28 January 2015

Oracle Yard Management

Sathya Sundar, Oracle Solution Architect

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Oracle Yard Management- An

Overview
Overview of a Yard
Terms of reference and Oracle Mapping
Process Flow
Brief Demonstration-Setup and
Transactions
How Yard Management enhances VCE
footprint
Progress

Yard Management- An Overview

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Industry Applicability

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How a Yard Looks Like-A sample layout

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Yard- Terms of Reference and Oracle Mapping

Term

Description

Oracle Mapping

Trailers/Power Units

Power Units used to transport

goods that check in and check out
of the yard

Equipment Type

Yard

An extension of warehouse
Provides Visibility into inventory
into the yard and the equipment

Inventory Organization

Yard Area

Logical areas that represent

activities such as Inbound,
Outbound

Sub inventories

Parking Spots

Determines the exact location of

the trailer (A gate)

Locators

Dock

Dock Door

SCAC Code

An alphanumeric code that

identified the carrier

SCAC

Equipment Number

The serial number or unique

number which enables
identification

Equipment Number

Seal/Unseal Operations

Seal codes present in the

shipment supplied by
carriers/suppliers

Seal/Unseal Equipment

Warehouse

Attached to the Yard

Service Organization

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Yard Terms of Reference and Oracle Mapping

Term

Description

Oracle Mapping

Check In

Activity to register a trailer or

container as it enters an yard of a
Warehouse (loaded inbound
shipment or empty trailer for
outbound)

Check in Transaction

Check Out

A yard check-out refers to

discharging a trailer or container
that exits the yard of a
warehouse.

Check Out Transaction

Yard Movement

Movement of the Trailers to a

parking place or a dock door for
unloading material

Move Order Transfer

Dock scheduling

Schedule

Schedule dock appointments

Jockeys

Usually contract labour who move

the trailer around the yard using a
powering unit

Users

Hostlers

Move transactions on the power

units

Users

Drivers

Drive the power units

Drivers

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Exceptions Management

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Oracle Yard Management-Solution Overview

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Costing in Yard Management

Feature

Support

Ability to support cost of the trailer contents

Yes

Supported Method

Average

Inventory Valuation

Values the cost of the trailer contents

Supported Transaction for calculating trailer content cost

Inbound
ASN/PO

RMA
Internal shipments, Internal Requisitions
Outbound shipments
ISO/IR
RTV Shipments
Delivery
Trip

Cost groups

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Cost groups are created for every equipment instance upon

check in automatically
Costing is per cost group

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Yard Management-Complementing Oracle VCE

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Thank You

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