How to Get the Most Out of Your YMS Reports to Drive Continuous Improvement
Reporting and KPI’s are an essential part of running a business. It helps you remain abreast of everchanging situations, mitigate potential risks, and stay one step ahead. One thing to note—no matter the situation you’re in- you should never need to handle reporting alone. An efficient full-scale yard management system oversees a business’s reporting and accelerates its growth and operations efficiency. Let’s discover the importance of reporting and how it can add to your yard management.
General Yard Management Reporting
Implementing a full-scale YMS solution will not only resolve manual reporting processes but streamline ways to better track and report on daily operations, whether occasionally or at scheduled times and days. Examples of manual processes include tackling daily tasks including check-in/check-out appointments at the gate, dock management, trailer spotting, and inventory tracking.
What Does a Typical YMS Report Look Like?
With any logistics operation, reporting and analytics tools help operations identify potential issues and implement solutions to continuously improve processes. With an efficient yard management system, it provides in-depth reporting that boosts efficiency within the yard.
Growth is Essential for Your Yard Operations
YMS reporting is simple. When implemented properly, it can drastically improve your yard operations. Here’s how utilizing the analytics you receive from a YMS report can help improve many aspects directly in yard operations. Let’s dive deeper.
- Loading and Unloading trailers: Tracking shipments that are coming in and going out will ensure freight is misplaced or lost in the yard.
- Scheduling check-in/drop-off/pick-ups: Automating carrier appointments will keep everything in one centralized location as well as provide carrier performance metrics..
- Transferring inventory: Losing inventory can cause major problems, and the only way to find a way out of amaze of misplaced inventory into an organized, automated reporting system.
- Gate management: Data gathered at the gate is critical to improve throughput and accuracy.
- Helping reduce detention and demurrage fees: Tracking and keeping track of inventory will drastically reduce and allow you to better manage detention and demurrage fees.
- Eliminate spoilage in the yard: With efficient reporting, reefer units can be properly managed.
- Improving labor management: Utilizing an efficient YMS can offset any labor challenge and supply chain constraint that affect delivery times.
Growth is Essential for Your Yard Operations
Who doesn’t want to watch their business grow? Sharing KPI’s and reporting information/data will help your yard flourish across all avenues, including financial, employee development, preferred carrier status, site activities and narrow competition in the market. Based on your reporting information, you’ll see the advantages a YMS can produce.