Overriding Delivery Constraints In Optimization Automatically
Available on Staging Oct 15, 2024
Available on Production Oct 27, 2024
Shipments often require particular assets to perform the delivery such requiring a liftgate or a smaller vehicle. In certain circumstances a route planner may know that the particular location in fact does not require that special asset type. For these situations, Maven is now introducing a special shipment tag to make the optimization ignore these delivery constraints. For example a "Liftgate Not Required" or "Straight Truck Not Required."
Intelligent Insertion Of Stops On Stop Assignment
Available on Staging Sept 19, 2024
Available on Production Sept 26, 2024
We’re excited to share a new feature in the Maven Dispatch board that we’d love some of your planners to try out. This feature modifies how stops are assigned and reassigned by automatically placing them in the optimal geographic order, helping to reduce driver drive time and improve planner efficiency.
Key highlights of the feature:
- Stops will now be intelligently inserted based on minimizing distance traveled.
- It’s configurable on a per-user basis, so only a few users can trial this feature before it’s rolled out to the rest of the team.
- The feature helps improve route planning by reducing manual stop reordering and optimizing driver routes.
Intelligent Insertion Of Stops On Stop Assignment
Dispatchers can reattempt any shipment for any reason. Doing so creates a duplicate unassigned shipment that they can then assign. Some examples:
- Driver arrives to make a pickup, it's not ready, so they complete the shipment as "no freight". Customer calls in later in the day and the pickup is ready. Dispatcher can reattempt the pickup, and assign to the same driver or any other driver that's close to that location at that point
- Driver completes a delivery that is marked short. They get to the end of their route and realize the other part of the delivery is actually on the truck now. Calls the dispatcher and the dispatcher can reattempt the delivery, and assign to the same driver to return to that customer.
- Driver completes a delivery successfully in error. However they find out about this, dispatcher can reattempt that successful delivery and reassign to that same driver.
Inbound Saved Views for Route Optimization and Dispatch
Available on Staging June 10, 2024
Available on Production June 17, 2024
We are excited to introduce the Inbound Saved Views feature to enhance your fleet's route optimization and dispatch processes. This powerful tool is designed to assist LTL and other types of inbound planners in efficiently selecting the freight they need to plan for each day.
One of the significant challenges that fleets and planners face is the ability to choose a subset of shipments for delivery from a comprehensive list of all incoming shipments to their terminal. These shipments might be scheduled for future appointments or might not yet be at the terminal. The goal is to help you quickly identify the shipments that matter most to your operations.
Key Features
With Inbound Saved Views, you can:
- Create Custom Saved Views: Filter, sort, and organize shipment information in specific ways that are saved for everyone at the terminal. You can also assign colors to views for better organization.
- Quick Access: Quickly create and manage multiple views to meet the diverse needs of your planning team.
- Shared Views: Views are not limited to their creator; they are accessible to anyone using the terminal, ensuring consistency across the planning team.
Use Cases
Here are a few example use cases to illustrate the potential of this feature:
Appointment Required Filter: Displays all freight coming into your terminal that has not yet had an appointment made, ensuring these shipments are prioritized for scheduling.
Interline Partner Filter: Shows deliveries that will be handed off to other partners instead of being delivered through your network, helping in managing partnerships and handoffs efficiently.
Large Volume Customer Filter: Allows you to focus on shipments going to large volume customers, enabling better service and prioritization for key accounts.
Sequenced Filters: Allows planners to set up a sequence of filters they typically follow, ensuring a consistent and efficient workflow.
We believe the Inbound Saved Views feature will significantly streamline your fleet's planning processes, making it easier to manage and prioritize shipments effectively.
Driver HOS Anticipated and Actual Violations
Available on Staging TBD
Available on Production TBD
For fleets that use both Maven Dispatch and Maven ELD, managers will be able to see when drivers are approaching HOS violations and in HOS violation.
Approaching A - When the driver has HOS timers that are at the 30 minutes limit.
Violations V - When the driver is in active violation.
Pre and Post Route Dwell Time
Available on Staging March 15, 2024
Available on Production March 15, 2024 (via account manager activation)
Location Code Now Viewable On Stop Cards
Available on Staging March 7, 2024
Available on Production March 7, 2024
Maven now shows the location code for a stop on the stop card. This helps managers find the right customer associated to a stop, even if many locations share a similar name, such as a chain of convenience stores.
