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Article: Status quo no longer: when considering your next dispatch office design, keep in mind how technology is changing the way that you will monitor product delivery.(Cover Story)
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- The Concrete Producer
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Each delivery that the concrete producer makes consists of several complex functions. Because each function is actually a distinct stage of a truck's readiness for delivery, programmers must monitor each change. Programmers refer to this monitoring of function change as statusing.
Keeping track of each truck's activity can become an enormous task. On a busy day, it can become a mathematical undertaking in a very short time.
Start with the fact that there are seven basic delivery statuses. These are loading material onto or into a truck, departing the plant and driving to the jobsite, arriving on the jobsite, unloading, readying the truck for return, ...
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