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Cross-Dock Exception Triage
Run reality against the plan. Pick an arriving trailer, enter what actually came off per route, and the tool flags shorts and overs, suggests a re-slot when a route is already closed, and prints a pick/sort sheet for the floor. Loads the Door Planner's plan automatically on the same device, or import a plan file.
No plan loaded. Plan it in the Door Planner first (it auto-loads here on the same device), or import a plan file:
What this calculator does
This tool compares what actually came off an arriving trailer with the cross-dock plan. For each route it flags shorts and overs, suggests a re-slot when a route has already closed, and builds a sort sheet for the floor. It loads the plan built in the Cross-Dock Door Planner on the same device, or you can import a plan file.
Inputs that matter
- A plan: built in the Cross-Dock Door Planner and loaded automatically from the same browser, or imported as a JSON file.
- The arriving trailer, chosen from the plan's inbound list.
- The actual quantity that came off the trailer for each outbound route, including routes that were not in the plan.
How it works
Planned quantity is the link volume for that trailer and route. The delta is actual minus planned: negative is short, positive is over and zero is ok. A route you enter that was not planned shows as over.
If a route is short, its cutoff has already passed on the current clock and some freight is on hand, the tool looks for a re-slot. It considers other outbound routes with the same destination tag that are still open and, where a capacity is set, have room for the quantity. It suggests the one with the earliest cutoff. With no destination tag or no open route, it suggests holding the freight for the next wave.
The sort sheet lists each route that received freight with its destination, door, quantity and a note: short, over and verify, re-slot from the closed route, or hold area.
Each reconciliation is added to a variance log in the plan with the date. When a route is short, over or re-slotted on three or more separate dates, it is flagged as a chronic pattern worth investigating in the plan.
Frequently asked questions
- What counts as a short or an over?
- Short means fewer units came off the trailer for a route than the plan allocated, and over means more. The tool compares the actual quantity you enter with the planned link volume for that trailer and route.
- How does it choose a new route for a short?
- Only when the original route has closed. It looks for another route with the same destination tag whose cutoff is still ahead and which has enough capacity if one is set, then picks the earliest cutoff. If none qualifies, it recommends holding the freight.
- What are chronic patterns?
- They are routes that were short, over or re-slotted on at least three different dates in the saved variance log. They point to a plan that does not match reality, so the fix is usually in the plan rather than on the floor.