Increased efficiency for yard operations
Sterling Yard Management optimizes your trailer pool, manages your shipments in and out of your yard, and ensures all inventory in the yard is available for order fulfillment.
Benefits
- Lower operational costs by having more control over yard operations
- Increase supply chain operational efficiencies by reducing errors and optimizing trailer moves
- Fulfill more orders through enhanced visibility into inventory inside trailers parked in your yard
- Improve trailer utilization by managing the trailer pool efficiently
- Avoid inventory write-offs due to spoilage
Sterling Yard Management capabilities
Sterling Yard Management provides complete visibility into the yard for both you and your carrier partners. It prioritizes your tasks and dock door schedules, manages your outbound trailer and carrier assignments, tracks your trailer status and location details, and notifies your carriers of empty trailers that are ready for pickup.
Sterling Yard Management is an on demand solution, offering faster implementations and a lower initial start-up cost compared to traditional on premise applications. These result in a quicker startup, a faster payback period, and the opportunity to roll-out Sterling Yard Management to manage yards previously considered too small.
- Provide real-time visibility to specific yard locations, trailer status and inventory
- Minimize yard jockey time to locate and move trailers and ensure the correct unloading priorities
- Execute yard movements and enable trailers to be checked-in, checked-out and moved within the yard, between parking locations, refueling points, weigh bridges and dock doors
- Efficiently manage trailer pools to reduce unplanned detention charges
- Offer proactive notification and alerts for operations issues, which include late arrival or departure of shipments, and alerts that enable demurrage and detention costs to be avoided
- Provide alerts warning of potential inventory spoilage due to low fuel situations
- Integrate with the Sterling Warehouse Management System and the Sterling Transportation Management System to optimize execution from arrival through to departure
- Optimize cross-docking opportunities
More information
Sterling Yard Management Capabilities Brief
