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Looking at the planning cockpit

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Looking at the planning cockpit

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- [Instructor] So this lesson is about TMs planning capabilities, as I mentioned earlier, planning, or I'll call it the guts of TM, it's really what TM is all about. So this is a snapshot of a TM Planning Cockpit as they call it and this is configurable, you can make it look the way you want, but a typical approach is that you have orders that need to be planned on the left, and available resources, think trucks, on the lower left, now in this case, I only have one kind of truck available, typically, you would have more, be it common carriers or your own fleet. And then on the top right are orders, freight orders that have already been planned, now, why would I show orders that have already been planned? It is possible that their plan, their legitimate lows are good lows but maybe I have some available capacity, so I might want to gut the optimizer to take a look at new orders, ones over here, and add them to these existing freight orders if there's capacity, if it meets all the other…

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