Reports & Documentation
Chapter 3 — Activity Reports

Truck traffic

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LESSON INFO

Audience

  • Warehouse operators reviewing items that fully moved through the facility.
  • Operations managers analyzing throughput and mode conversion.
  • Billing staff verifying completed “in and out” handling eligibility.

Prerequisites

  • You can access the Themis-Trace web app.
  • Your role can access Reports and view the target customer.
  • You understand that this report is ship-date-driven and includes only items with finalized receives and finalized ships.

Skills you’ll build

  • Run a throughput (movement) report for a period.
  • Read the mode split sections (Truck→Truck, Truck→Rail, Rail→Truck).
  • Trace a single item’s inbound and outbound documents from one row.

LESSON OUTLINE

Concept

  • Truck Traffic is a movement report.
    • Every row represents one item that both arrived and departed.
  • The date range is based on ship date.
  • The report is grouped into three sections based on receiving vs shipping mode:
    • Truck→Truck
      • The item was received by truck and shipped by truck.
    • Truck→Rail
      • The item was received by truck and shipped by rail.
    • Rail→Truck
      • The item was received by rail and shipped by truck.

Run Truck Traffic

  1. Open Reports.
  2. Select Truck Traffic.
  3. In the parameter form:
    • Set Start date and End date (ship-date window).
    • Select the Customer.
    • Select the Time Zone in which timestamps are displayed.
      • This parameter is set to Central Standard Time (CT) by default.
    • Set Facility and/or Product Type filters.
  4. Run the report to load the embedded report.

Review output

  1. Review each mode section that applies to your facility’s operation.
  2. For an item-level investigation, use the row to capture:
    • receiving BOL
    • receiving date
    • shipping BOL
    • shipping date

Export the output

  1. In the embedded report toolbar, select File.
  2. Select Export.
  3. Select Excel (or another format as needed).
  4. Save the exported file.

Safe edits

  • If an expected item is missing, confirm the shipment is completed and a shipping BOL is present before assuming a data quality issue.

Verification

  • Each row has both a receiving reference and a shipping reference.
  • Mode sections align with the item’s recorded receiving vs shipping transport modes.

COMMON QUESTIONS

    • Likely cause

      • Shipment was not completed or is missing required identifiers (ship date/BOL).

    • Checks

      • Spot-check the shipping record for ship date and BOL.

    • Fix

      • Finalize/correct shipping data per process, then rerun.

    • Likely cause

      • Outbound transport mode was recorded as Truck.

    • Checks

      • Verify the shipping order transport mode.

    • Fix

      • Correct outbound transport mode, then rerun.

    • Likely cause

      • The report shows current values at time of shipment; processing workflows may have updated item attributes.

    • Checks

      • Confirm whether the the item has had its properties updated during its time on-hand.

    • Fix

      • Investigate item history/audit log if the change is unexpected.