Question 1

What is Yard Management?

Accepted Answer

Yard Management refers to the process of efficiently controlling and tracking the movement of trucks, trailers, and other assets within the yard area of a warehouse, distribution center, or manufacturing facility. It serves as the bridge between transportation and warehouse operations, ensuring that inbound and outbound shipments flow smoothly without bottlenecks or delays.

Question 2

What are some key components of Yard Management?

Accepted Answer

• Yard visibility
 • Asset tracking 
 • Trailer inventory management
 • Yard driver task management
 • Reporting & analytics

Question 3

What are some key benefits of Yard Management?

Accepted Answer

• Improved visibility & control 
 • Reduction in trailer dwell time – cut idle time, automated alerts
 • Increased Dock & Yard efficiency – reduced dock congestion, prioritized yard tasks, higher productivity/smoother coordination between warehouse & yard
 • Improved on-time performance in shipping & receiving, improved reliability, better manage labor, and tighter adherence to schedules
 • Lower operating costs
 • Enhanced safety & accountability

Question 4

How does myQ Enterprise help with Yard Visibility?

Accepted Answer

• Real-time tracking of trailers and drivers
 • Reduced time wasted searching for misplaced trailers
 • Enhance decision-making with real-time data

Question 5

How does myQ increase efficiency?

Accepted Answer

• Reduced dock congestion
 • Prioritized yard tasks
 • Higher productivity/smoother coordination between the warehouse & yard

Question 6

How does myQ reduce costs?

Accepted Answer

• Reducing detention & demurrage fees by reducing dwell time
 • Less manual coordination & paperwork
 • Optimized yard driver activity (less fuel and less overtime)
 • Reduce idle time by providing visibility to trailer arrivals at the dock
 • Avoid unnecessary trailer rentals (by knowing which are empty & available)

Question 7

How does myQ Yard Management improve communication?

Accepted Answer

• All appointments, check-ins, dock assignments, and trailer locations are updated in real time and visible to everyone
 • myQ automates communications with drivers via their mobile devices.

Question 8

What are today’s yard management challenges?

Accepted Answer

1. Lack of visibility into yard assets – inability to know what’s onsite, which appointments are tied to trailers, or how long they’ve been onsite
   1. myQE provides real-time, digital inventory or trailer location, attributes, and status
   2. Enable quick trailer searches – no more yard walks required!
2. Inefficient gate check-in and check-out – resulting in bottlenecks, long wait times, and manual entry errors
   1. Digitize entry with mobile, SMS, and kiosk check-ins
   2. Secure facilities and reduce costs with driver self-service gate control
   3. Integration with WMS/TMS to validate appointments
   4. Speed up throughput to reduce detention costs
3. Trailer dwell time & congestion – idle trailers take up yard space, rack up detention fees
   1. Task management prioritized trailer moves to minimize idle time
   2.  Automate trailer movement tasks based on loading completion or outbound shipment schedules
   3. Alerts for long dwelling or late trailers
4. Poor coordination between Yard, Warehouse & Transportation – silos lead to miscommunications where a trailer arrives without a dock ready or the warehouse not knowing that a load is ready
   1. Shared visibility across logistics, warehouse & customer/vendor/carrier partners
   2. Integrates with TMS/WMS for synchronized updates
   3. Promotes proactive planning rather than reactive firefighting
5. Inefficient Yard Driver Utilization - Yard jockeys often rely on radio calls or spreadsheets for move requests, leading to wasted time and unnecessary travel.
   1. Digitally dispatch tasks using a mobile app
   2. Easily prioritize and track priority moves
   3. Track yard driver productivity and movement history
   4. Reduce deadhead moves & idle time
6. Manual processes & data entry errors – paper-based or spreadsheet tracking is slow, error-prone, and difficult to extract data or audit 
   1. Automate data capture from video or driver self-serve check-in
   2. Maintain an accurate, time-stamped video or digital record of all yard events
   3. Simplify audits, compliance checks, and reporting 
7. Safety & Security risks – uncontrolled movement in the yard increases risk of accidents, lost assets, or unauthorized access 
   1. Control gate access and trailer movements digitally
   2. Track who has entered, when & why
   3. Reduce congestion & unsafe movement through controlled scheduling

Question 9

Why choose myQ Enterprise over other YMS?

Accepted Answer

1. myQE is not just digital, but IoT enabled. 
2. Integrated IoT Solution – myQ combines connected IoT equipment with intelligent software to both digitize the gate, dock, and yard options, and to eliminate the data entry required of software-only solution. 
   1. Real-time visibility enhances data accuracy without adding to employee workload
   2. IoT equipment records actions ensuring safe and efficient operations
3. End-to-End automation - myQ provides automated end-to-end tracking of trailers, trucks, and assets with from check in to check out.
   1. White glove implementation and customer success ensure site workflows are set up and configured optimally
   2. Native WMS, TMS, & ERP integrations create a unified supply chain view
   3. Intuitive, purpose-built mobile, web, and tablet interfaces that meet users with the right UI for their workflow
4. Actionable Insights - myQ’s IoT approach ensures higher accuracy and provides actionable intelligence not available anywhere else. 
   1. Trailers are routed and tasks are created automatically, based on capacity, availability, and machine learning algorithms
   2. Query any appointment or trailer session from the last day, week, month, or year and trust the results

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Trailer Inventory Management

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Real-time Tracking & Reporting

Analytics That Power Productivity

Yard Management

Trailer Inventory Management

Task Management

Real-time Tracking & Reporting

Analytics That Power Productivity

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