Dock Door Scheduling
Book dock appointments and auto-assign a free door
Schedule a receipt or shipment into an offered time slot and Argos assigns the first free dock door for the chosen start time automatically.
Dock Appointment Approval
Schedule receiving and approve dock appointments
Book receiving appointments and adjust existing inbound and outbound times, then approve or reject requested times from one list. The dock team sees the carrier, planned time and approval status before the truck arrives.
What it does
- Create receipt appointments, and edit or remove existing receipt and shipment appointments
- Approve, reject or revert appointment requests to pending from one screen
- Each appointment shows carrier, planned and actual date and time, approval status and driver reference
- See daily pick capacity and book selected shipments into a slot with room
Where it fits
From the inbound truck to the client invoice, for cold storage warehouses.
Items, lots and locations set up once
Products, lots, sublots, kits and storage locations are set up once, with each item's lots and locations on its record.
- This step
Trucks booked in, paperwork ready to print
Receiving appointments are booked and requested times are approved or rejected from one list.
Record lots in and out, then find them again
Receipts and shipments record which lots and sublots moved on each line, picked from current available quantities.
Put any lot on hold, with a reason
Any lot can be put on hold with a reason code when stock must be quarantined, and released later.
Report on lots, locations and activity
Standard reports show what you hold, where it sits and what moved.
Bill each storage client from rates set once
Storage billing runs for every client on its cycle, and every proposed charge is reviewed before it is applied.
Questions about dock appointment approval
Straight answers, drawn from what the software does today.
Can we approve or reject requested appointment times?
Yes. Requested times are approved, rejected or reverted to pending from one list, and each appointment shows the carrier, planned and actual date and time, approval status and driver reference.
How are inbound trucks booked at the dock?
Book receiving appointments and approve or reject requested times from one list, so the dock team sees the carrier, planned time and approval status before the truck arrives.
Can we book shipments into a time slot that still has room?
Yes. Daily pick capacity is shown, and selected shipments are booked into a slot with room.
Related capabilities
Also in receiving and shipping.
Batch Posting of Receipts and Shipments
Commit receipts and shipments to inventory in batches
Supervisors filter the transactions they want, preview which ones the run will include, then commit them to inventory or move them to a new stage in one run.
EDI and Web Order Conversion
Turn EDI and web orders into warehouse work
Orders that arrive by EDI or as web orders land in one management screen, where a clerk reviews them and converts each into a warehouse receipt or shipment with one action.
See dock appointment approval in a walkthrough
Book a guided walkthrough with the Argos team.