Scheduling amhs pickup and delivery ahead of schedule

A method and apparatus for use in scheduling in an automated process flow such that vehicles for a material transport are staged prior to the commencement of an appointment for the transport are disclosed. The method includes scheduling a material transport in the process flow; and requesting a stag...

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Hauptverfasser:	STEVEN C NETTLES, MARLIN SHOPBELL, ACHIM FELBER, JOERG LUEBKE, TAU LOK
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING COMPUTING CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL CONTROLLING COUNTING DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS PHYSICS REGULATING SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Zusammenfassung:	A method and apparatus for use in scheduling in an automated process flow such that vehicles for a material transport are staged prior to the commencement of an appointment for the transport are disclosed. The method includes scheduling a material transport in the process flow; and requesting a staging of a vehicle for the material transport a predetermined time period prior to the material transport. The apparatus, in various aspects, includes a computer and computing system programmed to perform the method in an automated process flow as well as a computer-readable program storage medium encoded with instruction that, when executed, perform such a method.