What is dock and yard management?
Ensuring customer satisfaction is the top priority for any profit-oriented company. In order to achieve this goal, the optimal coordination of all logistical processes is of crucial importance and every company is interested in reducing costs. The construction of large goods distribution centers has emerged as the way forward, particularly for large shipping and retail companies. Due to increased transport volumes, the goods distribution centers have set themselves the task of making the flow of traffic on the factory premises as efficient as possible. This is where dock and yard management comes in, as it provides all the data that is important for planning, implementing and controlling processes on a factory site.
Dock management refers to the coordination of activities at the loading ramp, including incoming and outgoing goods and the handling of arriving and departing trucks at the loading ramps. Yard management controls all activities on the factory premises. This includes both third-party vehicles and the company's own vehicles. Yard management collects and evaluates all information on the vehicles on the factory premises.
Objectives of dock and yard management:
- Optimized logistics processes
- Efficient loading
- Reduction of dwell and waiting times for trucks on the factory premises
- Increasing transparency
- Real-time information of the processes
If all resources are optimally utilized, this saves costs and increases the productivity and quality of the entire logistics system. With dock and yard management, information can be made available in real time, thus ensuring efficient coordination of all logistical processes.
