SAP Yard Logistics (SAP YL) is a solution designed to streamline and optimize yard operations and processes. It automates and simplifies the management of yard resources, such as parking spaces, loading and unloading bays, and equipment, while providing real-time visibility into yard operations. It also helps reduce operational costs, increase efficiency and optimize yard flows.
Why SAP YL?
- Best-in-class functionality: a comprehensive yard management platform combining transportation and warehouse processes via yard flows
- Customizable: can be tailored to meet your specific needs
- Visibility and traceability of shipments
- Manage your yard activities including transport unit movements, gate processes and resource allocations for optimal flows
- Real-time visibility: accurately analyze and report on yard activities, do real-time slot planning with third-party carriers and optimize movements in your yard
- Extensibility and integration: highly integrated with other SAP systems and easy integration with non-SAP systems as well. YL can also be extended with SAP Add-ons and customer-specific functionality.
SAP YL features
The major features of SAP YL provide adaptable yard capabilities and include:
- Appointment scheduling
- Gate in/out management
- Yard dispatching
- Parking lot/space and ramp management
- Resource management
- Yard inventory management
- Shunting process management
- Yard shipment monitoring
Your advantages
Yard management is an important factor for optimizing end-to-end processes from supplier to end customer. It is the connector between the warehouse and the external transportation network. 4flow digital brings you the following benefits with SAP Yard Logistics:
Holistic approach
4flow digital considers your transportation, yard and warehouse processes to enable cross-function alignment
Technology integration
Leverage technology to optimize your yard with 4flow digital’s integration of technology in SAP YL processes
Optimal efficiency
Digital design capabilities and optimizers help you achieve maximum efficiency in managing your yard
Deployment approaches
SAP Digital Supply Chain applications such as SAP YL can be deployed based on your business and technical requirements. Together, we will analyze your goals and design the best deployment approach.
The following deployment possibilities exist:
- On-premise
- Private cloud via hyperscaler
- Public cloud via hyperscaler
- Hybrid
- Private and public SAP Cloud
Partnership with SAP
4flow is an SAP Silver Partner and has SAP Recognized Expertise in the area of supply chain planning and logistics.
Any questions or looking for additional insights?
- Download application-specific one-pagers showing how we support you design and implement SAP-based supply chain solutions
- Access our on-demand webinar recordings on most common use cases
Jarrett Leesch
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