Overview

This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:

(1) The ability to evaluate the performance of the Freight Transport Operation at the request of the Freight Management Operator, using data obtained from the store of consignment data.
(2) In particular the ability to evaluate the cost of any delays in the completion of the Freight Transport Operation.
(3) A HMI through which the Freight Management Operator can request and receive output of the results from the evaluation of the performance of the Freight Transport Operation.
(4) The HMI shall have the ability to send requests to the Freight Management Operator to provide data required to complete the evaluation, but which is missing from that available from the store of consignment data and to collect the data provided by the Operator so that it can be used in the evaluation process.

Functional Requirements

(a) when the request performance evaluation data flow is received, the command that it contains shall be decoded and the scope of the required evaluation determined
(b) the Function shall read the data needed for the report from the store of Consignment Data
(c) if during the course of (b) the required data is not found, this shall be reported to the Freight Management Operator using the additional data needed for evaluation data flow
(d) the valid data that is retrieved as a result of (b) shall be used to produced the requested evaluation report, highlighting the cost of any delays to the delivery of the freight
(e) when (d) is complete, the evaluation report shall be output to the Freight Operator using the performance evaluation result data flow
(f) if the data flow in (a) in not received within a configurable length of time (typically hours, days or weeks), the Function shall perform steps (b) to (e) above for all information about freight shipments that is currently held in the store of Consignment Data.

Diagrams

Parent Higher Level Function

• 8.1 Manage Logistics and Freight

Input logical dataflows

• fo.fro-additional_evaluation_data
• fo.fro-request_performance_evaluation
• mffo_read_consignment_evaluation_data

Output logical dataflows

• mffo_load_consignment_evaluation_data
• to.fro-additional_data_needed_for_evaluation
• to.fro-performance_evaluation_result

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