Expert Decking includes the following key functional elements:
Yard Allocations
Section Factor
Stacking Factor
Segregation Factor
Strategy
These elements act together to filter and score candidate yard stacks to select optimal yard positions for containers. Within a Navis N4 XPS yard allocation, Expert Decking section factors and stacking factors provide added filters to match a container to others in all yard rows and stacks. To score each candidate stack, Expert Decking applies a strategy consisting of a set of user-defined penalties. A container is assigned to the stack with the lowest score.