Intermodal Supply Chain

On-Site Equipment Management: Agile Yard Operations Without Downtime

Keep your site moving — even when your core systems can’t.

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CHALLENGE

Industrial sites, terminals, and yards run on complex orchestration:

Equipment must be tracked, weighed, moved, and stored according to precise rules.
Replacing legacy systems, like Oracle or outdated yard management tools, often leads to gaps in mission-critical operations, disruptions in continuity and loss of efficiency.
Building a new mission-critical backbone (like S/4HANA on Azure) can take years — but operations can’t wait.
Even with modern smart cameras and sensors, data often stays siloed: trucks come in, but site operators still juggle Excel, radios, and guesswork.

In short: unexpected IT gaps or outdated tools shouldn’t stop your site from running smoothly.

The ovinto solution

Ovinto’s On-Site Equipment Management (OSEM) keeps your site flowing — bridging old and new, plug-and-play.

Connect: Ovinto links smart cameras, sensors, weighbridges, and internal applications—such as those used for loading instructions and equipment movements—to capture incoming asset IDs, weights, and yard instructions in real time.
Orchestrate: Data gets fed to the right module at the right time to guide equipment for precise container placement, verify loading and unloading rules, and confirms gross weight through weighbridge integration.
Deliver: Operators see one orchestrated flow — assets come in, get processed, placed, acknowledged, and reported back into your ERP (like S/4HANA) without manual steps or risk.

Configured for you. No IT involvement necessary.

Results & Benefits

Visibility

Real-time view of all assets on-site, their exact position, and status.
Instant updates from every connected module: cameras, stackers, weighbridges.
Single source of truth for yard operations — no more radio calls or paper tickets.

Insights

Plug Ovinto in as a fast interim solution while building your long-term backbone (like a new WMS or ERP).
Sandbox mode: test multiple WMS providers side-by-side, benchmark, and switch without downtime.
Flexible service bus architecture — if one tool fails, swap it without disrupting the site.

Control

Fully orchestrated asset flows with automated error handling and compliance checks.
Faster yard moves, fewer manual actions, and lower operational risk.
Scalable: keep Ovinto running long-term or switch off once your core system is ready — zero lock-in.

“We couldn’t afford to pause operations while building our new SAP S/4HANA backbone. Ovinto plugged the gap instantly — we orchestrate all yard movements, test new modules safely, and deliver continuous uptime. It’s agile yard management, exactly when we needed it.”

Site Operations Lead, Major European Chemical Hub