SCM UI Restyle
The SCM UI has gone through some restyling to better align with Controlant branding. What this entails is that the logos and colors are updated to the current Controlant branding standard.
In addition the look of buttons and window responsiveness to different sizes has been updated.
Users should still find all the actions in the same place as before.
While this change impacts all users, a special care was taken so that the functionality would be minimally impacted. However, there are a few changes that we want to mention specifically:
In the single shipment view the tabs have been moved to the left and underneath the Shipment Name.
The Admin Panel is now a page and not a pop up modal.
Shipment list item has been slightly updated. See below current (left) and updated (right).
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Buttons have slightly updated look and feel.
30 Loggers per shipment
Maximum number of loggers in a single shipment will be raised from 12 to 30. Increasing the number of loggers in a single shipment to a maximum of 30 loggers will reduce the need for customers for having to split their shipments into multiple shipments.
Shipment Quality assessment based on Product data
With this addition the quality of shipments (auto release process) with Products will be released based on the Products' stability data defined in the Controlant Platform.
The quality assessment, is run in the backend and is triggered by shipment delivery. Once the shipment is delivered the system will now detect if the account is using Products Module. If there are Products in the shipment a quality assessment is made based on the Product’s stability data. For customers not using the Product Module the assessment will be made in the same way as before.
Note that this change only applies to customers that are using the Products Module and have their product stability data defined in the system.
Location pagination
This change was made to improve performance of the system for customers that have a large number of locations defined within the system. The locations are now loaded through a paginated endpoint.
Search for Shipments by multiple origins and destinations
When using the shipment search in SCM the user can now select multiple locations in origin and/or destination fields. This can come in handy for example when searching for shipments for several lanes or when the locations are created from ERP data and there are multiple locations in defined in the Controlant platform for the same physical location.
Manually start or stop individual loggers from SCM UI
This added feature allows users that have permission to modify shipments to manually set shipping time and delivery time of individual loggers. Previously when manually shipping or delivering it was only possible to do that on a shipment level, affecting all loggers.
It is a benefit to apply these actions to individual loggers in situations e.g. where a single logger was not properly started by the button on location or a single logger must be delivered as it was removed from the shipment at customs.
Make it easier for users to find templates when creating shipments
Users can now type in template name when selecting templates during shipment creation. Simply select the drop down menu and start typing in the template name. The list will be reduced based on the user input.
This will impact all users that create shipments and are using warning and contact templates. Instead of having to search through all the templates the users can now easily find the templates they are looking for by typing in the template name, or a part of the template name, to narrow down the resutlts.
Discontinued support of IE11
As previously communicated, as of this release Controlant will no longer be supporting Internet Explorer as a browser.
This will impact all users that are using IE as their browser. Users visiting SCM via IE will be shown a message saying the browser is not supported and directed to the supported browser.
Minor changes
Following changes will be included in the release as well with minimum impact on the user.
Users can now right click Create Shipment button and open in a new tab.
Canary Islands have been added to the available list of countries.
Error message improved when manual Data Upload fails.
Possibility to select all loggers when performing a rearm action.
Bug fixes
Following bug fixes are included in the release:
Time zone name was not updated with Customer setting in the Shipment Reports
When resetting a password no error message was displayed if user enters a password conflicting with customers reuse password policy.
Please contact me with any questions or concerns at ragnar@controlant.com
Kind regards,
Ragnar Gylfason
Product Owner,