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Name: Yard Management Module
Target Market: All Industry Verticals
Functional Area: Warehouse and Yard Management Products
Short Description: Configurable RF-based solution for managing inbound and outbound rail and vehicle movements, and tracking of demurrage and rail switch charges.
Application Description: Coordinating truck and railcar movements within a facility is essential to minimize double handling, reduce demurrage and switching charges, and to ensure timely receipt and shipment of materials. This application is a complete, end-to-end, RF-based solution for efficiently processing inbound, outbound, and transfer movements of vehicles and railcars. This solution was developed by a long time, savvy SAP customer, whose yearly transportation spend is among the top ten in the US. The application includes six complex RF transactions, which are posted using IDOC’s, are provided to cover the possible movements. Additionally, a dock status report is provide to aid the planners in assigning trucks and railcars to loading/unloading points. Two transactions for maintaining the demurrage calculation rules and rail switch rules are also included. A report to calculate demurrage and rail switch charges that are owed to the railroad or trucking company, based on the calculation rules and actual yard movements, is also provided.
Price: Available upon request
Yearly Maintenance: None
Support: Standard support included in the price
- Six Complex RF transactions for managing moves in and within the yard:
- Receive Vehicle
- Assign Vehicle to Staging Area
- Delete Vehicle
- Move Vehicle – One Step
- Move Vehicle – Two Step
- Vehicle Status
- Configurable Demurrage and Rail Switch Charge rate tables
- Reports to calculate demurrage and rail switch charges in real-time.
- Dock Status Report for managing assignment to dock doors
- Superior Value – This product satisfies all of the requirements of a yard management solution at a substantially lower price than competing solutions.
- Higher Operational Efficiency – The RF transactions simplify the processing of inbound and on-site movements, thus increasing the operational efficiency.
- Improved Quality – By combining multiple standard SAP transaction into individual RF transactions, the likelihood of errors is dramatically reduced.
- Lower Penalty Cost – The demurrage and rail switch costs are lower because of better visibility and more active management.
- Better Planning – The reporting capabilities result in improved planning of the dock doors and loading points.
- Rich Feature Set – This tightly integrated solution has been in a productive environment for over five years.
- No Yearly Maintenance Fees – There is no yearly maintenance fee for the product.
- Enhancement Packages – Enhancements, based upon customer feedback, are provided to existing customers free-of-charge.
- Product Improvement Requests (PIR) – Customers can request product improves, and if those are deemed to increase the value of the product, they are delivered free-of-charge. Customer-specific enhancements can be provided on a time and materials basis.
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