Project Description
Yard Management in SAP
Efficient control of factory traffic, gate and ramp handling with the yard management of SERKEM.
The SERKEM solution in detail
The yard management helps to monitor and control all vehicle movements. Thereby, it makes the coordinated control of ramp positions and gate handling possible.
With the usage of the yard management you optimize the times and locations for up- and unloading of vehicles. Wait times at the ramps or gates can be avoided and the handling speed will increase. The different processes are automatically registered in the system and you always have the overview over all vehicles, which are actually at the yard.
Especially companies with a big company site, huge delivery traffic, much loading points or multiple locations gain from the usage of the yard management. In combination with our solutions for swap body management and container management the overview and efficiency will be improved.
At a glance
The overview monitor shows all transports (deliveries, pickups, empties processing) so the status of them is apparent at a glance.
New transports can be registered and existing transports can be changed.
During saving new delivery and pickup transports it will be additionally controlled if the transport number is already assigned.
With the help of searching criteria the monitoring of transports can be restricted. Thereby it can be selected due to date, vehicle type, procedure and status.
In the entry monitor all transports are shown which own the status ‘on call’. Over searching criteria the monitoring of transports can be restricted.
During the call of chosen transports the unloading point can be determined, the beeper will be called per mail and documents will be printed.
With the selection criteria the yard management transports can be shown with the belonging purchase document.
The overview of unloading points views the occupancy of unloading places to the respective unloading points. With the traffic light effect it´s clear, if this unloading place is free or occupied.
The overview ‚actual status‘ differentiates between pickup and delivery. All yard management transports are shown summarized with the unloading point and with the status ‘receipted’ or ‘departure’.
Blocked stocks will be determined and controlled, if the blocked stocks really exist.
In this case they will be posted in the free usable stock.
At marked with a cross test cases the repostings were just simulated.
During acknowledging over scanner, the scan process is initiated and a data set is created. The status of the chosen transport will be set to ‘departure’.
Thereby it will be controlled if the transport has the status ‘entry’ and at pickups if all unloading points are acknowledged. Otherwise the next unloading point will be determined and the status stays on ‘entry’.
Additionally, at unloading points with automated demand the next transport on call will be requested.
Scan processes also can be manually triggered.
The registry receipt will be printed automatically during every registration of a delivery, pickup or empties processing.
The entry document will be automatically printed when a transport receives the status ‘requested’. For every yard management transport the freight data document will be created and the entry document will be printed per unloading point.
The freight data receipt is in the transport available for printing.
The goods receipt collective document is automatically printed after the posting with the transaction at the exit of the transaction. Per plant and supplier the changeover will be executed. At the collective document there will be printed the packing material and weight from the freight data document, general data of the supplier and the purchaser group.
At position level the material documents, delivery note number, material number and indication, posted amount, current amount for manual entries, amount unit, packaging instructions, skiplot, inspection lot, batch, storage place and comments will be printed.
- Building of controllable worklists for underground planings and priorizations
- Pass through of status chain with coupling of follow-up functions
- Automatization of parallel and follow-up steps in the total run of transportation processing
- Usage of SAP standard objects with defined extensions
- Integration of notification systems in SAP for a focused control of vehicle entries over SAP standard interfaces (e.g. for integration of pager systems for truck calls from temporary truck unloading places in front of the yard)
- Reporting possibilities / measuring of process times
- Own layout for every status with set/change of individual status with time stamps
- Authorization control for individual functions
The yard management in SAP makes a transparent, efficient and reliable control of factory traffic possible.
- Efficient processing of incoming and outgoing truck transports through entry and departure control of truck traffic
- Gapless documentation of the whole factory traffic in SAP
- Monitoring of all trucks which are located in the yard
- Increase of handling speed, avoiding of wait times
- Monitoring of all transports for the chosen location in dependence of different selection criteria
- Control and reporting functions as well as statistics, e.g. provisional appointment, route planning, yard retention time, time differences between entry and end of loading
- Printing and pre-shipment of documents like yard control receipt, weigh protocol, loading list etc.
- Scale integration with traffic light display of overloading
- Development completely in SAP
- Determination of entry/departure weight over electronic scale with monitoring at truck overload
- Provisional appointment: already known route dates for route planning can be registered in advance and used for control and reporting purposes
- Load list can be sent in advance per mail to the forwarder
- Data collection for vehicles with entry of motor vehicle number, weight determination and set status
- Assignment of loading track and creation of transportation orders: monitoring of loading track at the beeper
- Documents like yard control receipt, weigh protocol, loading list, etc can be printed
- Calculation of different time differences with award of the reason at too big differences
- Preset of values for registration from proposal table
- Extensive statistics (yard residence time etc)
- Registration oft rucks and transportation goods at entry and departure
- Monitoring of all trucks which are located in the yard
- Entry of route and beeper number according to trucks
- Extension of the list with gate number
- Beeper integration through SAP Phone
- Selection possibilities over entries and departures within a period of time
- Comparison with announced transports/orders in the SAP ERP system
- Optional acknowledgment over barcode solution, manual confirmation or coupled to the handling in shipment
Extract from our References
Holsten (Carlsberg A/S Group)
- Brewery
- Turnover: 8.8 Mrd. €
- Employee: 47.000 (2015)
ZF Friedrichshafen AG:
- Automotive industry
- Turnover: 16,8 Mrd. €
- Employee: 72.643
