To learn more about Dollar General’s appointment scheduling process, visit the Supplier and Carrier Webinar Event presentation and Webinar recording.

Auto Scheduling eliminates the scheduling step in One Network enabling Suppliers and Carriers to instantly secure capacity at Dollar General DCs as POs are created.

For Dollar General Distribution Centers where Auto Scheduling is enabled, you will go into One Network and confirm the appointment provided rather than selecting an appointment.  Please see our training page for Quick Guides and a short video with detail information on how to confirm and reschedule appointments.

You can find a mapping of DCs to Divisions and their expected Go Live dates here: Auto Schedule Rollout by Region by DC by Date

You can find a mapping of DCs to Divisions and their expected Go Live dates here: Auto Schedule Rollout by Region by DC by Date

Please see our Training page for How to Quick guides and a short video for Appointment Management.

Please see our Training page for How to Quick guides and a short video for Appointment Management.

The Appointment will cancel automatically 96 hours prior to deliver time.

The appointment can be rescheduled.  Please see our Training page for How to Quick guides and a short video for Appointment Management.

Appointments need to be confirmed 96 hours prior to the delivery time.

Auto appointments will be created at the same time the PO is created.

In this case, the second PO can be consolidated with the first PO, allowing both POs to share the same appointment. This process mirrors our current procedure for PO consolidation which is found here: Quick Guide to Adding Multiple Shipments to an Appointment

Note: If the POs are all under 900 Cases, the One Network Solution will not Auto Schedule any of them and you can schedule as you currently do.

Currently, the 96-hour window begins from the appointment date and does include weekends and holidays

No change from the process today.

No, this is by design to allow the suppliers to confim.  If the carrier needs to change the appointment, they can reschedule as needed.

Dollar General has a configuration to determine live or drop appointments are permissible at the carrier level. If you have both Live and Drop capabilities the initial appointment will be live but can be adjusted to drop.

The persistence of standing block appointments depends on whether you are a supplier or carrier and should persist unless it is conflict with another appt. If you are a carrier, it will depend on how the standing blocks are configured by Dollar General.

One Network will not replace Dollar General Compass. DG compass will continue to be used in tandem with One Network.

Not at this time.

The Load Due Date that is sent over on the EDI 204 will still be the Due By date the carrier is held to.

Yes

No change.

Yes, Auto Scheduling includes Collect (aka Dollar General Managed) and Prepaid (aka Vendor Managed) Shipments.

Any shipment that is below 900 cases will fall into a bucket that will not be auto scheduled.

Telematics scope includes Prepaid (Vendor Managed) Shipments.

Collect (aka Dollar General managed) shipments are out of scope of Telematics.

PODs are not within the current scope of this Dollar General project although One Network does support this functionality.

Please visit our Telematics Integration page and submit a request through the form.

EDI Telematics Integration – EDI is a direct system-to-system integration that would push shipment location data from your internal systems to One Network

API Telematics Integration – One Network API supports timely and frequent updates from your source system to One Network

Dollar General encourages all Suppliers of Vendor Managed Shipments send data to One Network although not required.

Dollar General and One Network do not have requirements on who sends the data.  One Network can accept the data from the Supplier or direct from their carrier(s).

Yes, for vendor managed shipments, the Carrier or the Supplier will need to send Location tracking in order to view tracking information.
Collect shipments are out of scope for Tracking through One Network

You may register with One Network by going here: Sign Up to Join One Network Enterprises | The Digital Supply Chain Network

Your One Network account administrator can add additional users to One Network.  If you do not know who your admin is, you can reach out to [email protected].

To establish a Dollar General partnership (or connection), please reach out to [email protected] and request a carrier partnership between Dollar General and One Network.

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