The Call Forward Programme area is used to manage the scheduling of trades and suppliers as the job progresses through the construction work flow. It is considered the main feature of Framework Logistics Tablet.
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Dates within the call forward may be manually forecasted, which gives a more accurate representation of when the supervisor believes activities are going to be started/completed onsite. Although best possible forecasting takes into account actual complete dates on other activities, unforeseen circumstances such as troubles with tradesman, suppliers, weather, may all affect activity completion onsite. By manually forecasting out activities, the office will know when they are likely to be completed.
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For suppliers, in some cases, you may wish to acknowledge that a revised date has been confirmed without sending a new notification to a supplier. In this case, the 'Supplier Start/Approved?' field can be used.
| Colour | Description |
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| Green | Dates shown this colour when the forecast date is after today, i.e. in the future and not overdue. |
| Red | Dates shown this colour when the forecast date is today, or before today's date. |
| Blue | Shown when a supplier start/approved date is entered. Date in manual forecast start will show as red (in lieu of blue) when the supplier start/approved date is equal to or less than today's date. |
Scheduling
Call Forward scheduling is a feature of Logistics tablet whereby when an activity has it's called for date changed, it's descendant activities are rescheduled accordingly by the same number of working days. E.g if the parent activity has it's called for bumped by 3 working days, then all descendant activities will also have their called for dates bumped by the same number of working days, though they may be on different dates.
To use this feature, modify the called for date for a parent activity via the Call Forward dialog. You will be prompted whether you want to reschedule the descendant activities. A logistics item comment with the change is added for any descendants that are bumped.
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| Only activities without SupplierConnect notifications are re-scheduled. |
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