Pennsylvania-based Penske Logistics, a supply chain and logistics solutions provider, recently implemented the Blue Yonder Yard Management solution at one of its warehouses.
The company sought an innovative way to track and monitor equipment in its yards.
“Thanks to Blue Yonder’s computer vision-based Yard Management solution we have gained greater visibility in our yard, allowing us to know trailer and container location details and status, which has resulted in improved efficiencies. Automating the gate-in, gate-out process has allowed us to make better business decisions that positively benefit our customers,” Ramu Pannala, Penske Logistics vice president supply chain technology, said.
Penske Logistics uses the technology to automate and centralize tasks to return labor to other more productive activities, increase the speed of processing trucks, connect directly into the Blue Yonder Warehouse Management System so that shipments are automatically logged in the system and tracked, automatically check out to provide time-stamp details for when tractors and trailers exit the yard, and utilize camera/computer vision technology and machine learning tied into the solution to automatically check-in and identify trailers to know what shipments are in the yard and where the trailer or container is parked.
Penske may implement the solution at other locations later this year.