Create a Shipment Unloading Plan

Shipment plans can include planned bulk unloading transactions, planned incidents (delays), and planned transport events.

Security Note: This procedure can only be performed by a user who is a member of a user group with Allow shipment maintenance security right in the Shipments domain security rights group for this activity.

Activity Steps

  1. Open the Shipment.
  2. Ensure that a Vessel/Ship is assigned to the shipment.
  3. Select the unloading route point in the Route diagram.
  4. Ensure that Loading / Unloading in the shipment header field group is Unloading. This setting depends on the route configuration. See Edit the Route of a Shipment.
  5. Select the Planned Unloading sub-tab of the Logistics tab.

    The Unloading field group displays the process flows that exist from the location of the route point to destination locations.

  6. Create a despatch unloading plan:
    1. Right-click in the Despatch Plan Versions table and select New » Unloading Plan from the menu.
    2. Enter Comments if required. The maximum length is 1024 characters. The comment for the selected plan also displays in the Comments field in the Despatch Plan Versions table.
    3. Enter a Tolerance value as a percentage if required. The tolerance is the maximum variation between the actual quantity and the planned quantity specified in the plan. If the actual quantity is out of tolerance, the transaction is highlighted red in the Unloading tab.
  7. Add sequences and planned unloading transactions:
    1. Select the required plan.
    2. To add an unloading sequence with a transaction:
      1. Expand the Process Flow » Location tree in the Unloading field group.
      2. Drag the required hatch in the shipment diagram to the required stockpile.

        If successful, MineMarket adds a transaction to the end of the list of transactions.

    3. To add a sequence, right-click in the Transactions table and select New » Sequence from the menu.

      MineMarket creates the sequence with a single transaction after the last sequence.

    4. To add a transaction to a sequence, right-click a sequence in the Transactions table and select New » Transaction from the menu.
  8. Update the following fields for the transactions in the Transactions table as required.
    • Start Date
    • End Date
    • Process Flow
    • Vessel Hatch
    • Destination
    • Movement Product—Select from the products and brands defined on the Material panel of the Solution Explorer.
    • Planned Mass
    • Unit—Select from the Mass units defined in the Unit Conversion Editor. Default: The Default UOM of the shipment template if applicable, or else metric tonnes.
    • Despatch Order—Select from the despatch orders associated with the despatch. If only one associated despatch order matches the selected movement product for the transaction, that despatch order is selected by default.
    • Planned Equipment—Select from the equipment items associated with the selected process flow.
    • Comment
  9. To add a planned incident (delay):
    1. Right-click a sequence in the Transactions table and select New » Incident from the menu.
    2. Update the following fields.
      • Start Date
      • End Date
      • Incident Definition—Select from incident definitions defined in the Incident Definition Editor and that are applicable to vessels.
      • Comment
  10. To add a planned transport event:
    1. Right-click a sequence in the Transactions table and select New » Event from the menu.
    2. Update the following fields.
  11. To reorder the sequences, right-click a sequence and select Move Sequence Up or Move Sequence Down from the menu.
  12. To reorder the transactions within a sequence, right-click a transaction and select Move Sequence Item Up or Move Sequence Item Down from the menu.
  13. If the plan is ready to use, check Completed for the plan in the Despatch Plan Versions table. Multiple plans can be marked as Completed.
  14. To duplicate a plan and its transactions, right-click the plan in the Despatch Plan Versions table and select Duplicate from the menu.
  15. Select which plan is Active. Only one plan can be active.
  16. Click Save.