Prepare your logistics for the future with integrated yard management

Run more efficient, profitable, and sustainable supply chain logistics by using the SAP Yard Logistics application to maximize your visibility into your yard processes and preview planned workloads with a range of visualization and reporting tools.

• Cloud deployment
• Integrated, comprehensive yard logistics management
• Real-time visibility into order status
• Support for connected devices in the yard

Key benefits

Improve visibility into your processes

Get products and services to market faster and improve customer service by identifying, avoiding, and solving potential issues with greater insight and control.

Accelerate gate-in and gate-out processes

Achieve a significant reduction in processing time and staffing needs by supporting capabilities for executing activities faster and increasing yard throughput.

Use assets and areas more efficiently

Increase the productivity of your existing equipment – such as shag trucks and shunting locomotives – to lower your overall need for additional resources.

Key features

Order and appointment planning and check-in

• Improve resource use to reduce idle time and avoid intermediate storage and wasteful movement
• Plan incoming and outgoing transport with more system support and collaboration with carriers
• Manage gate-in and gate-out processes more efficiently with integrated and automated processes

Yard execution and processing

• Deliver products and services faster and improve customer service with visibility and control
• Accelerate activity execution to increase the throughput of the yard
• Manage processes and employees efficiently with mobile and comprehensive planning capabilities

Integration capabilities and monitoring

• Use comprehensive graphical monitoring to identify, avoid, and solve potential issues with insight
• Manage processes by integrating supply chain management software in the cloud
• Reduce manual efforts in yard operations with automated capture and analysis of high-quality data

Improvements in usability

• Allow the assignment of multiple handling resources to a single user to facilitate yard task operation
• Avoid duplicate driver registrations to use fewer system resources
• Help drivers find their driver ID using enhanced driver search functionality