RFID Journal magazine, the world's leading source of RFID news and insights, recently published an article about how a leading third-party logistics company, DSC Logistics, is reducing costs and better collaborating with trading partners through the use of an advanced yard management solution. If you'd like to read the entire article please click here. 

"DSC Logistics uses RFID readers on its yard truck, and at its gate, to monitor where each trailer is located, and then shares that data with customers and freight carriers.

At the California location, O'Reilly says, the PINC system has enabled the company to achieve savings by increasing the yard-goat drivers' productivity, reducing average travel distance within the yard, streamlining communication between drivers and the shipping office, and eliminating the manual yard-check process. Another benefit, he adds, is the ability to share data with freight carriers and customers, which need simply log into the DSC Logistics' PINC Web site, enter a password, access a dashboard displaying each trailer's status (such as received, unloaded or shipped) and view its location as an icon on a yard map. The system can send notifications to customers, either via an update on their dashboard as they sign in, or via an e-mail indicating when a specific action has occurred, such as a change in a trailer's load status. In addition, operators can utilize the system to resolve detention claims from their carriers—in the event that a shipment is late, for example—since the data indicates the trailer's exact location, when it was at that site and for how long. 

Based on the solution's success to date, O'Reilly says, DSC Logistics is currently preparing to deploy the technology at two other sites—one in Pennsylvania and one in Virginia—during the first quarter of this year. "

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http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/view/9100/1