Yard Management

 

A warehouse usually has - Parking Yard and Dock Doors. Yard will have Rows and Each Row has some defined number of slots. Container will first be placed in the Yard slot. Users at warehouse will pull the container from Yard Slot to Door for unloading. Usually, responsibility of the carrier is to bring the container from port to yard. To move a container from Port to Yard – we can have a custom container ranking algorithm based on certain parameters (like PO priority, delivery dates, etc.)  to give ranking to containers. Users at warehouse can use this rank to identify what containers they need to pull to the door at the earliest.

Once the shipment/container is in the yard slot, next step is to assign shipment to a door where loading/unloading happens. This step is called scheduling an appointment. Door will have time slots (30 min slot etc.) for loading or unloading activity that can be configured on the location resource.

Depending on the requirement, the Drayage carrier should be notified once the appointment is made in the system for a specific container. This is usually done by sending a tender offer EDI 204 file with expected delivery time and other details like Yard/Door No. Fpr example, EDI 204 can be triggered based on status update events from Ocean carrier like ‘Available for Delivery’ etc.

Below are the OTM location resource level configurations to define the yard:

Once location resource level yard is defined, you can use custom logic to select shipments that are eligible to be displayed in the yard using business rules. For example, shipments/containers that are unloaded at destination port can be made visible in the yard. In this example, yard can be virtual yard just to give warehouse users visibility on what containers they can expect in coming days.Also, high priority shipments can be assigned to first rows and slots so that warehouse users can pull shipments for appointment scheduling from left to right and bottom down approach on the yard manager screen.

Using all this custom logic, insert entries in Yard table as shown below:

Once shipments are inserted into yard table, we can see them in UI with below navigation:

Operational Planning > Appointment Management > Dock and Yard Managers > Query location > Actions > Manage Yard

In the above screen, display text on shipments can be configured using glog property below (second one):