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The Home tab shows an overview of points of interest (POIs) with excursions:

  • Interactive map showing POIs with excursions.

  • Number of locations with excursions by type of location.

  • Monthly shipments with excursions by date delivered.

  • List of POI with details about the location, shipments and excursions.

Supply chain soft spots dashboard - home tab

Note

A point of interest (POI) is a a customer defined location, airport or harbor which shipments have traveled to and/or from.

Interactive map indicating location of points of interest.

Interactive map showing POI by location, and color indicating number of excursions.

By default the map shows POIs with excursions . You can click a POI on the map to filter the data in the tab for that location. You can also click a POI in the Details about POIs table below.

You can toggle between viewing POIs with excursions or all POIs:

  • To view all locations, click

    Click to see all locations on the map
  • To view only POIs with excursions, click

    Click to see only POIs (locations with excursions) on the map

Tip

You can hover over a POI to see the following information:

  • geocoordinates of location

  • name of location

  • number of shipments with excursions at location

Tip

You can select areas on the map using the selection mode:

Map selection mode - arrow - point to arrow and options will appear - point to Map selection mode - arrow - point to arrow and options will appear and the selection mode options appear:

  • Map selection mode - circle - click to select a round area - select a circular area

  • Map selection mode - rectangle - click to select a rectangular area - select a rectangular area

  • Map selection mode - circle - click to select a polygonal area - select a polygonal area

  • Map selection mode - range selection - click to search by time or distance - perform a range selection, to select an area within a specific distance or travel time from the selected point

The data in the page will update to show only selected POIs.

  • You can zoom in and out on the map:

    • To zoom in on the map, do one of the following:

      • Double-click the map.

      • Scroll up with the scroll button on your mouse.

    • To zoom out on the map, scroll down with the scroll button on your mouse.

  • You can resize the map:

    • To see a larger map, click Map focus mode - click to see a larger map (focus mode).

      A larger map appears.

    • To return to the dashboard, click Back to report.

      The previous page appears.

SCSS dashboard - Home - Filter

You can filter the data in the page by the date shipment was delivered and show only POIs with a minimum number of shipments:

Item

Description

Shipments delivered

Only include Points of interest with at least this number of shipments

Minimum number of shipments. You can filter the results on this tab to only show POIs with at least this number of shipment:

  • Minimum number of shipments. You can adjust this to filter the data in the tab to show only POIs with this many shipments or more.

  • Highest number of shipments found in selected points of interest.

SCSS dashboard - POIs - KPIs for points of interests

Number of locations with excursions grouped by type of locations.

Item

Description

Airports with excursions

Number of airports where at least one shipment has had an excursion.

Harbors with excursions

Number of harbors where at least one shipment has had an excursion.

Origins with excursions

Number of origins where at least one shipment has had an excursion.

Destinations with excursions

Number of destinations where at least one shipment has had an excursion.

SCSS - Monthly shipments with excursions by delivered date

Trend for number of shipments with excursions at this POI in the period selected in the filter above.

SCSS dashboard - details table

Details about POIs.

Drill through selected POI

Click to view the selected POI in the POI excursions tab

Select a POI in the table below and click the button to view details about the selected lane in the Point of Interest tab.

Filters

SCSS dashboard - Details table filters

You can filter the data in the table. The filters will affect the contents of the table as well as the map above.

Note

Not all customers have the same filters. You may not see all of the following filters, or you may have filters not shown here.

Tip

To clear the filter, click the eraser Click eraser to clear this filter.

Item

Description

Country

Country of POI. Click to select, or press CTRL and click to select more than one from the list.

Point of interest type

Type of POI. Click to select, or press CTRL and click to select more than one of the following:

Temperature range

Temperature range configured for shipment. Click to select, or press CTRL and click to select more than one from the list.

Transportation mode

Mode of transportation of shipment. Click to select, or press CTRL and click to select more than one from the list.

Business unit

Business unit of shipment, as configured in custom properties in SCMSCM system..

Carrier

Name of carrier.

Search

Free text search. Type to filter the results by a POI.

POI details table

SCSS dashboard - details table

List of POIs - locations where shipments have pinged, with details about each POI.

Tip

To view details about a POI, select the lane in the table and click the Drill through selected POI button to view details about the lane in the Point of Interest tab:

Click to view the selected POI in the POI excursions tab

Tip

You can click any column header to sort the contents of the table by the contents of that column. An arrow indicates the column the table is sorted by: An arrow pointing up indicates ascending order, and an arrow pointing down indicates descending order. Click the column header to toggle between the two.

Item

Description

Point of interest

Name of POI.

Country

Country of POI.

Type

Type of location of POI.

  • Airport

  • Destination

  • Dual (location is both origin and destination)

  • En route (leg between POIs)

  • Harbor

  • Origin

Shipments

Number of shipments traveling through this POI.

Shipments with excursions at POI

Number of shipments with excursions at this POI.

POI Excursion ratio

Ratio of shipments traveling through this POI that have had excursions at this POI.