Personnel
Savings Calculator
Knowing the location and movement of trailers and switchers is critical to
managing a safe and productive yard. Zebra MotionWorks™ Yard facilitates
the continuous flow of material and goods between your transportation systems
and distribution centers or manufacturing plants, increases gate transaction
speed, improves switcher productivity and ensures the right trailer arrives at
the right door, at the right time.
Answer the questions below to generate a custom report of your potential savings
with MotionWorks Yard.
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Personnel
Please provide the below details to help determine
potential savings from more efficient use of your personnel.
1. Number of shifts per day
2. Number of days per week
3. Number of weeks per year
Yard Background
Answers to these questions will help determine if your
company is a good candidate for MotionWorks Yard.
4. Number of Yards/Locations
5. Yard is outsourced
6. Average number of dock doors for each location
7. Average size of your yard
8. Total trailers that come and go each day (Process I/B and O/B trailers),
per yard
9. Percentage of I/O trailers that are Live Load (not Drop & Hook)
10. Percentage of trailers that are of your own dedicated fleet (not third party owned)
11. Number of parking spaces on average, per yard
12. Third party assets come in and out of the yard
13. Manual check-in, check-out process with your own fleet
Current Process
The answers to these questions help us determine potential
savings with MotionWorks Yard vs your existing process.
14. Select how you currently manage your yard
15. Type of gate process used, select all that apply by entering the count
Guard
Kiosk
LPR
RTLS
16. Time in minutes to check-in and check-out
Check-in
Check-out
17. How do you currently execute Yard Audits
moves made in a week
18. Number of switcher moves per week
Note: move = pick up and drop from one location.
Note: move = pick up and drop from one location.
Labor
Please provide the below details to help determine
potential savings from more efficient use of your personnel.
Note: "Fully Loaded" should include a 30% benefits increase (may vary state to
state).
hours per week
fully loaded hourly pay rate
19. Hours spent on manual yard audits per week
20. Hours spent looking for trailers or dealing with misdirected trailers per
week
21. Time spent on scheduling appointments, carrier notifications & inquires
per
week
22. Time spent creating carrier management, driver and activity reports per
week
23. Switcher labor cost per week
24. Gate labor cost per week
Additional Costs
Please provide the below details to help determine
potential savings based on your existing expenditures.
25. Average demurrage/detention cost per week
26. Total annual cost of fines for gates backed up on public roads.
# of trucks
annual
OPEX cost
OPEX cost
27. Number of owned switcher trucks - all costs to run a truck, not including
labor.
# of trucks
annual
OPEX cost
OPEX cost
28. Number of leased switcher trucks - all costs to run a truck, not
including
labor.
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Calculated Results
The
following
are
results based on inputs you have provided to show projected savings
with Zebra MotionWorks Yard.
MotionWorks Yard Cost Comparison
Estimated
annual
cost
of your current process:
Estimated
annual
cost
when using Zebra:
Your
estimated savings with Zebra
Estimated
annual
savings:
| Operational Efficiencies |
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| Cost per trailer switch | |||
| Time per gate transaction (Check-in) | |||
| Time per gate transaction (Check-out) |
| Detailed Activity Savings |
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| Yard audit cost | |||
| Trailer management cost | |||
| Scheduling and carrier management cost | |||
| Report creation and development cost | |||
| Switcher labor cost | |||
| Demurrage/detention cost | |||
| Switcher truck operation cost | |||
| Traffic fines cost | |||
| Total Annual Cost |
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