Yard Management: Identification and Evaluation of Critical Sub-processes with AHP

Yard management is crucial for logistics and transport operations due to the high influence towards smooth and efficient intralogistics on dedicated depot sites of logistics service providers. Yet, this field has interesting new insights to offer, especially regarding prioritizing and decision-making concepts with the support of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) tools. Within this publication five critical yard sub-processes are identified and prioritized with the AHP methodology in the following order: management of the shunting system, registration at the gateway, allocation of trucks to gates/parking spaces, removal of a transport unit from the gate and exit control.