The Yard: Strategical Challenges
In today’s complex supply chains, yards face critical strategic challenges: limited visibility into asset movement, inefficient use of resources leading to congestion, reliance on error-prone manual processes causing operational friction, lack of integrated data hindering proactive decision-making, and significant cost leakage through demurrage, detention fees, and security vulnerabilities.
In today’s intricate supply chains, the yard is no longer a logical afterthought, but a strategic bottleneck or a source of significant competitive advantage. Efficient yard management is mission-critical for seamless flow within your distribution network. However, the reality for many organizations is a yard plagued by inherent challenges that erode efficiency and inflate costs.
What is SMART Yard Logistics
Yard Logistics is a smart management solution that optimizes the movement and storage of goods within your facility. It helps you organize, track, and efficiently manage inventory in warehouses and distribution centres with real-time visibility and automated workflows. By reducing bottlenecks and minimizing handling costs, Yard Logistics speeds up order fulfilment and helps your team work smarter.
It functions as a central integration bridge, seamlessly connecting transportation planning from SAP TM, warehouse execution from SAP EWM, and core business processes from SAP S/4HANA.
What Yard Logistics Proposes
Yard Logistics delivers increased visibility across all yard processes, optimizes resource utilization through faster gate-in and gate-out procedures, and improves efficiency for both internal and external workforce roles. It centralizes data flow into a single database while integrating seamlessly with existing supply chain processes, and enhances service levels through planning, execution, and settlement functionality while reducing security vulnerabilities.
Why Choose Deloitte for SAP Yard Solutions?
As a key implementation partner of SAP Yard Logistics, Deloitte delivers an out-of-the-box, cost-efficient solution that is ready to deploy and built to scale with future needs. Clients benefit from our Center of Excellence expertise, smart budgeting, a project accelerator that shortens IT lead times, and full documentation at delivery.
Stijn Van Hoof
