The open positions board gives an overview of the allocation of voyages that need to be scheduled. It shows commitments in the leftmost column and all allocated voyages in the other columns. There are several settings to refine the view located in the top right.
Vertical grouping options: None, Week, Month
Column grouping of allocated voyages: Vessels, Areas
Show one column further to the left or right
Filtering
Switch to Gantt Board (Schedule view)
The area settings and the date format are chosen in Application settings in the top right corner.
On the voyage card a lot of information is shown. The lefthand side of the graphic depicts the open position, the end of the previous voyage. The righthand side of the graphic depicts information on the voyage itself.
Vessel name
Last port on previous voyage
Departure date from last discharge port on previous voyage
Laycan Indicator:
Blue: Arrival in first load port is before (target) lay date
Black: Arrival in first load port is within (target) laycan window
Red: Arrival in first load port is after (target) can date
Grey: No laycan or target laycan is given
Laycan Deviation of performance cargo in first load port:
If early: - # days between (target) lay date and arrival date in first load port
If on time: OK
If late: + # days between (target) can date and arrival date in first load port
(Target) lay and can date of the performance cargo
Voyage Type: It can be SPOT, COA, TC, or BALLAST.
Charterer
Voyage Reference
First load port on the voyage
Arrival and departure date in the first load port
Commodity of the performance cargo
Voyage status: Can be estimate, scheduled, nominated, operational, operationally closed, invoiced, closed.
Last discharge port on the voyage
Arrival and departure date in the last discharge port
Quantity of the performance cargo
Voyages and open positions that are ballast and thus don't have an associated cargo are displayed in blue.
Additional information on the voyage and its cargos is displayed in the voyage drawer. This can accessed by clicking on the voyage card.
You can filter which voyages you would like to see by using the button in the top right corner
You can separately filter commitments and allocated voyages (open positions) by many different criteria. If you select several options in one criterion, an OR filter is applied. If you filter by different categories at the same time, these are combined using the operator AND.
The open positions board gives an overview of the allocation of voyages that need to be scheduled. It shows commitments in the leftmost column and all allocated voyages in the other columns. There are several settings to refine the view located in the top right.
Displayed time period
Move view to the left or right
Switch to Open Positions Board
The area settings and the date format are chosen in Application settings in the top right corner.
On the voyage card a lot of information is shown. The lefthand side of the graphic depicts the open position, the end of the previous voyage. The righthand side of the graphic depicts information on the voyage itself.
The length of the coloured bar indicates the ballast proportion of the voyage. The bar is blue, if the lay date in the first port is reached and red, if arrival is late.
Voyage Reference
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Voyage Type: It can be SPOT, COA, TC, or BALLAST.
Start and end date of voyage. Saturdays are displayed in blue and sundays in orange.
First load port > Last discharge port
Laycan Deviation of performance cargo in first load port:
If early: blue, - # days between (target) lay date and arrival date in first load port
If on time: black, OK
If late: red, + # days between (target) can date and arrival date in first load port
(Target) lay and can date of the performance cargo. Saturdays are displayed in blue and sundays in orange.
Laycan graphic:
dark grey area: size of the laycan window
Arrow: Arrival time in first load port
Arrow color: blue - early, black - on time, red - late; indicated arrival with respect to laycan
Additional information on the voyage and its cargos is displayed in the voyage drawer. This can accessed by clicking on the voyage card.
In Fleet Allocation and Scheduling (FAS) you can work on voyages in the planning phase and allocate them to vessels. Available voyages and vessels are:
Scheduled (Unallocated)
Scheduled (Allocated)
Nominated
"Schedulable" in the vessel master data
FleetExitDate empty or in the future
Vessels which don't have any voyage in their schedule are not displayed in the open positions board or schedule view. However, they are available to allocate and move to in the voyage drawer, and to create scenarios with them.
Master and Scenario
We distinguish between the master schedule and scenarios.
The master schedule shows the current plan for the fleet and commitments. It is directly linked to the rest of the VMS.
Scenarios help the scheduler to evaluate different options when scheduling. Scenarios are independet from other VMS modules. In the scenario list you find all scenarios, edit them and create new ones. You use the scenario details view to allocate and unallocate voyages in a scenario.
For master and scenarios we have two different views available: the open positions board and the gantt board (schedule view).
The following actions can be performed with a voyage:
Actions that are only available for Master and not in Scenario are marked with (just Master).
allocate and unallocate a voyage (not in the schedule view)
edit voyage reference
nominate voyage and cancel its nomination (just Master)
allocate and unallocate voyage (just Master)
move voyage (just Master)
view audit log
access and upload voyage attachments
Nominating a voyage will make it appear in the Operations module of the VMS.
Change the (target) lay and can dates for the first load port.
If no performance cargo is selected, the cargo of largest quantity is used.
