Combining Visibility in the Yard and Beyond: the Key to Reducing Transportation Costs
Table of Contents:
- Can you improve service levels while reducing transportation costs?
- Benefits for fleet owners and managers
- A smarter end-to-end solution
Shippers face several obstacles in today’s erratic shipping environment, threatened by shifting geopolitical conditions, climate change, and the rising emphasis on meeting safety and compliance regulations. These challenges have resulted in a continually transforming market that demands more than ever from its tech.
As the supply chain industry readies for 2025, combining the right software solutions may be the key to reducing costs for transportation managers.
Can you improve service levels while reducing transportation costs?
Are you paying more in detention fees because trucks are waiting too long to load or unload? How often do your shipments get delayed because trailers aren’t ready when drivers arrive? Does miscommunications between dispatches and yard stuff cause shipment delays because your yard managers are still relying on phone calls and spreadsheets to track truck movements?
Adopting a robust TMS and a YMS bridges the gaps in your workflows because most successful operations cannot have one without the other. The moves you’re making in the yard impact the success of your shipments on the road. A TMS makes sure shipments are planned, tracked, and delivered on time, while a YMS organizes everything happening in the yard—like directing trucks to the right docks and keeping loading areas from getting too crowded. When these systems work together, your business can avoid delays, reduce unnecessary costs, and improve communication between drivers, warehouse staff, and managers. Instead of dealing with manual coordination and guesswork, businesses get real-time visibility into both transportation and yard activities, making it easier to move goods efficiently and keep customers happy.
Kaleris TMS requires no extensive customization to meet the needs of grocery retailers, wholesalers, or distributors, ensuring easy adaptation, helping businesses run a smooth and cost-effective operation.
Benefits for Fleet Owners and Managers
Departure event from last location
Leveraging geo-fencing to trigger early gate-in notifications, provide trailer content details, improve trailer rescue timing, and deliver instructions at gate arrival and for dock assignments.
Cloud-to-cloud
Enhancing your ability to quickly respond, improve data visibility, and allow for better validation and functionality, ensuring higher quality control and more effective support and training.
Trailer tracking
Accurately associate what is returning across the organization to improve visibility and provide accuracy in reporting information such as trailer utilization and balancing.
Event-driven integration
Integrating TMS and YMS using an event-driven driven model enables real-time workflows and automated actions, enhancing predictability for users without needing constant polling or manual input.
Fleet managers want to increase on-time delivery percentage, pick up salvage returns, and notify retail partners of upcoming deliveries all the while driving fewer miles and using less equipment. Adopting a TMS and a YMS directly cuts down costs in the long run by reducing inventory loss, helping operators battle the growing emphasis on compliance with improved reporting measures, and fulfilling the need for data accuracy under quick turnaround times. A large distribution center that handles both inbound returns and outbound shipments could be affected by inefficient management of its processes, leading to increased handling times, higher labor costs, and missed opportunities for revenue generation. This is especially common for grocery and retail suppliers. Our solution optimizes returns/loads trips and associated revenue of transport back to the warehouse or distribution center.
A Smarter End-to-End Solution
Kaleris TMS, powered by CAMS Prospero, has a 100% deployment success rate, and seamlessly unites inbound and outbound transportation management with yard operations. Reduce clerical requirements while improving data accuracy, timeliness, and completeness with a single, unified suite of tools from a single vendor.
Why choose Kaleris?
- Increase visibility and control of all transportation planning and execution functions — inbound and outbound
- Increase backhaul profitability
- A cost-effective means for multi-site distribution of commodities
- Improve compliance and reporting
- Optimize routing and driver dispatch
- Manage hourly & activity-based driver payroll
About Kaleris TMS
Kaleris TMS offers businesses an integrated solution with Truck TMS, Fleet TMS, ELD, and Load Tracker for end-to-end management, enabling order consolidation, route optimization, and driver tracking to boost efficiency and cut costs. Unlike generic systems, Kaleris TMS provides a tailored transportation system with advanced visibility for private fleet operations.
About Kaleris YMS
With over 20 years of experience in YMS solutions and a 98% retention rate, Kaleris continues to develop its solutions in line with technological changes to provide customers with the best product. The days of “out of sight, out of mind” yard management are over – Kaleris’ platform puts the yard front and center, highlighting its importance as a critical component of a strong supply chain.
Transform how you operate in the yard and on the go with a TMS combined with ABI Research’s #1 YMS.