Key benefits of Advance Yard Manager
Vehnet Advanced Yard Management not only takes care of operational requirements, it also delivers tactical and strategic benefits. For example, the ability to instantly propose the optimal sequence of operations, taking account of your business objectives, the spatial realities of the site, the skills, availability of your human and yard resources. This is just one way in which Advanced Yard Manager is a step ahead of other solutions.
Our customers typically report tangible saving in the range of 15% to 20% or more. To find out how, see our customer case study.
Visibility Enabled
The Vehnet concept is to extend visibility both of the yard and to the yard, wherever possible. For inbound flows, the yard benefits from advanced bookings so that labour and resources can be planned and optimised. The advantage for carriers is the ability to book a convenient, time-saving slot. For outbound flows, the requirements for transport can be published, so that carrier arrival and dock allocations are synchronised. Eliminating waste saves money and a well organised yard delivers a win-win to all parties.
Workflow-Centric
The Advance Workflow Engine is at the heart of the Advance Yard Manager, hosting your best-practice business process and rules. The Workflow Engine monitors the state of all entities in play, such as the dock and yard locations, the tugs, yard and dock personnel. It then applies your business rules and optimisation settings to perform prescribed actions automatically.
The Workflow Engine is totally adaptable to your specific business. It will guide your operations for consistent results, while being sufficiently agile to change with business needs.
Integration Ready
Visibility from and to the supply chain can only be delivered using a reliable and competent integration engine, which is cost-effective to use. Vehnet's Integration Manager module is responsible for this and can send and receive text based information such as fixed length, CSV and XML messages, as well as servicing and consuming web services. Reliable techniques such as MSMQ ensure delivery of information.
Vehnet Advanced Yard Manager comes with open interfaces for gates, barriers, cameras, RTLS (real-time location RFID), RFID and GPS.
Mobile Aware
Real-time connectivity to the Advance Yard Manager is vital to efficient operations. Our reliable, ergonomic Mobile Manager module takes care of tasks such as receiving, picking, placing, stripping & stuffing, consolidating, recording damages, status monitoring and exiting. An almost endless list of tasks can be achieved through these adaptable mobile tools. Support for mobile equipment over wireless LAN and mobile phone networks is standard as is integration with GPS for real-time locating of personnel, assets and equipment.
Business Adaptive
Adaptive technology sets Vehnet apart and is one of the most valued attributes of our software. A rich set of tools or ‘Builder’s is used by our technicians, or your own trained team, to rapidly create a precise fit to your business needs. We have assimilated years of experience of best-practice into our Advance Yard Management pre-configured modules to provide a ready-to-finish solution, exactly tailored to your needs. This approach avoids the need to compromise which more rigid ‘package’ solutions impose, or the delay and unpredictability of ‘bespoke’ software development.
We never develop software for one customer only – we continue to develop new functions, based on customer demand and market trends, that can be used by all our customers
On-time, On-budget Deployment
A secure, robust, on-time and on-budget deployment is essential, yet research shows that vendors are often poorly organised to deliver the required standard of care. In contrast, the Vehnet team has a proven track record of taking care of project details and working professionally to meet your expectations, using a structured implementation methodology.
For more information about how the Advance Yard Manager could benefit your business, call +44 (0)1924 844444 or contact us by email.