ASB Logistics accelerates vehicle logistics with INFORM Yard & Workshop Management
ASB Logistics is a highly specialized, medium-sized vehicle logistics provider based in the heart of Europe. To maintain maximum flexibility in a rapidly changing market, ASB relies on INFORM Yard and Workshop Management to fully digitize, optimize, and control its transport, storage, and vehicle processing operations end to end.
Challenge
ASB Logistics handles around 60,000 vehicles and vehicle parts per year, ranging from passenger cars to agricultural and construction machinery, caravans, and special transports. Customers increasingly expect same-day responses, short lead times, and customized services - even for spontaneous or rush orders.
To stay competitive, ASB faced several challenges:
- Growing operational complexity across transport, yard, and workshop processes
- High administrative effort due to manual coordination and planning
- Limited real-time transparency across vehicles, orders, personnel, and resources
- The need to scale operations without adding administrative headcount
ASB’s goal was to digitize all logistics processes, increase speed and flexibility, and reliably meet customer demands at any time.
Solution
Together with INFORM, ASB Logistics developed an individual, scalable solution based on INFORM Yard and Workshop Management, tailored precisely to ASB’s operational processes.
The solution provides:
- End-to-end real-time transparency of vehicles, transports, orders, personnel, and resources
- Intelligent planning and optimization of:
- vehicle movements and parking positions
- workshop sequences (inspections, modifications, washing, repairs)
- employee shift planning
- parts and resource availability
- Mobile applications that guide employees through their next tasks and capture feedback instantly
- A high degree of automation for administrative and documentation processes
ASB’s goal was to digitize all logistics processes, increase speed and flexibility, and reliably meet customer demands at any time.
Results
The introduction of INFORM Yard & Workshop Management delivered outstanding, measurable improvements:
ASB can now handle growing order volumes with greater speed, reliability, and efficiency - without increasing organizational overhead.
- Complete digitalization of all logistics processes
- Throughput accelerated by 20–30× through automated workflows
- Same-day solution finding for urgent and spontaneous orders
- Full real-time transparency across all processes
- Optimized planning of vehicle movements, truck loading, order sequences, duty rosters, and resources
- High automation of administrative tasks, significantly reducing internal effort
INFORM helps us to better structure the processes and procedures in our logistics center with less organization.
Future Outlook
The joint project between ASB and INFORM has laid the foundation for continuous innovation. Building on the current solution, ASB plans to further expand planning and optimization across all transport processes and integrate advanced machine-learning capabilities.
Future initiatives also focus on sustainability, aiming to reduce emissions by avoiding unnecessary vehicle movements and ensuring optimal utilization of transport and yard capacities.
Conclusion:
Revolution in vehicle logistics
By working closely with INFORM, ASB Logistics was able to revolutionize its logistics processes, increase flexibility and efficiency and assert itself on the market. The customized solution enables ASB to react quickly to changes in the industry and implement future-oriented, sustainable business strategies.
Lill Haase
Product Marketing Manager
Lill Haase has been part of INFORM since 2023. She has been focusing on Vehicle Logistics ever since – turning complex topics into clear, accessible messages. In her work, she puts strong emphasis on customer relevance, clarity, and trust.
