Domain

A high-level, functional description of the domain entities and their relationships.

Entities

Order

Orders are the backbone of your operation as they describe distinct tasks that need to be executed within the context of an optimization. An Order has properties describing when and where it should be executed. It also has requirements and constraints that describe what resources are suitable for executing the task.

Orders come in three types, based on the type of activity and optimization:

• PICKUP : A pickup task for your company
• DELIVERY : A delivery task for your company
• PICKUP_DELIVERY : A task consisting of both a pickup and delivery activity.

Location

Locations are reusable entities that describe a single Location where an activity might be executed. They allow for reuse of these properties across Orders which simplifies managing the Location-specific properties of your Orders by providing as single point of responsibility. Multiple Locations can be created for the same geographical location, ie: for modelling distinct business cases in the same building or business centre.

Locations can heavily impact the Orders in a planning: they can include time windows, timings and even additional requirements and constraints.

Transport Request

TransportRequests describe an administrative grouping of Orders, this entity is not used in the optimization but can be used to steer it using Conditionals.

Company

Companies can be linked to a TransportRequest to identify its client, this enables you to steer the optimization using Conditionals.

Conditional

Conditionals describe rules for modifying your Orders. These rules can target any of the previous entities, enabling you to model your specific business case optimally. Any specific knowledge your planners have, but that can not be represented in your source systems, can find a suitable place here.

Consolidation

The consolidation process takes all the previously described entities into account to create a Consolidated Order. Through this process it is possible to modify opening hours for all deliveries at a certain location, temporarily increase timings when there are road works, always add requirements to orders matching your predicates, and much more.

The Consolidated Order cannot be directly managed through the APIs, however, it is included in the domain visualization due to its importance.

Triggers

Orders are consolidated when:

• they are first created, or
• they have a future execution and any of its inputs change (eg: the Order itself, its Location , a Conditional , ...)

Entity Relationships