up parent and sub companies
    • Recording contact information
    • Maintaining notes
    • Setting up a company’s FuelQuest order transfers
  • Relationships setup
    • Establishing company or PIN code relationships
    • Setting the company relationship enforcement level
    • Managing company relationships
    • Temporarily overriding relationship enforcement levels
    • Managing PIN code relationships
    • Turning off auto-populating commodities
  • Profiles
    • Driver profile setup
      • Driver profiles
        • Driver Profiles window overview
          • Header information
          • Information tab
      • Creating driver profiles
  • Order entry
    • Introduction to order entry
    • Order entry setup
      • Limiting the Bill To company’s consignee list
    • Order entry basics
    • Changing the shipper or supplier on multiple orders
    • Copying orders
      • Creating a multi-order job
    • Assigning resources in the Call On Demand Order Entry Stop detail
    • Working with the Certificate of Analysis
    • Working with pay details
    • Tracking changes to orders
    • Recording service exceptions
    • Copying master orders
  • Load requirements
    • What are load requirements/preferences?
    • Setting up the system to use load requirements
      • Recording driver qualifications in the driver profile
      • Recording tractor accessories in the tractor profile
      • Recording trailer accessories in the trailer profile
      • Recording carrier qualifications in the carrier profile
    • Recording default load requirements
      • Recording load requirements for a company
      • Recording load requirements for a commodity
    • Recording load requirements for an order
    • Resolving load requirement conflicts when assigning resources
  • Reference numbers
    • Entering reference numbers
  • Notes
    • Entering and working with notes
  • Oil Field Order Entry
    • Oil Field Order Entry overview
    • Performing preliminary setup
    • Setting up tank profiles
    • Creating oil field orders
      • Viewing a lease’s order history
    • Using PeopleNet Crude Oil Workflow
    • Reviewing run ticket data on the Oil Field Readings tab
  • Consolidating orders
    • Consolidating orders overview
  • Dispatch views
    • Working with dispatch views
      • Temporarily modifying an order (trips)-based view
    • Creating and managing views
      • Creating and saving a new view
      • Modifying and saving an existing view
      • Deleting a view
  • Card Planner and Planning Worksheet layouts
    • Understanding dispatch board layouts
    • Setting up the Card Planner and Planning Worksheet
      • Viewing round trip times
      • Showing terminated drivers
      • Opening Call On Demand Order Entry or Oil Field Order Entry to view trip details
  • AutoPlan
    • AutoPlan Overview
  • Driver schedules
    • Introduction to scheduling drivers
    • Creating and maintaining schedule templates
    • Generating and managing driver schedules
  • Assigning resources and updating trips
    • Viewing trips and resources
    • Assigning resources to trips
      • Assigning a different tractor or trailer to a driver
    • Dispatching a trip
    • Starting or completing a trip
      • Using the Call On Demand Order Entry window
      • Understanding the Save Warnings window
    • Splitting a trip into segments
    • Using advanced sorting with forecasted orders
    • Switching the driver on a started trip
    • Resolving asset assignment conflicts
      • Load requirement conflicts
      • Expiration-related conflicts
      • Resolving incompatible commodities conflicts
    • Updating trip details
    • Preventing changes to orders in the Deadhead/Trip Editor window
  • Tracking stores in critical need of product
    • Dispatch Dashboard overview
    • Reviewing stores in critical need of product
  • Resolving cross-dump situations
    • Understanding the Cross Dump feature
  • On-Demand Forecasting
    • On-Demand Forecasting overview
  • Using Auto Complete for Dispatched orders
    • Understanding the Auto Complete Dispatched orders feature
  • Using optimization in Fuel Dispatch
    • Optimizing shifts
    • Reviewing optimization solutions
    • Working with infeasible loads and unplanned loads
  • Common dispatch features
    • Logging a driver in and out
    • Logging hours of service
    • Viewing driver calendars for a terminal
    • Recording/viewing observations about a driver
    • Viewing Asset Compartments in Card Planner and Planning Worksheet
    • Working with multi-order jobs
    • Viewing an asset’s assignment history
    • Determining point-to-point mileage
    • Changing the consignee on multiple orders
    • Viewing PeopleNet eDriver Logs entries
  • EDI
    • Processing Inbound 204s
  • Expirations
    • What are expirations?
      • Viewing expiration warning indicators
    • Setting up the system to use expirations
    • Working with expirations
    • Terminating resources and reactivating drivers
      • Accessing records for terminated resources
  • Trailer Autoloading
    • Trailer Autoloading overview
    • Using the Learned Autoloading method
    • Using the Auto-fill Autoloading method
    • Understanding autoloading error messages
  • Inventory Services (Fuel TMS)
    • Using Inventory Services features in Fuel Dispatch
    • Entering and editing tank readings
      • Entering readings in the Quick Reading Entry window
      • Entering readings in the Forecast Order Site Review window
    • Reviewing forecasted orders
    • Calculating sales from the prior day’s first reading
      • Reviewing tank readings in the Forecast Order Review window
    • Credit hold status feature
  • Inventory control
    • Introduction to Inventory Control
    • Viewing and recording tank readings
    • Forecasting delivery needs and creating orders
  • Retrieving records in scroll windows
    • Using scroll windows to look up records
    • General setup for scroll windows
      • Activating the enhanced version of scroll windows
      • Preventing users from exporting scroll data to Microsoft Excel
      • Setting up views for scroll windows
    • Branches
    • Carriers
    • Commodities
    • Companies
    • Drivers
    • Empty Moves
    • Orders
    • Pay To
    • Reference Numbers
    • Stops
    • Third Party
    • Tractors
    • Trailers
    • Truck Stops
  • Layout security for windows, grids, and menus
    • Using layouts to add security and control user actions
    • Changing menus and toolbars
    • Customizing menus
    • Customizing toolbars
    • Defining custom commands to add to a menu or toolbar
      • Understanding the Custom Menus window
      • Associating icons with custom commands
    • Saving and deleting menus and toolbars
    • Changing a window layout
      • Basing a new layout on the factory default
      • Adding and removing fields
      • Adding a hyperlink to a window
      • Applying security to fields
      • Changing a field’s look or position
      • Controlling the tabbing sequence
      • Customizing detail tabs
    • Saving, loading, and resetting a window layout
    • Copying layouts from one database to another
    • Changing a data grid layout
    • Applying conditional formatting
      • Examples of conditional formatting
        • Highlighting specific entries in a column
        • Color-coding dispatch statuses
    • Assigning window and grid layouts
  • Company Planner
    • Introduction to the Company Planner
      • Understanding the Company Planner Setup window
    • Planning a board
      • Choosing cell types
      • Understanding publisher events
      • Understanding subscriber action types
      • Understanding how events and actions work together
    • Creating a Company Planner board
    • Implementing a Company Planner board
  • Using reports
    • Using reports in Fuel Dispatch
  • Configuration settings that are used by Fuel Dispatch
    • General Info Table settings
    • INI settings
  • Fuel Dispatch
  • Release notes
  • 2017

2017

A PDF version of these release notes is available here.

2018.1 2017.6
×
×