How Often Should You Perform a Lot Check on Your Yard?

Performing lot checks is an essential responsibility on every yard. With every business, without conducting routine check-ins, you run the risk of letting problems slide under the cracks. To uphold a positive reputation of the Yard and Operations Manager, performing routine lot checks is critical to ensure operations continues to run smoothly. In this article, we’ll discover what exactly a lot check, why it’s an important aspect to a yard’s operations, how often they should be done, and additional tools/resources you can incorporate that will make lot checks simpler.

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Lot Check Frequency

There is no set date and time when a lot check should be performed. Depending on the size and level of activity that occurs in the yard, a typical lot check may be conducted 3 or more times daily (for larger operations) to only once weekly (for smaller operations). However, it’s never too much to do a lot check at least once daily (but 4 times a day for perishable goods!). That way, it will become part of the day-to-day routine and will help you keep track of what’s happening in the yard.

Whatever the case may be, without utilizing the right tools and allocating the proper resources to perform successful lot checks, you could waste time and energy to get inaccurate results. Perhaps it may be time to upgrade your system to a cloud-based tablet or switch to YardView’s yard management system to efficiently, accurately, and with accountability, perform yard checks and get everyone on the same page.

Why Lot Checks are Important

Before incorporating and leveraging any type of YMS tool, you have to have a borderline understanding of what’s happening in the yard, what’s there presently, how many items are in the yard, and what their locations are. That way, while the lot check is in progress, you can double check its results to ensure it’s accurate.

The good news is that lot checks allow all parties to be involved; however, be aware of what’s held in the yard, since it can be overwhelming considering a certain commodity is low, unavailable, or improperly counted. Such issues can make those responsible embarrassed for not remaining on top of their yard checks. Maintaining accountability is key.

Without implementing a sufficient yard management software, so many more inaccuracies can come into the limelight. For example, once a lot check is done, a yard employee would manually input the information into an excel spreadsheet, Google Doc, or another non-real-time system. This increases the chances for human error, slowed progress, and poorly timed updates. Think about it if you perform multiple lot checks a day. It would be a twisted rollercoaster that would never end.

Allow Our YMS to Do All the Tedious Work for You – Accurately!

See why we’ve been leading the industry for more than 20 years. YardView’s cutting-edge yard management system slashes 50% off the amount of time spent used during lot checks. By providing all parties with immediate access to viewing accurate counts and yard positions, you will have time back in your pocket to focus on what’s most important. Then, with the in-cab move request system, as commodities are moved, the inventory constantly updates itself with accurate information. This innovative YMS solution leaves you feeling confident and comforted knowing all future lot checks won’t go unchecked or unnoticed.

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