To maintain a sustainable competitive advantage in business today, companies should maximize operating efficiency at every stage in the supply chain. Yard and distribution center facilities that are predominantly driven by paper-based systems have a significant opportunity to improve their distribution efficiencies and reduce operating costs.

Effective yard management requires efficient management of gate schedules and dock assignments along with the ability to track, in real-time, the location and status of all vehicles and their associated inventory throughout the yard. Paper-based systems are incapable of providing this type of up-to-date information. Bar-code based systems for yard management may represent a significant improvement over paper-based systems but they too are incapable of providing truly automated, real-time visibility and efficiency as they depend on human intervention for data collection.

Navis Yard Management Solutions set the global standard in asset visibility control and optimization by extending real-time control and management to distribution, manufacturing and service yard operations with proven solutions for real-time dock and yard management. Offering unparalleled capabilities that optimize asset related operations, the Navis Yard Management Suite includes modules for dock and yard management, gate automation and scheduling, enhanced security, enterprise asset visibility, and container tracking. These solutions improve customer support, lower operating costs and increase yard capacity.

Navis Yard Management Suite Includes:

Yard
Navis™ Yard, the industry leading end-to-end yard management system provides automation, control and optimization for gate, yard and dock operations. To learn more about Navis Yard, click here.

Scheduling
Navis™ Scheduling is an advanced web based system for capacity planning and scheduling loads and equipment into a distribution yard. Through a web browser, shippers, truckers and other transportation providers can book appointments into a facility. Then, Navis Scheduling automatically looks at appointments, backhauls, routing plans and real-time equipment status to determine optimal yard capacity. This expedites priority loads, minimizes idle time at the dock, streamlines inbound and outbound flows and increases trailer utilization. To learn more about Navis Scheduling, click here.

Visibility
Navis™ Visibility is a real-time web based visibility tool for viewing the location, status and condition of transportation assets, inventory and resources across supply chain operations. Using a web based interface, users can easily track the location, condition and status of assets and inventory from source to destination effectively "connecting the docks" within the supply chain. To learn more about Navis Visibility, click here.