Skip to content

Managing Scheduled Shipments

contract with an executed schedule To make shipments from Wheelhouse, one needs a contract with a shipping schedule containing all the necessary information for executing a shipment, or several shipments.

In addition, RailCars must be available for the shipment. A RailCar is available when it is not currently assigned to any shipment. It is possible to check for available RailCars.

Shipping through Wheelhouse

To ship through Wheelhouse:

  1. Navigate to the 'Shipments' section using the sidemenu.

  2. Select the facility.

  3. Switch to the 'Contract Schedules' tab.

  4. Find your schedule by name, and click 'CREATE NEW SHIPMENT'.

    1. This action will navigate to the rail-shipment-form. Notice that the rail-shipment-form is populated with values from the shipping schedule.

  5. Add any additional information for the shipment.

  6. Select car(s) from the 'available cars' listing on the bottom right.

    1. This action will move the car(s) into the 'Shipment' listing on the left.
    2. NOTE: Cars with a red capacity dot will be prevented from being loaded onto a shipment as they are overloaded.

  7. Once there are cars in the shipment, click the 'ship' button on the top-right.

    1. This action kicks off the shipment process, DO NOT click 'ship' until ready.

Checking Available Rail Cars

To check for available cars:

  1. In the 'Shipments' section, switch to the 'cars' tab.

  2. Use the 'shipment-status' column and filter (right click on column header) to status 'not-loaded'.

    1. This actions updates the table to show only empty cars.

  3. Select a rail car, to launch the tank car dialog.

  4. Update the product to match the contract product.

    1. The product property of the rail car must match the contract product/commodity to appear as an available car in the shipment-form.

NOTE: To create shipments it is necessary to have a shipping schedule first. If there are no shipping schedules, learn how to manage shipping schedules.