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Yard Spot is container yard management for open yards and transloading operations

Container Yard Management Built for Visibility, Speed and Efficiency

A yard management system designed to increase the productivity of transloading operations, container freight stations (CFS), open container yards, and unattended or unsecured lots.

Sync your gate logs, trailer and container locations, and dock doors into a single, seamless operating picture to accelerate total facility velocity.

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Yard Execution from Gate to Door and Back

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Digitize your entire gate-in and gate-out process to accelerate truck turn-times, eliminate paper logs, and radically improve data accuracy.

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Ditch the clipboards and manual data re-entry. Yard Spot automates your daily inventory audits by leveraging high-speed mobile apps. 

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Rule-based auto-dispatch engine automatically assigns and prioritizes moves for your yard jockeys based on adjustable parameters.

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Map physical dock doors and creates geofences for internal stacking zones or external facilities — all without expensive hardware. 

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Keep tight track of incoming, outgoing and in-yard inventory changes for accurate costing and invoicing.

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Plug cleanly into your existing TMS, WMS, and GPS IoT network and stream data on day one.

 Smarter Way to Manage Your Container Yards

Decrease turn times, speed up yard checks, and increase warehouse productivity. Get hostler drives, warehouse teams and dispatchers working from a common operating picture.

Coordinate the Yard, Warehouse & Dispatch 

Assign and manage the movement of containers, trailers and other assets. Increase yard and warehouse coordination.

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Speed Up Yard Checks with AI and OCR

Scan containers, trailers and chassis with a mobile app to improve location tracking and accuracy and speed up yard checks.

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Extend Visibility Beyond the Yard

Connect to IoT devices and extend visibility beyond the yard. Display the location of any asset using GPS tracking.  

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Integrate Systems for Optimal Efficiency

Integrate with supply chain systems, such as transportation and warehouse management systems (TMS and WMS) and port APIs.

Transform Your Container Yard Management

Coordinate the activities of all your team members in yard operations with Yard Spot’s visualized work assignment and management. Integrated, timely and relevant information from this container yard management system ensures everyone on your team stays on the same page.

Shuttle and Truck Drivers

Locate containers, chassis, trailers and equipment with Yard Spot’s visualized data. Drivers can now make efficient and safe moves throughout container yards.

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Dispatchers

Reduce detention and per diem fees using Yard Spot’s color-coded container aging reports, which help you better prioritize the movement of containers and equipment.

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Yard Operations Managers

Gain visibility into yard activity and operation statuses across all your facilities to make smarter decisions based on customer needs, exceptions and disruptions in real time.

Accounting

Reconcile the movement of containers in and out of your yards, and eliminate the daily scramble to collect information with integrations built directly into your system of record.

Container Yard Management for High-Velocity Operations

Yard Spot: Proven Value for Yard Management.

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"We have been using Yard Spot to provide better visibility, reduce cost and improve safety. Its integration capabilities and workflow automation has been pivotal in creating tangible benefits for us."  - Trevor Dunlap, President

“Yard checks, which previously took three hours, are now completed in less than one hour with Yard Spot — covering about 275 containers daily at a 98% accuracy rate.”
- STI

Yard Spot is container yard management in and beyond your yards
Container yard management
Yard management for transloading
Intermodal asset management

A Modular Approach to Container Yard Management

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Begin automating yard checks

Digitize daily yard audits using mobile and fixed cameras.

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Automate hostler workflows

Coordinate moves between the warehouse, yard and dispatch.

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Integrate GPS and operational data

Share data between your WMS, TMS and GPS tracking systems.

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Add gate management

Ensure good data from entry to exit on every container and trailer.

Pay for what you need and add modules as your yard grows and evolves

See How Yard Spot Increases Productivity

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