Gate Chaos Costs You Time and Money
Every day, your gate team juggles paper, phone calls, long queues of waiting trucks, and pressure – one small issue can derail the whole yard.
Juggling paper, calls, and queues?
One error derails your yard—idling trucks, stressed teams, rising emissions
Inside the Chaos at the Gate
Gate processes are often the most hectic point in the yard – phones ringing, drivers waiting, paperwork everywhere.
Operational Overload
Error and Risk
Invisible Cost and Emissions
There Has to Be a Calmer Way to Run the Gate
What if every check‑in and check‑out followed a clear, guided flow? What if data was captured once, correctly, and shared with SAP automatically? What if your gate felt calm, not chaotic?
That is exactly why we created Orion.
Meet Orion – Your Smart Gate Companion
Orion guides gate operators step by step through check-in and check-out. It replaces paper, spreadsheets, and ad-hoc phone calls with a simple, guided digital flow.
Key capabilities:
- Guided check‑in and check‑out flows for trucks, trailers and containers.
- AI‑based OCR and barcode scanning for freight orders, vehicle plates and container IDs.
- Customizable checklists (driver verification, license, safety checks, documents, seals).
- Digital signatures at the gate instead of paper forms.
- Role‑ and user‑based authorization for secure gate operations.
- Out‑of‑the‑box integration with SAP TM, EWM and LE-TRA on SAP BTP.
Life with Orion: from chaos to calm
With Orion in place, your gate team follows a clear, digital process instead of improvising under pressure.
You gain:
- Up to 95% reduction in human error at the gate
- Around 40% higher gate operation efficiency through standardized steps and scanning.
- Approximately 25% lower gate operational costs by reducing manual effort and rework.
- Less waiting, idling and back‑and‑forth – contributing to lower CO₂ emissions from trucks at the gate.
How Orion works
Identify & retrieve
Scan license plate, container, or driver details – instantly matched to the right freight order.
Verify & capture
Use AI-based OCR and barcodes to capture load, vehicle, and shipment information with minimal typing
Guide Check-In and Check-Out
An intuitive app helps staff through the entire check in check out process
Sign and Print in Seconds
Capture digital signatures and print gate and loading documents on the spot.
Sync with SAP TM
Status updates, events, and documents are written back to SAP TM – no double entry, no missed updates.
The result: one version of the truth about every truck movement on your site.
Where Orion fits best
Orion is ideal wherever trucks, trailers or containers move through a physical gate and must be checked in and out reliably.
Perfect for:
- Manufacturing plants and distribution centers with high truck volumes.
- Chemical and process industries with strict safety and compliance checks.
- Logistics hubs and 3PL sites that need standardized gate processes across locations.
- Operations still using paper gate books, Excel lists or custom transactions for gate control.
Built on SAP BTP, integrated with SAP logistics
Orion is a NAV‑IT innovation on SAP Business Technology Platform, designed to work hand‑in‑hand with SAP logistics solutions.
- Integrates with SAP Transportation Management, SAP Extended Warehouse Management and LE-TRA.
- Uses SAP BTP services to provide a scalable, secure and extensible platform.
- Available on SAP Store as an out‑of‑the‑box, plug‑and‑play solution
Business outcomes you can expect
Organizations using Orion typically aim to:
- Standardize gate processes across sites and shifts.
- Improve data quality for freight orders, vehicles, containers and seals at entry and exit.
- Reduce manual effort and rework in SAP by capturing data correctly at the gate.
- Increase gate throughput while maintaining or improving safety and compliance.
- Support sustainability goals by cutting idle times and unnecessary waiting at the gate.
See Orion in action
See how Orion turns gate chaos into calm, controlled operations in a live scenario.
Frequently Asked Questions about
Orion – The Gate App
1. What is Orion?
Orion is a gate operations app that digitizes and standardizes truck, trailer and container check‑in and check‑out, guiding staff through a clear process and updating your SAP logistics systems with clean, consistent data.
2. Which problems does Orion solve at the gate?
Orion replaces manual gate books, paper checklists and ad‑hoc SAP entries with one guided app, reducing human error, cutting waiting times and bringing calm, repeatable workflows to busy gate operations
3. Which checks and data can Orion capture?
Orion can capture freight order details, vehicle and container numbers, driver verification, licenses, seals, cargo information, safety questions, timestamps and digital signatures via configurable checklists.
4. How does Orion integrate with SAP?
Orion runs on SAP Business Technology Platform and integrates with SAP Transportation Management, SAP Extended Warehouse Management and LE‑TRA, posting gate events and data back into your SAP processes
5. Can we adapt the checklists to our site and processes?
Yes, Orion supports custom checklists so you can configure the exact steps, questions and validations that match your site rules, industry requirements and safety standards.
6. Does Orion support scanning and AI‑based data capture?
Orion uses barcode scanning and AI‑powered OCR to read freight orders, vehicle plates and container IDs, reducing manual typing and the risk of incorrect data at the gate.
7. Who uses Orion in daily operations?
Typical users are gate clerks, security staff, yard coordinators and logistics teams who perform check‑in and check‑out, verify drivers and vehicles, and confirm departures and arrivals.
8. How does Orion help with compliance and audits?
By storing structured gate events, checklists, signatures and timestamps, Orion creates a complete digital audit trail of who entered and left the site, when and under which conditions.
9. What technical environment is required?
Orion is built on SAP BTP and connects to your SAP TM, EWM or LE‑TRA system; users access it via supported devices (for example tablets or desktops) at the gate, following your IT and security policies.
10. What benefits can we expect from using Orion?
Customers typically aim for a significant reduction in gate‑related human errors, higher gate throughput, lower operational costs and reduced truck idle times, contributing to more efficient and sustainable operations
11. Can we start with a pilot at one site?
Yes, you can roll out Orion to a single plant or warehouse gate first, fine‑tune the checklists and processes, and then scale the solution across additional locations