The Scheduler is where carriers plan booked jobs across their vehicles and days. Used by carriers.
What it is
A planning view of your jobs over time, by vehicle and by day, so you can see what is happening and when.
Why it's there
Once you are taking bookings, you need to see them laid out and make sure the right vehicle is doing the right work at the right time, without double-booking a vehicle or a container.
How it works
Jobs that have a date appear in the Scheduler. Unscheduled jobs wait in the To be scheduled list until you place them. You assign each job to a vehicle, and because drivers are assigned to vehicles, the driver on that vehicle picks the work up. You can move jobs around as the day changes. Your stock and asset visibility feeds in, so you can see whether you have the containers free to take a job on.
Anybody booked off under Leave & absence is kept off the board for those days, so you are not crewing somebody who is not in.
Scrolling the board into the next day moves the date along with it, so you can run through the week without clicking back and forth.
Ticks and crosses
A green tick means the visit was done: the waste was collected, or the container went down.
A red cross means its time has gone by and nobody did it, so it is one to chase.
A visit still to come carries no mark at all, and a cancelled job is not on the board.
The Key button above the board explains all of this, along with the colour each kind of visit carries: delivery, collection, exchange, wait and load, and plant hire.
Related: Jobs. Assignment. Stock and Assets. Yards.