Our process

Our Yard Management Process

C3 Yard automates yard tasks, manages gate activity, tracks trailers and shipments, and increases team productivity. The platform scales easily so new features can grow with your operations.

What’s your challenge?

You Have No Visibility

Your Yard Is a Cost Center

Your Yard Ops Are Not Optimal

Your Yard Is a Mess

Your Gate Is a Bottleneck

Your Challenge

You Have No Visibility

The C3 Solution

Get the information you need

C3 Yard offers real time visibility on yard and dock activity for all your sites and provides reports and dashboards on key performance indicators.

Features that solves your challenge

Real-time visibility on yard assets

The yard control tower

Having the ability, at the click of a mouse, to know where trailers and tractors are parked, how many empty trailers are available or missing for shipping, who came in and out of the gate, what your yard drivers are up to and if you are behind or on schedule is simply priceless. Enjoy your own yard control tower with C3 Yard, our web-based yard management system.

Dock management

Turning your doors

C3 Yard offers multiple options to efficiently manage your dock doors. Intuitive monitoring screens to release trailers and door-turn reports allow your staff to be more productive and improve the flow of trailers.

Enterprise visibility

Multiple sites under one roof

Your operations encompass multiple sites (yards, DCs, plants, cross-dock facilities)? You are using offsite parking space? You are dropping trailers at your customers? C3 Yard can be configured to include all these locations (whether they use C3 Yard or not) to extend the visibility and reporting capabilities of your trailer pool.

Exception alerts

Be informed

Beyond having visibility on yard inventory and activities, how will you be made aware of issues as they arise? Thanks to C3 Yard, you can configure email alerts to highlight time-sensitive events requiring your attention (e.g. idle shunter drivers, late arrivals/departures, refused shunter tasks, trailers sitting at door for too long).

Operational reports

Smart reporting

C3 Yard is a robust yard management system that allows you to report on key performance indicators such as driver productivity, gate activity, trailer status, time in yard, dock door usage, etc.

Looking for Yard KPIs? C3 Yard includes a reporting datastore that allows customers to build their own tailored analytical reports such as driver productivity, gate activity, trailer status, time-in-yard, dock door usage, etc.

Mobile: Anywhere, Anytime

At the cutting edge of technology

C3 Yard’s Progressive Web Application allows gate, warehouse and yard personnel to access all relevant C3 Yard functionality on a mobile device. This means that warehouse personnel can easily capture timestamps related to arrival, on dock and departure times. In addition, load exceptions (faults) can be easily documented with the mobile device’s internal camera in real-time.

Yard drivers can get rid of their radios and notepads. With C3 Yard, they receive clear instructions on a mobile touch-screen device. Using business rules and priority levels set up by yard controllers, C3 Yard constantly analyzes the pool of work in order to assign drivers the most optimal tasks.

Your Challenge

Your Yard Is a Cost Center

The C3 Solution

Invest where it counts

C3 Yard will dramatically increase the productivity of your yard drivers and dock workers and ensure an optimal use of your yard and dock assets.

Features that solves your challenge

Automated shunter task optimizer/assigner

The two-way radio days are over

Yard drivers can get rid of their radios and notepads. C3 Yard’s mobile shunter app provides clear instructions to yard drivers and tracks the execution of the tasks plus allows for inventory checks in real-time.

Using the business rules and priority levels set up by yard controllers, C3 Yard constantly analyses the pool of work to assign drivers the most optimal tasks.

Dock management

Turning your doors

C3 Yard offers multiple options to efficiently manage your dock doors. Intuitive monitoring screens to release trailers and door-turn reports allow your staff to be more productive and improve the flow of trailers.

Exception alerts

Be informed

Beyond having visibility on yard inventory and activities, how will you be made aware of issues as they arise? Thanks to C3 Yard, you can configure email alerts to highlight time-sensitive events requiring your attention (e.g. idle shunter drivers, late arrivals/departures, refused shunter tasks, trailers sitting at door for too long).

Operational reports

Smart reporting

C3 Yard is a robust yard management system that allows you to report on key performance indicators such as driver productivity, gate activity, trailer status, time in yard, dock door usage, etc.

Looking for Yard KPIs? C3 Yard includes a reporting datastore that allows customers to build their own tailored analytical reports such as driver productivity, gate activity, trailer status, time-in-yard, dock door usage, etc.

Inbound planning tools

Do you have a plan?

Obtaining a clear picture of the upcoming day can get confusing if you need to consult various spreadsheets, paper schedules and multiple colleagues.

Using C3’s yard management system, you have access to all the information you need to truly plan your daily activities and balance the dock and yard drivers’ workload. You will also benefit from using C3 Reservations, C3’s online dock scheduling system to automatically integrate appointments to your yard plan.

Business rule engines

Yard automation

Let C3 Yard drive your operations by mapping your unique processes to business rules that will automate repetitive tasks and help you gain efficiencies by linking all the pieces of your operations together.

Your Challenge

Your Yard Operations Are Far From Being Optimal

The C3 Solution

Get the most out of your yard jockeys!

C3 Yard optimizes yard processes through automated task assignment and optimized trailer movements. Every action is recorded and timestamped so you can focus on taking care of your business.

Features that solves your challenge

Automated shunter task optimizer/assigner

The two-way radio days are over

Yard drivers can get rid of their radios and notepads. C3 Yard’s mobile shunter app provides clear instructions to yard drivers and tracks the execution of the tasks plus allows for inventory checks in real-time.

