Transport Locations

A rail siding is a location for train loading and unloading, essential for train routes.

A truck location is a location for truck loading and unloading, essential for truck routes.

A barge terminal is a location for barge loading and/or unloading, essential for barge routes.

A port location is a location for ship loading and unloading and is essential for shipment routes. Shipments are assigned to these locations, but may have stock locations defined as sub-locations to represent the port stockyard.

Generic Transport Locations and Routes

A planned loading location and planned unloading location can be specified for despatch orders. If the despatch order is associated with a despatch, information from the despatch is used in invoice calculations for the despatch order. For example, the quantity of material that was loaded supersedes the despatch order's required quantity, and quality data from samples on the despatch supersede the despatch order specifications. By default, the loading location and unloading location in the despatch route also supersede the planned loading location and planned unloading location (only if there are transactions at those route points). These locations may impact invoice calculations, by determining applicable demurrage and despatch conditions, service and freight calculations, parities and contract charges.

For MineMarket implementations with many locations, it may not be practical to set up a route for every possible combination of origin and destination, with bulk material process flows or discrete unit movement flows to support those routes. A simpler configuration is to set up a generic loading location and unloading location for each required transport type. The generic route will not have useful travel times between the route points; however, itinerary dates and times may be entered for each despatch or imported from other systems. If using generic routes, it is essential to configure despatch orders to assume generic loading and unloading locations. See Enter Default Locations for a Sales or Purchase Contract and Edit Despatch Order Details. The locations entered on the despatch order can then be used for invoice calculations, instead of the despatch route points.