The Route field represents what truck will be delivering the order.

 

•The route field can contain up to 5 characters.

•It is highly recommended that you use all 5 characters when defining the route number.

 

The Stop field represents the order the invoice will be delivered on the Route.

 

•The stop field can contain up to 3 characters.

• It is highly recommended that you use all 3 characters when defining the stop number.

•It is recommended that you leave room between stop numbers in case you need to add a new stop to the route.

• A common approach is to increment the stop numbers by 10. For example, the first stop of the day may be 100 followed by 110, 120, etc.

 

The Route & Stop field defaults to values that are defined on the Routes tab of Customer File Maintenance.

 

The Route field now contains a drop down menu to select a route.

 

This can be used for customers with no route assigned in the Customer File.

 

The Route drop down list will display all customer routes defined for the day of the week represented by “Invoice Date”.

 

Any new routes created for other invoices with the same Invoice Date.

 

You still can edit the route field so that you can create new route names “on the fly” as before.

 

 

 

•If you have delivery times defined and the invoice date corresponds with the delivery time, the route & stop will default to the value assigned to that delivery day.

•If there is not a route or stop associated with the delivery time or the invoice date falls on a non scheduled delivery day, but a value is defined for the Standard route & stop, those values will be used instead.

• If neither of the above conditions are met, the route number field will default to a blank value.

•You can later use the Assign Route Number utility in entrée to override the values entered while creating the invoice. This allows you to view all of the invoices for a particular day or route and adjust Route and Stop values as needed to even out your deliveries between all of your trucks.

 

You should not use any dashes, commas or spaces in the route or stop number fields.

 

•entrée uses a combination of the route and stop fields to sort the invoices if you choose to print invoices, load sheets, or reports in delivery order or reverse delivery order.

•The route and stop fields will be disabled when working with credit memos.

•The route and stop fields will not be displayed when working with sales orders.