Intelligent control of goods and transport flows for efficient and transparent yard logistics

INTRANAV Yard Management solution ensures efficient handling of your yard logistics.

What does digital Yard Management mean? With the help of INTRANAV’s IIoT platform and its digital twin, your previous process flows and interactions with existing WMS/ERP systems such as SAP are brought to a “virtualized level” and intelligently automated there with the help of this new data level.

With INTRANAV, you monitor, control and manage the entire clearance process, from goods receipt to goods issue, including the complex loading and unloading traffic at the loading bays, via the INTRANAV RTLS IoT platform. Authorization steps that were previously performed manually, e.g. via physical logistics terminals on site, as well as the entire yard communication, ramp access control including ramp allocation, take place with INTRANAV through virtual networking and location tracking of the vehicles as a digitized and interlocking plant logistics process.

INTRANAV Yard Management solution coordinates and controls all movements of internal transport vehicles and ensures efficient and resource-optimized plant logistics thanks to real-time optimized handling processes and parking space information on the plant premises. With INTRANAV, you benefit from shorter throughput and waiting times as well as increased transport and goods throughput, thereby reducing costs and increasing the productivity of the entire logistics operation.

Optimization potentials of your yard logistics

• Digital access control at gates

  

  Acceleration of truck handling at check-in and check-out

  Authorized access/exit through outdoor location technology or camera / sensor-based systems

• Reduction of dwell times in the yard

  

  Traffic jams and queues avoidance

  The digital navigation to the correct ramp or to the buffer stations avoids misdirection within yard handling

• Efficient yard logistics planning

  

  Yard traffic and parking space utilization optimization in terms of lean logistics

  Integration of historical site data into yard infrastructure data in order to identify and optimize weak points. Tracking of throughput times in the individual stages and archiving the digitized yard processes enables resource-efficient planning of yard logistics

• Quality assurance goods outbound: goods delivery to the right ramp

  

  Avoidance of incorrect truck loading and high cost returns

  INTRANAV.IO checks by SAP system matching if the goods have been delivered to the correct ramp

   

   

• Leveled and efficient ramp handling

  

  Increased transport throughput

  Virtual real-time control station of ramp occupancy enables flexible and consistent ramp dispatching

• Digital control up to the ramp

  

  Simplified yard supply process through the digitization of instructions

  Digital safety instruction, digital driver instruction, and digital quality management reduce the workload of gatekeepers

Digital Yard Management –
Efficient control of processes in yard traffic

• Process overview
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• Virtual Yard & Dock:

   

  The INTRANAV.IO RTLS platform maps the real-time status based on real-time location data of vehicles in the yard, including ramp and parking lot occupancy as a digital twin. The location of the transport vehicles is tracked in real-time from entry to exit, via INTRANAV.RTLS outdoor tracking technology (GPS, GPS precise, RFID) or integrated telematics modules in the vehicles.

   

  Virtualization of the entire transport flows in the yard enables efficient, transparent monitoring and control of delivery traffic, including compliance with all delivery windows as well as safety and quality standards.

   

  Through the connection to higher-level logistics terminal systems, enabling a time-controlled occupancy of the respective ramp slots. The gatekeeper manages the entrance and truck parking areas of the plant site via the digital twin of the yard.

   

  Virtual zones (geofences) trigger processing steps as soon as a vehicle enters a defined zone thus enabling the automatic control of many manual workflows based on the real-time location of the vehicles or goods at the ramp. These include, for example, Authorized gate opening, information communication via SMS to the truck driver for yard entry authorization, notification for truck dispatch in logistics, email notification to the shipping company informing them that the goods are leaving the yard, and much more.

  

• Entry processing:
  Automatic check-in, check-out, and gate opening for authorized vehicles

   

  The registration of the vehicle is made in advance by the shipping company via plant logistics systems. As soon as the truck arrives at the yard, INTRANAV.IO identifies the authorized vehicle with the reserved ramp slot via outdoor positioning technology or camera/sensor-based technology. The usual manual registration steps, such as registration at physical logistics terminals on-site, are no longer necessary. The gate opens as soon as the authorized vehicle enters the gate zone.

   

  ➜ All relevant departments are informed simultaneously about the arrival at the yard, allowing preparing actions to be taken in advance
  ➜ Relief for personnel at the terminal
  ➜ Enables and promotes autonomous yard operation

   

   

  Safety instruction
  Safety instruction is provided, for example, through a video sent to the driver via email link. This also involves site-specific traffic rules.

   

  Driver instructions
  Via INTRANAV.IO, the driver receives information about the intended handling steps in the yard via smart device.

   

  Quality management
  In case the driver is leaving the predefined steps or traffic zones, the driver, as well as the responsible personnel, are informed, which allows quick correction of false actions and avoids delays.

  

• Leveled and efficient ramp distribution:

   

  The INTRANAV.IO RTLS platform virtualizes in real time all tracking information of the transport vehicles and load carriers on the yard. As a yard manager, you use the INTRANAV real-time control station to track all transport movements and, in the event of time or logistical deviations, you can coordinate ramp allocation using the available ramp spaces, while considering the shortest routes for logistics. Also, parking spaces can be flexibly coordinated depending on the utilization situation.

