Yard Management 

Purpose

SAP’s Yard Management (YM) extends warehouse management beyond the physical walls of the warehouse, enabling management and control from the time that goods are planned to arrive at the warehouse.

 

Integration

Logistics Execution (LE)

YM is integrated with Logistics Executionthrough an interface (package LEINT).

Transportation (LE-TRA) and Shipping (LE-SHP)

YM integrates with the LES components for Transportation and Shipping. Shipments and deliveries are an integral part of YM, influencing location scheduling and location determination. Shipments are updated upon completion of check-in, check-out, loading and unloading activities, while deliveries are updated by check-in and scheduling activities. In addition, shipment data, such as forwarding agent, determines the list of possible vehicles that can be assigned in YM to a specific delivery or shipment.

Warehouse Management (LE-WM)

YM is integrated with Warehouse Management (WM). Nevertheless, YM can work without a full WM implementation, as long as certain WM entities, such as doors and staging areas, are defined.

Cross-docking (LE-WM-CDK)

Planned cross-docking information is provided to YM, which influences location scheduling and location determination. In addition, location scheduling is accessible from Cross-Docking, with the availability of doors and staging areas determining the viability of cross-docking decisions.

 

Features

YMprovides the following features:

Management of Yard Processes

YM enables you to manage the following yard processes:

·        Check-in and check-out of vehicles

·        Scheduling of doors and staging areas for vehicles (manually or based on the system's automatic scheduling mechanism)

·        Creation and execution of movements in the yard (manually or based on the system's location determination mechanism)

·        Creation and execution of operations in the yard, such as weighing and sealing/un-sealing of vehicles

·        Registration of the start and finish of loading and unloading of vehicles (by delivery or for whole vehicle)

Provision of Information to Forwarding Agents

YM provides Business Partners, such as freight forwarders, with information on their vehicles, including time in yard, current location and processing status. This information may be provided either via the ERP system or via the Web.

For more information, see Provision of Yard Inventory Information.

Monitoring and Response Tools

YM enables you to monitor all aspects of yard operations and invoke methods to respond to constantly changing circumstances in the yard.

For more information, see Yard Monitor.

Alert and Troubleshooting Tools

YM provides information on actual and arising problematic situations in the yard, and enables you to handle exceptions.

For more information, see Yard Alert Monitor.

Scheduling Chart

YM enables you to view, manually create and maintain scheduling activities via the yard scheduling chart, a graphical representation of scheduling activities for the yard.

For more information, see Yard Scheduling Chart.

Mobile Presentation

YM allows you to customize the presentation of data to a resource on a variety of presentation devices.

For more information, see Presentation Management.

 

Yard Management Landscape