This field is supplied by either the user or the integration and is also visible in the Maven company location administrative pages.
Forced Departure Time For Routes
Available on Staging February 20, 2024
Available on Production March 8, 2024
Maven Optimization Engine will start the route at the most efficient time of the day to make the deliveries that the routes must perform. Sometimes though, a route must begin at a particular time of the day and beginning later would result in operational issues. The most common example is for drivers who have a shift that starts at a set time and they cannot easily be rescheduled.
To model these situations, Maven Optimization Engine has a new constraint to force the route to begin within a certain period of the requested time.
Asset Classes and Constraints For Routes
Available on Staging February 19, 2024
Available on Production March 1, 2024
Planners and managers can now set an assetClass for a delivery manifest. If the delivery manifest is created using Maven route optimization, the assetClass will be automatically assigned from the optimization configuration.
With this assetClass constraint, planners and dispatchers will now see relevant constraints.
Manifest overweight or overvolume. The blue bars underneath each delivery manifest show the load percentage for the manifest.
Non-serviceable stop. If a delivery manifest has stops that cannot be serviced by assetClass of the delivery manifest, planners will see a warning that the stop cannot be serviced.
API Addition: Ingesting Shipment Dimensions
February 2024 • In Development
Many fleets use dimensioning tools to measure the dimensions of freight on the dock. Fleets can send this information to Maven for the calculation of palletSpaces and other shipment metrics.
Return Events Addition: Planned Service Times, Planned Travel Times, and Planned Stop Arrival And Depatures
February 2024 • In Development
Many fleets use dimensioning tools to measure the dimensions of freight on the dock. Fleets can send this information to Maven for the calculation of palletSpaces and other shipment metrics.
Reload Stops (Planning 2.0 Only)
February 2024 • In Development • Scheduled for Feb 8, 2024
Fleets that reload a single asset throughout the day can indicate that they'd like to create a single route with reload stops. This better models operations where a driver comes back to a terminal reloads the same trailer or truck, then goes back out again.
Reload feature includes:
- Manager can add or delete a reload stop manually
- Maven Final Mile Optimizer can include a reload stop on route if route has reload option selected.
- Driver can complete a reload stop
Selecting Optimization Date and Including Past and Future Stops (Planning 2.0 Only)
February 2024 • In Development • Scheduled for Feb 8, 2024
Users of Maven's Planning 2.0 product will now have the ability to select the date they want to create optimal routes. In addition, they will be able to pull forward or include past due stops that would be normally be excluded because of stop dates.
Ready To Plan Filter (Planning 2.0 Only)
February 2024 • In Development • Scheduled for Feb 8, 2024
Users of Maven's Planning 2.0 product will now have the ability to add and remove stops to their plan. This feature will better support selecting the freight they wish to include in optimization.
Stops and shipments both can be added and removed from the planning set.
Updated Shipment Details View In Stop Panel
January 2024
Improvements to how users can see shipment details on the stop panel. Includes the ability to press on a PRO number or reference number for automatic copying to clipboard.
New shipmentDetailsUpdated Integration Event
January 2024 In Development
When the details of a shipment are updated, Maven will add a shipmentDetailsUpdated integration event to the integration queue.
Completing Routes Through Maven Dispatch Board
January 2024
Sometimes drivers do not fully complete their routes using the Maven driver app. Sometimes the driver's phone may have died. They might have just forgotten to close their route. There are many reasons, and while it's best practice that drivers always complete their routes, the reality of managing hundreds of drivers means there needs to be another way to close out a route.
Maven now will let a office worker close out a route on behalf of the driver using Maven Dispatch. The officer will need to give a completion code for the freight that Maven does not know about. And that's it.
Limiting Dispatch Of Routes With Hazardous Materials To Only Drivers With Proper Credentials
January 2024
When a route's shipments have hazardous materials, only properly credentialed drivers may take that route. Maven will now now allow drivers without hazardous materials credentials to take hazmat loads.
Maven supports two levels of hazmat credentials. Full CDL credentials and HM126 credentials. HM126 drivers may only take out less than 1,000 lb. of hazardous materials.