  The VIRTUAL Yard Manager supports you in the coordinated handling of the storage and retrieval processes, avoiding long truck dwell times and enabling fast and efficient handling of goods and transport.

   

  ➜ Avoidance and reduction of traffic jams, as well as long waiting and dwell times for trucks.
  ➜ Fast, time-efficient yard handling
  ➜ Increase in transport and goods throughput
  ➜ Flexible ramp handling in case of deviations

   

  

• Notification of plant entry and control to the right ramp:

   

  Approval for yard entry
  The driver receives an SMS notification as soon as the authorization to enter the plant has been issued.

   

  Steering to the correct ramp
  To ensure the correct routing to the ramps, INTRANAV supports quick navigation of the driver by displaying the position of the truck via the INTRANAV live map of the yard via tablet or mobile device. By linking to SAP, the designated ramp is assigned to the driver, who navigates on the shortest route.

   

  ➜ Fast yard navigation
  ➜ Collision avoidance through real-time indication of all vehicles in the yard

  

• Goods outbound control in the warehouse in interaction with loading and unloading of trucks:

   

  Virtual goods outbound control
  Through virtual zones (geofences) at the ramp, the last warehousing step is checked to ensure the goods have been transported to the correct gate. If this is not the case, alerts are triggered via the INTRANAV.IO platform so that the incorrect provision of goods can be corrected before the goods leave the warehouse.
  
  ➜ Ensures correct operation allocation
  ➜ Incorrect loading and costly returns avoidance
  

   

  Loading and unloading
  The real-time location information of the truck is provided to responsible logistics staff to control the handling on site.

  As soon as the truck leaves the ramp/loading station, further processing steps such as navigation to the exit are activated.

  The shipping company receives an email notification as soon as the truck leaves the loading zone for further freight tracking.

  Loading and unloading beginning and end are recorded via time stamp in ERP/INTRANAV.IO.

   

  ➜ Fast loading and unloading times, due to timely staging of the goods at the ramp.
  ➜ Improved throughput time
  ➜ Quality compliance (goods to the correct ramp)
  ➜ Real-time data capture enables data-driven analyses to optimize ramp utilization planning

  

• Checkout handling:

   

  Final check of the relevant points via digital checklist:
  Check possibility for driver – Has the documentation been completed (delivery bill, customs documents, etc.)? Has the load been secured? And further optionally editable checkpoints.

   

  Notification for permission to leave the yard
  The driver receives an SMS notification after completion of the documentation, giving the approval to leave the site.

   

  Automatic gate activation at departure
  INTRANAV receives the process clearance of the respective truck from the SAP system, which approves drivers for the check-out. Once the vehicle has been authorized for its departure, no waiting time is required at the exit gate. The gate opens automatically when the vehicle enters the departure zone.

   

  ➜ Avoidance of congestion and waiting times
  ➜ Virtual documentation with timestamp of departure from the plant
  ➜ Only authorized vehicles leave the yard
  ➜ Relief of the gatekeeper personnel

  

Seamless RTLS IoT integration into existing industrial logistics systems

By the integration of INTRANAV into industrial logistics systems, you will continuously work with one logistics system. Our seamless integration approach allows your company to seamlessly integrate INTRANAV, eliminating the need to jump between multiple software systems.

Special RTLS components for outdoor use

• GPS

  GPS technology allows you to track transport vehicles, goods and load carriers in the yard, field, city and international routes with a positioning accuracy of between 5 and 20 meters. Alerts ensure quick supply chain corrections, e.g. in case of deviations from target values. Route deviations can be prevented and better planned. Theft risks or incorrect loading are prevented by alerts, and traveled routes can be analyzed and optimized. In addition, GPS tracking increases the risk of accidents for employees in outdoor areas, providing warning notifications when unauthorized areas are entered or if collision risks arise.

• GPS Precise – High precision outdoor positioning technology

  The combination of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) such as BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS and GPS allows high-precision position determination in outdoor areas using real-time kinematics (RTK) technology. With RTK technology, the receiver measures the phase of the carrier wave of the satellite signal. The carrier interference that occurs in the process, must be corrected using base stations for precise measurements, which in field applications is associated with very high costs.

  ➜ INTRANAV offers the next level of scalable GNSS high precision technology with “GPS Precise”. With ” GPS Precise”, outdoor location in the range of centimeters is possible. The key scaling factor is that INTRANAV does not need a base station for the measurement, instead, the necessary correction data is determined by the INTRANAV.IO platform from the mobile network.

• Coupling to telematic modules

  Telematics modules are often already installed in transport vehicles. The positioning data is received via the global localization standard GPS

  INTRANAV enables the connection of the telematics modules to the INTRANAV RTLS platform, whereby the location data is digitized and can be monitored and managed via the digital real-time control panel (Digital Twin).

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