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Who Should Be on Your RFP Team?

TL;DR A Yard Management or Dock Scheduling RFP team needs six seats: Yard and Dock Operations, IT / Architecture, Procurement, Finance, Carrier Relations, and an Executive Sponsor. Each one evaluates…

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Defining Ownership of Dock Appointment Scheduling

TL;DR: Dock appointment scheduling breaks down when accountability is shared but never assigned, not when the software is weak. The fix is a sequence: name one owner, document who decides…

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Yard and Dock Software RFP: 7 Steps to Choosing the Right Vendor

TL;DR A well-run yard management or dock scheduling RFP takes roughly 20 to 24 weeks and moves through 7 steps: discovery, requirements definition, market scan, RFP issuance, paper evaluation, demos…

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Dock Scheduling vs. Yard Management: What You Actually Need at Scale

Every few weeks, a supply chain executive asks us some version of the same question: we already schedule appointments, so do we really need a yard management system? It is…

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Why Audit Logs and System Health Checks Matter in Yard Management

The morning team came in and found a trailer at dock 7 that was supposed to be in bay 14. The outbound crew was loading a shipment onto the wrong…

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Carrier Management in Transportation: Best Practices and Challenges

A scheduler at a busy DC opens her inbox on Monday morning. Forty-three emails from carriers. Three need different appointment windows. Two are confirming tomorrow’s deliveries. One is asking why…

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Self-Service Dock Scheduling: What It Looks Like for Drivers and Dispatchers

A dispatcher needs to book a dock appointment at a DC in New Jersey. She calls and is put on hold for 11 minutes. The scheduler picks up, checks a…

C3 Solutions at Warehouse. & Yard. 2026: What We Saw, Heard, and Learned

Trade shows come and go. But every so often, one captures exactly where the industry is heading—and Warehouse. & Yard. 2026 did just that. On 30 June and 1 July,…