For fleets to take advantage of this limit, they must tell Maven which drivers have hazardous materials credentials and which shipments have hazardous materials items on them. Maven's /users endpoint now supports sending in credential information along with expiration of the credentials. Maven's /shipment endpoint now supports flagging shipment line items as hazardous.
Improved hovering for multiple stops at same location
January 2024
Sometimes two or more stops occur at the same geographic location. For these situations, Maven will show both stops when the user hovers on the location on the map.
Making Stop Multi-select More Useful
January 2024
Dispatch power users multi-select stops all the time. Whether bulk selecting using the stop list or lasso'ing stops they are interested in, selecting multiple stops lets users assign many stops with a single click to a route.
Maven is adding the ability for Dispatch users will be able to see a list of their selected stops and also remove specific stops from their selection.
City Manifest History Report
December 2023
Display Current Freight Location For Shipments In Dispatch Board
August 2023
For fleets that use Maven's facility location system, Maven will now show each shipment's current location in the dispatch board. This helps the planner see where all the freight is and what freight has been loaded onto the trailer.
In the photo above, you can see shipment locations of "D12," "D13A," and "A45."
Improvements to Multi-Route Cards
August 2023
Maven is adding improvements to make the stacked route cards more useful for users. Route actions like editing details, optimizing, and zooming to route will be available. In addition metrics will be available so the user can know summary information about all the routes selected.
Stop Window Padding During Optimization
August 2023
Sometimes you may want to ask the optimization to more loosely follow stop windows for stops. This may be where the fleet would prefer a shorter more efficient route even if it violates some time windows. For this, Maven now supports adding padding time to stop windows.
Moving Planned Delivery Stops Between Terminals
August 2023
Sometimes a delivery stop needs to be moved to a different terminal for planning. Maven will now support moving delivery stops between terminals. This will apply for both individual stops and bulk-selected stops.
Optimization Projected Metrics Information
August 2023
To help planners better choose the right set of routes to optimize, Maven now includes three metrics showing the projected activity of each route prior to running the full optimization.
- "Proj. Volume" - The projected volume that will be loaded onto the route.
- "Proj. Stops" - The number of stops that are expected to be assigned to the route.
- "Proj. Stop Time" - The total time at all the stops projected to be on the route. This does not include driving time.
With this information, planner can add, remove, or modify routes. This results in fewer unassigned stops that need to be manually handled after optimization.
Map-based Stop Assignment, Reordering, and Reassignment
August 2023
Reassigning Stops
Previously, if a user wanted to reassign a stop, they had to first unassign the stop. Then assign the stop to the desired route. Maven has now introduced a reassign option
Map-based Assignment
Dispatchers and Planners can now directly assign, reassign, and reorder stops directly on the dispatch board map. Before this feature, to assign a stop required selecting the stop, then selecting the route in the route list. Now, in addition to that flow, you can assign stops by pressing an already assigned stop on the map. The selected stops will be inserted immediately after the stop selected.
Secondary Territories For Optimization
August 2023
Maven has always supported limiting routes to a particular territories, but sometimes planners like finer control over where a route can and cannot go. For example, a particular vehicle may have special delivery capabilities, and so while the planner prefers to have the vehicle in a primary area, they are fine if it goes to secondary areas to make deliveries only that vehicle can make.
To support this use case, Maven now offers the option to set a secondary territory that the route can service if the primary territory has already been serviced. This is not time-based, and so stops in the secondary territory may be serviced earlier in the day than stops in the primary territory if it meets time windows and minimizes distance.
Optimization Precheck
August 2023
There are common problems that often result in the Maven optimizer not being able to assign a stop to a route. These include non-geocoded stops, stops too big to fit on a particular piece of equipment, and stops not falling within a territory. Maven now warns you ahead of time when there are these kinds of problems so they can be fixed before running the optimizer.
Read more on the related Knowledge Base article.
Dispatch Board Keyboard Shortcuts
August 2023
Increase your efficiency and streamline workflow with keyboard shortcuts designed specifically for LTL dispatchers and planners. Speed up your tasks with shortcuts like 'A' for quick stop assignment, 'Z' for seamless map zooming, and 'L' for effortless stop lassoing and selection.
Read more about the essential shortcuts that will save you valuable time and effort in the related Knowledge Base article
Dispatch Board Territories
July 2023
The Maven dispatch and planning map now has the ability to display your service center's territories. This is helpful for seeing which stops are owned by a particular territory.