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 fields default to values that are defined on the Routes Tab of Customer File Maintenance.

 

•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 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.