Using the business rules and priority levels set up by yard controllers, C3 Yard constantly analyses the pool of work to assign drivers the most optimal tasks.

Mobile: Anywhere, Anytime

At the cutting edge of technology

C3 Yard’s Progressive Web Application allows gate, warehouse and yard personnel to access all relevant C3 Yard functionality on a mobile device. This means that warehouse personnel can easily capture timestamps related to arrival, on dock and departure times. In addition, load exceptions (faults) can be easily documented with the mobile device’s internal camera in real-time.

Yard drivers can get rid of their radios and notepads. With C3 Yard, they receive clear instructions on a mobile touch-screen device. Using business rules and priority levels set up by yard controllers, C3 Yard constantly analyzes the pool of work in order to assign drivers the most optimal tasks.

Real-time visibility on yard assets

The yard control tower

Having the ability, at the click of a mouse, to know where trailers and tractors are parked, how many empty trailers are available or missing for shipping, who came in and out of the gate, what your yard drivers are up to and if you are behind or on schedule is simply priceless. Enjoy your own yard control tower with C3 Yard, our web-based yard management system.

Inbound planning tools

Do you have a plan?

Obtaining a clear picture of the upcoming day can get confusing if you need to consult various spreadsheets, paper schedules and multiple colleagues.

Using C3’s yard management system, you have access to all the information you need to truly plan your daily activities and balance the dock and yard drivers’ workload. You will also benefit from using C3 Reservations, C3’s online dock scheduling system to automatically integrate appointments to your yard plan.

Shipping process optimization

Surpassing your service levels

An interactive screen displays a complete list of planned departures, current status, tardiness levels and trailer positions. Among the many features, you will have availability notifications on the equipment. You’ll also be able to automate and optimize empty trailer requests to your shipping doors. These are just some of the features offered by C3 Yard.

Your Challenge

Your Yard Is a Mess

The C3 Solution

Get everything in its place

C3 Yard’ s business rule engine brings optimization and automation to your yard operations. Its integration capabilities greatly reduces manual intervention and extends visibility throughout the enterprise.

Features that solves your challenge

Real-time visibility on yard assets

The yard control tower

Having the ability, at the click of a mouse, to know where trailers and tractors are parked, how many empty trailers are available or missing for shipping, who came in and out of the gate, what your yard drivers are up to and if you are behind or on schedule is simply priceless. Enjoy your own yard control tower with C3 Yard, our web-based yard management system.

Dock management

Turning your doors

C3 Yard offers multiple options to efficiently manage your dock doors. Intuitive monitoring screens to release trailers and door-turn reports allow your staff to be more productive and improve the flow of trailers.

Business rule engines

Yard automation


Let C3 Yard drive your operations by mapping your unique processes to business rules that will automate repetitive tasks and help you gain efficiencies by linking all the pieces of your operations together.

Mobile: Anywhere, Anytime

At the cutting edge of technology

C3 Yard’s Progressive Web Application allows gate, warehouse and yard personnel to access all relevant C3 Yard functionality on a mobile device. This means that warehouse personnel can easily capture timestamps related to arrival, on dock and departure times. In addition, load exceptions (faults) can be easily documented with the mobile device’s internal camera in real-time.

Yard drivers can get rid of their radios and notepads. With C3 Yard, they receive clear instructions on a mobile touch-screen device. Using business rules and priority levels set up by yard controllers, C3 Yard constantly analyzes the pool of work in order to assign drivers the most optimal tasks.

Your Challenge

Your Gate Is a Bottleneck

The C3 Solution

Optimize your gate process

C3 Yard increases your gate throughput, streamlines driver check-in and supports pre-arrival details via its driver application.

Features that solves your challenge

Gate control

Increase gate throughput

A major benefit of implementing C3 Yard is to improve the gate operations by replacing the typical spreadsheets, manual logs and phone calls by a simplified, streamlined process involving pre-arrival visibility, gate pass printing and intelligent trailer putaway functions.

Seal management

True seal security

Keeping track of seal numbers in spreadsheets or on paper forms has its limits. With C3 Yard’s seal management features yard operators can set up validation rules to efficiently track and enforce the capture of trailer seals from gate to gate.

Every user action is recorded to produce detailed reports allowing you to actually follow up on seal discrepancies.

Inbound planning tools

Do you have a plan?

Obtaining a clear picture of the upcoming day can get confusing if you need to consult various spreadsheets, paper schedules and multiple colleagues.

Using C3’s yard management system, you have access to all the information you need to truly plan your daily activities and balance the dock and yard drivers’ workload. You will also benefit from using C3 Reservations, C3’s online dock scheduling system to automatically integrate appointments to your yard plan.

Mobile: Anywhere, Anytime

At the cutting edge of technology

C3 Yard’s Progressive Web Application allows gate, warehouse and yard personnel to access all relevant C3 Yard functionality on a mobile device. This means that warehouse personnel can easily capture timestamps related to arrival, on dock and departure times. In addition, load exceptions (faults) can be easily documented with the mobile device’s internal camera in real-time.

Yard drivers can get rid of their radios and notepads. With C3 Yard, they receive clear instructions on a mobile touch-screen device. Using business rules and priority levels set up by yard controllers, C3 Yard constantly analyzes the pool of work in order to assign drivers the most optimal tasks.

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