WanDelay Smart Logistics

WanDelay Smart Logistics combines agentic reasoning, connected-agent delegation, and built-in conversation memory to plan explainable loading assignments from shipment, facility, dock, queue, weather, priority, and arrival information.

It retains shipment, plan, driver, and supporting evidence in conversation context for follow-up decisions without repeating unnecessary data calls or recalculating the assignment.

Agents

• WanDelay Loading Assistant coordinates the driver’s request, gathers operating and weather information, invokes planning skills, presents the loading assignment, answers context-aware follow-up questions, updates queue and ETA information, and generates a one-page driver PDF.
• Dispatch Assistant verifies the outbound shipment, pickup facility, consignee, destination, readiness, driver, and optional Drive Priority Pass tier through its MCP tools.

WanDelay Loading Assistant includes Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot channels for access by authorized carrier drivers and logistics coordinators.

How it works

1. Remember the driver’s preference. An authorized carrier driver asks WanDelay Loading Assistant to remember their Drive Priority Pass, a driver priority benefit. The agent verifies the pass and saves it in built-in conversation memory.
2. Request a loading plan. In a new session, the driver provides the shipment reference and asks for a loading plan. WanDelay Loading Assistant recalls the saved Drive Priority Pass and sends the shipment reference and pass information to Dispatch Assistant, which verifies the shipment, driver, and priority tier. WanDelay Loading Assistant then retrieves current facility, loading-bay availability, queue, and weather information.
3. Create the loading plan. A planning skill combines deterministic queue and ETA calculations with agentic reasoning. It evaluates weather suitability, dock availability and characteristics, queue conditions, arrival timing, and priority information to select the assignment. The explainable plan presents the weather impact, dock assignment, reason for the selection, queue status, ETA, and Drive Priority Pass outcome.
4. Answer follow-up questions from retained evidence. The driver can ask questions such as Will the dock be ready when I arrive? WanDelay Loading Assistant answers from the retained plan. For queue follow-ups, it calculates a real-time estimate of the trucks ahead, remaining wait, and dock-ready time from the original queue snapshot and elapsed time. It does not retrieve another dock snapshot or rebuild the plan.
5. Generate the driver PDF. When requested, WanDelay Loading Assistant creates a compact one-page PDF from the accepted plan without recalculating the assignment.
6. Recall the context later. In a later session, WanDelay Loading Assistant can recall the shipment, plan, driver, and Drive Priority Pass context when the driver asks to review the earlier assignment.

Note: Cross-session recall requires Copilot Studio Memory to be enabled and verified after solution import.

MCP connectors, actions, and skills

• Outbound Shipment Pickup MCP verifies ready outbound shipments and their pickup facilities.
• Drive Priority Pass MCP verifies the driver and returns the exact priority tier.
• WanDelay Loading Bay Pickup MCP provides distribution-center, loading-bay, availability, and queue information.
• MSN Weather - Get current weather and MSN Weather - Get forecast for today provide current and expected weather conditions.
• loading-dock-selector combines agentic reasoning with deterministic queue and ETA calculations to select and explain a loading assignment.
• dock-assignment-pass-pdf creates the one-page driver PDF from the accepted plan without adding facts or recalculating the assignment.

Suggested demonstration

1. Enter Remember that my Drive Priority Pass ID is DRIVE-PASS-1024.

   🧠 [Context Memory] The agent verifies the pass and saves the driver’s Extra Priority Pass information in Memory for use in a later session.

2. 💡 Start a new session and enter I am picking up shipment ORD-10502, and I expect to arrive in 20 minutes.

   🤖 [Agentic Reasoning] Dispatch Assistant verifies the shipment and driver information. The agent retrieves the facility, weather, available loading docks, and queue information. It evaluates weather suitability, dock availability and characteristics, queue conditions, arrival timing, and the verified Priority Pass outcome to select and display an explainable loading plan.

   🧠 [Context Memory] The agent recalls the saved pass without asking for the ID again and uses it to calculate the Priority Pass queue benefit.

3. Enter Why did you choose this dock?

   🧠 [Context Memory] The agent explains how weather, dock characteristics, availability, queue length, distance, and the verified Priority Pass affected the assignment. It reuses the original plan evidence instead of retrieving another dock snapshot.

4. Enter What is my truck queue status, and will the dock be ready before I arrive?

   🤖 [Agentic Reasoning] The agent calculates the current queue from the original observation and elapsed time.

5. 💡 Start another new session and enter What was my last shipment reference?

   🧠 [Context Memory] The agent identifies ORD-10502 as the shipment retained in agentic memory.

6. Enter I am now picking up shipment ORD-10421.

   The agent updates the active shipment while retaining the saved Drive Priority Pass information.

7. Enter Create a new loading plan. I expect to arrive in 20 minutes.

   🤖 [Agentic Reasoning] Dispatch Assistant verifies ORD-10421. The agent retrieves the Anchorage facility, weather, dock availability, and a new queue snapshot. It evaluates weather suitability, dock availability and characteristics, queue conditions, arrival timing, and the retained Extra Priority Pass to select and display a new explainable loading plan.

8. Enter Generate the dock-assignment pass.

   The agent creates a one-page PDF containing the shipment reference, barcode, weather, assignment, explanation, queue, ETA, and Priority Pass outcome without recalculating the assignment.

Test shipments

Users can use the following values for the demo:

Test Drive Priority Passes

Users can use the following values for the demo:

Import and configuration

Download the rebuilt solution ZIP from this page and import it through Power Platform. The package contains the original exploded solution files for WanDelayLoadingBayPickup version 1.0.0.15.

After import:

1. Open Dispatch Assistant.

   • Verify Order Management MCP, confirm that its Connection is active, and under Tool permissions confirm that these tools are visible:
     • Search orders
     • Get order
     • Get shipment
   • Verify Membership MCP v2, confirm that its Connection is active, and under Tool permissions confirm that this tool is visible:
     • Get drive priority pass
   • Verify the points-reconciliation and prorated-refund-calculator skills and their child resources.

2. Save and publish Dispatch Assistant.

3. Open WanDelay Loading Assistant.

   • Verify WanDelay Curb Pickup MCP, confirm that its Connection is active, and under Tool permissions confirm that these tools are visible:
     • Get store location
     • List bays
   • Verify Get current weather and Get forecast for today, and confirm that their MSN Weather Connection is active.
   • Verify the loading-dock-selector and dock-assignment-pass-pdf skills and their child resources.
   • Confirm that Dispatch Assistant is configured as the connected agent.

4. In WanDelay Loading Assistant only, enable Memory and verify that it is enabled.

5. Optionally, add the Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams channels.

6. Save and publish WanDelay Loading Assistant.

7. Follow the instructions in Suggested demonstration.