Regain control of your docks

While scanners, barcodes and other such innovations all guarantee steadily increasing efficiency inside handling terminals, the organization out on the dock itself often leaves a lot to be desired. Logistics service providers can spend up to 25% of their time simply waiting on-site. This in turn significantly drives up costs. The constantly growing number of trucks arriving for pickup and delivery and the increasing complexity this creates has intensified the need for improved dock management.

11/16/2009inet Dock Management enables foresighted planning, a structured course of action and fast response times. Docks and time frames are agreed upon online between shippers, consignees and logistics service providers – with each specific dock’s properties being taken into account and stored. This allows, for example, refrigerated transports to be automatically assigned to the respective dock. Automatic confirmations or alternative suggestions as well as notifications of changes are sent immediately upon entry. The inet communication and integration platform additionally guarantees that all partners in the supply chain receive a real-time overview of all reservations and entries, thereby significantly reducing costly emergency fixes and waiting times at the facility. Better resource planning and allocation also results in optimized loading and unloading operations, while the graphic visualization and the event & exception handling function help keep everything on track even when dealing with large volumes.

inet Dock Management thus improves transparency, planning and handling – and as a direct result thereof, also the bottom-line cost-benefit ratio. The inet solution moreover allows analyses of dock utilization as well as performance analyses of logistics service providers. Thus, foresighted planning and retrospective analysis go hand in hand with inet Dock Management.