Yard Management System (YMS)

The database is at your disposal to create simple, or extremely detailed functional reports. Integrate with our other modules or your own systems for more detailed and comprehensive reports. For example, connect the Silver Bullet YMS to a TMS or WMS for even more functionality and reporting possibilities. Create an infinite number of reports at commodity, customer, branch, or any level. We'll train you to pull any custom report your teams need to understand your business and make strategic choices.

Data entry is time consuming, requires unnecessary labor, and is prone to error. Often times, companies receiving information from partners will have to input that information into the system manually. Other times, when a shipment moves from one mode of transportation to another, some shipment information will have to be re-entered instead of simply automatically updating the shipment. A smartly integrated and automated system can reduce cost, error, and increase efficiency and quality of customer service.

• Utilize EDI, XML, Excel and other forms of data imports to reduce data entry.
• Customers, steamship lines and trucking companies can provide data electronically regarding incoming and outgoing equipment.
• Scale integration, no manual weight entry required.
• Bar coded equipment and yard spots allow for quick and easy verification and data entry

Electronically register the in and out gates of equipment with no human interaction required. RFID and image recognition capabilities can be added to your workflow through custom business processes and automatically managed in our yard management software. 

Managing an efficient yard operation requires handling many different processes, assets, and communications. Automated alerts and notifications allow yard facilities to keep track of all the moving parts and to know immediately when a change needs to happen in order for operations to keep running smoothly. Alerts, notifications, and triggerable procedures can be completely configured and defined by you. For example, you can alert relevant parties, send emails, text alerts, notifications, and trigger job functions for:

• Reefer management-plugin
• Reefer temp control
• Dispatch and arrival
• Detention and demurrage
• Equipment loaded and ready
• Equipment maintenance
• Appointments for certain jobs in 15 minutes or some other time frame
• Reassignments if driver has not checked in
• Updates of shipper instructions eliminating special handling errors
• and unlimited possibilities

Create customizable events, milestones, business processes and dashboards.

• Unlimited dashboards allow users to update data and events for multiple loads, tasks and processes on a single screen.
• Always know the status of any shipment or piece of equipment with customer defined statuses and events
• Manage refrigerated, bulk, liquid, containers, and trailers of any size and type of conveyance

We offer a desktop application for office functions, reporting, and issuing work orders. We offer a web application that can run on handheld devices for convenient field use.

Just because you manage a yard, doesn't mean you operate like everybody else. Our yard management system enables customers to capitalize on their unique business process by creating custom work orders. These work orders can then be automated, tracks, and managed from without our yard management system. 

• Create and define work orders for all yard jobs and functions:
  • Equipment moves
  • Shuttles
  • Maintenance Orders
  • Reefer and Generator Checks
  • Yard Checks
  • Flips and Swaps
  • and many more
• Each work order may have any number of custom "To Do's" that can be required or optional
• Adjust the priority of each work order or work order type for an individual work order or group

Increase operational efficiency and reduce managerial overhead by managing employee workflow automatically around resources and job functions such as:

• Hostler
• Gate
• Yard Check
• Fueling
• Etc.

Being able to trace your business processes allows you to monitor and refine your operations as well as resolve issues quickly. With our yard management system, keep track of equipment logs, yard location logs, user logs, and work order logs. Everything in Silver Bullet is logged so you always have a history of everything that happens for all equipment and users.

Prevent errors and keep your operations running smoothly by setting specific permissions for specific users. Users only have access to features when given rights to those features. Create custom user roles that fit your organizational structure. Create exceptions for users with unique responsibilities.