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Master data: Resource and driver

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Master data: Resource and driver

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- [Instructor] Finally, there is a resource truck. So a truck. Say in the example of a truck, you need to define that resource in terms of what is and it's capacity. So you are defining capacity in terms of however you need to. It might be wait, it might be cube. Might be numbered pallets or some combination. There are lots of places to record the dimensions, wheel locations, door widths, heights of that truck or container or vessel, whatever it is, if you need to. The key is that you are taking that truck and you are linking it to a means of transport. So again, we're hooking everything together here. So I have hooked this particular truck to my, what we call for this particular customer, a dedicated truckload, full truckload means of transport. A resource can also be generic. Meaning it's a common carrier. You don't have a specific truck number for it, 'cause you just call the common carrier and they bring a truck, or it can be part of your own fleet where you can actually assign…

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