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Yard Smart Yard Management Software Solution

Smart software that optimizes your logistics system integration

Yard Smart is the only agent-based yard management software on the market today. Using intelligent agents as the basis for its decision making, the Yard Smart yard management software package with built-in appointment and dock scheduling, is able to adapt to the changing needs in your yard and on your dock on a minute-by-minute basis – ensuring that you get the best performance possible.

Yard Smart is built on open standards and can be fully integrated with virtually every major WMS or TMS on the market. This means that Yard Smart can help create a strategic bridge between systems that are already up and running, creating even greater efficiencies. Yard Smart yard management software can also run in stand-alone mode, allowing you to rationalize yard operations without having to make any other systems investments.

Best-in-class software with a 10-year track record

Over the years, Yard Smart has grown, through constant development in partnership with our clients to become a full-featured enterprise-level solution. But at its core, the principle that has guided the system’s development 10 years ago are the same today – reliability, efficiency and scalability. That’s the experience and reliability you get from our yard management software package, which includes appointment & dock scheduling software. Our clients depend on Yard Smart’s dock & appointment scheduling software as a mission-critical part of their supply chain. That means it’s got to work right from day one.

Put our agents to work in your yard

Agent-based decision making yard management software represents a major leap forward in the flexibility and problem-solving ability. By using individually configured software agents, like our dock scheduling and dock scheduling, to represent every process, we can build a hierarchy of priorities that allows the agents to negotiate among themselves to prioritize workflow in the way that most efficiently meets your operational needs.

Cross platform and open standard

C3 Solutions' Yard Smart yard management software has been developed using a common architecture to run in both Microsoft and J2EE environments and on virtually any hardware platform and database combination. Yard Smart yard management software package uses standard messaging protocols; as a result, it can communicate easily with most ERP, WMS and TMS systems. Our yard management software package, including dock scheduling and appointment scheduling, object-oriented programming model allows you to create and add independent modules without impacting overall product architecture or compromising core reliability.

To learn more about the technology behind Yard Smart, click here.

What Can Yard Smart Do For You
  • Integrate fully into your WMS and TMS systems to provide a strategic link
  • Reduce short ships, late departures and prioritize unload of hot products
  • Automate the assignment of all tasks using agent-based decision making
  • Speed up gate transactions and improve throughput
  • Maximize door utilization and boost dock worker productivity
  • Ensure on-time trailer departure by planning and automating loading steps
  • Prepare, execute and monitor trailer journeys (multi-move trips) within the yard or departing form the yard
  • Automate trailer maintenance scheduling and ensure only safe trailers are on the road
  • Integrate to your fleet’s onboard communication system
  • Provide a global, real-time view of everything in your yard right down to the SKU level
  • Monitor position and status of tractors and plan tractor moves
  • Create profiles to prioritize the use of certain units
  • Track drivers either paired with a tractor or independently, allowing you to balance workloads
  • Reduce or avoid trailer detention charges
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