Lowered costs, improved inventory visibility, improved order fulfillment
As leading companies look beyond the warehouse for ways to improve operational performance, yard management is being recognized as the source of new opportunities to lower costs and improve order fulfillment.
Sterling Yard Management reduces detention charges, improves inventory visibility and eliminates spoiled inventory. Integration with Sterling Transportation Management System applications allows you to coordinate trailer and dock appointments, direct carrier detention charges and manage trailer inventory in conjunction with order fulfillment requirements.
Working in concert across applications, the “Yard” is now visible to the rest of the organization, as well as to your carrier community. Here’s how you benefit:
- Improve order fulfillment by having visibility into inventory inside trailers parked in your yard. The knowledge of what inventory you have inside your yard trailers complements warehouse management system inventory, helping you make informed decisions about what orders you can ship when, based on available inventory.
- Lower operational costs by having more control over yard operations. Both yard jockeys and supervisors have visibility to trailer specific inventory, allowing you to prioritize yard movements and avoid time searching for the right trailer. By monitoring trailer aging, temperatures and fuel levels you avoid detention charges and inventory spoilage.
- Synchronize trailer management across internal organizations and your carrier network. Integration with Sterling Transportation Management System allows network carriers to schedule dock appointments and assign trailers to loads while giving your own transportation department staff oversight of carrier and yard activities.
A complete solution
Sterling Multi-Channel Fulfillment includes these additional, integrated solutions:
Sterling Order Management – Improve supply chain efficiencies and business responsiveness by orchestrating global order and service fulfillment across your extended enterprise.
Sterling Supply Chain Visibility – Lower inventory, improve operational efficiencies and responsiveness by summarizing inbound supply information in a usable, understandable, and actionable format.
Sterling Transportation Management System – Improve customer service and reduce transportation costs by providing shippers with efficient planning and execution of inbound and outbound processes.
Sterling Warehouse Management System – Reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction for any warehouse configuration by executing complex processes and optimizing inventory and labor.
More information
Sterling Yard Management Capabilities Brief
*Sterling Yard Management is only available in North America at this time.