Save time and money with easy to use, powerful, scheduling software for warehouse shipping areasThe answer for managers looking to improve their business by upgrading their shipping door scheduling process. With MaxScheduler you can prepare and distribute a graphical schedule easier and faster, saving time and money for your business and reducing stress for you.Helps manage your shipping area - MaxScheduler imports data on shipments. A graphical schedule can be created in a few minutes showing which door will be allocated and how long the door will be occupied for. Return on Investment (ROI) - You'll send less trucks by using the capacity features to make use of the full trailer. Through better receving area management you'll meet delivery deadlines. Everyone on the same page - The schedule can be published as a web page to share easily within your organization. This way everyone can inform themselves of what is being worked on. For example, customer service can check on the status of shipments. This will also reduce trips to a shipping office to see the schedule. Workload management - MaxScheduler shows summary data and capacity information easily. It makes it easy to move shipments between doors to balance out work load. Also you can plan manpower requirements are for the day. Return on Investment for scheduling software:
How does the it work? - On the upper right is a screenshot of MaxScheduler. The bottom blue area lists shipments to schedule. Orange area is the scheduling board. The columnns represent resources to schedule like machines. The rows are time slots. Scheduling is done by using your mouse to drag and drop shipments from the blue list area onto the scheduling board. Watch a video about scheduling software. Works with your other computer systems - The import/export features enable integration with other systems such as: Accounting, MRP, ERP, WMS, etc. By using the import feature your reducing the chance of clerical errors. Other example uses - MaxScheduler is one piece of software that has been used by our customers in a variety of ways. We have created a few pre-configured versions with sample data to help show how the software can be used as a:
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Additional benefits of MaxScheduler scheduling softwareCapacity planning - It is useful to know the impact of work on your facility in terms of capacity. MaxScheduler has a number of ways to show capacity related information. When a shipment is placed onto the scheduling board it can take up a variable amount of time thus showing how long a resource will be occupied for. MaxScheduler will also sum numbers along rows and columnns which gives another way to see shipment impact. Which numbers are summarized is a configurable feature. The following image shows the column and row totals.  Important details front and center - MaxScheduler can be configured so that when a shipment is scheduled only the most important details are shown front and center on the graphical schedule. The schedule is designed to display the details in a compact form. For instance in the item below, nine details about a shipment are shown separated by '/'.  Share, share, share - Once the schedule is created it can be published as a web page to share across your organization. This way everyone can inform themselves the status of shipments. The schedule can be printed out to share with those without computer access. Publishing is done through menu Boards | Publish all boards.  Lots of equipment? No problem. - Large facilities will have many resources that require scheduling. The more resources, the more complex the scheduling will be. Scheduling all the resources through one screen may not be practical. For this reason, MaxScheduler lets you group resources into boards to make it easier to create and view the overall schedule. When your looking at the main screen of MaxScheduler you are seeing one board. There are navigation arrows at the top for quickly scrolling through the boards (groups) of resources.  Emergencies all the time! Adjust the schedule! - In an active business, exceptions occur all the time. Equipment breaks, rush shipments need to be pushed through, important customers need a favor, etc. MaxScheduler has couple of features that make it easier to make wholesale changes with little effort. For instance, if a resource is booked solid for 2 months, a shipment can be "squeezed" into the existing columnn of work, the future shipments will all shift down. Also its possible to shift an entire columnn of work down in the case a resource is not available for a day. Where's that shipment? - Its important to be able to find shipments quickly or sort through shipments. In MaxScheduler there is a find feature for scheduled shipments through menu Board | Search Board. Enter in a search string and a result screen will show all possible matches with there details. The List view at the bottom has sorting and filtering features similar to those found in spreadsheet programs.  Schedule timing - From our experience businesses have schedules that vary in the time window they cover. Some businesses have plans that cover one day while others need to have a 6 month schedule laid out. MaxScheduler has a number of configurations to accommodate both extremes and everything in between. Schedule rows can be adjusted to cover fractions of an hour and up to a day. A window of schedule time can be defined and moves forward automatically at the start of each day. Operating hours can also be specified to reflect when your facility is open during a week and what the start time is. |
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