Stop Losing Money
In Your Yard
The industry's easiest yard management software. Eliminate detention fees, protect every load, find every trailer instantly, and cut operational costs from day one.
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Come See Us at Booth LL-10732
Whether you run a plant, a packaging line or a distribution center, bring your toughest yard problem and we'll show you, live, how YMS handles it.
- Dates
- Sunday, Oct 18 – Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026
- Show hours
- Sun–Tue 9:00 am – 5:00 pm · Wed 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Location
- McCormick Place, 2301 S. King Drive, Chicago, IL
- Booth
- LL-10732
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See Eagle View Live
A live, top-down map of a working yard: every trailer, every door, every move.
Stop Detention Early
Watch alerts flag trailers nearing detention so your team moves them before fees hit.
Talk Through Your Site
Bring your door count, trailer volume and carrier mix. We'll show what changes in your yard.
Built for the industries at PACK EXPO
- Food & Beverage
- Life Sciences, Pharma & Medical Devices
- Pet Food & Pet Care
- Cosmetics & Personal Care
- Household & Automotive
- Chemical
- E-commerce & Warehouse Distribution
Why You'll Love YMS
No matter what your job is, YMS becomes the source of truth for the info you need, instantly. Pick your seat.
You're paying for the yard in three places at once, you just can't see it
“I can tell you our OEE to two decimal places. I can't tell you what the yard costs.”
Detention and demurrage land in transportation. Spotter overtime lands in labor. Missed dock appointments land in throughput. No single line item says “yard,” so it never gets a budget or an owner.
- Every gate move, dock assignment and trailer move timestamped and attributable
- Multi-Facility View puts every plant on one screen — and you can make moves from that screen
- Detention exposure visible before it becomes an invoice you can't dispute
What changes after go-live
One Michelin site saved over $2.5 million. Another saved over $450,000 in its first year. ROI is six months for most sites.
Operations leak in places that are hard to see without a system: spotter costs, gate check-in lags, trailer searching, internal inquiries, leased equipment, dock dwell times, and more.
Your yard lives in one person's head
“Ask Dave. Dave knows where it is.”
One driver or one clerk holds the whole picture. When they're on vacation, out sick, or retire, the yard slows down and nobody can tell you by how much. You can account for every square foot inside the building. Outside the dock door, it's a whiteboard.
- Eagle View gives you a live top-down map anyone on shift can read
- New hires productive in hours — customers report training a whole site in a couple of hours
- Dock Module surfaces dwell times and turn times you can actually measure
What changes after go-live
Yard knowledge stops being a single point of failure. Turn times become a number on a dashboard instead of a feeling.
One customer had run more than ten system implementations and called this the easiest — trained in minutes, then trained their own staff.
You're negotiating with carriers using their data, not yours
“The carrier says their driver waited three hours. I have no way to prove otherwise.”
Detention claims arrive weeks after the fact, built from the carrier's records. Freight spend keeps climbing and you can't isolate how much of it the yard caused. Every scorecard conversation starts from someone else's version of events.
- Gate Module timestamps every arrival and departure, so disputes become searchable instead of arguable
- History Reporting gives you the record to walk into carrier negotiations with
- Multi-Facility View compares dwell and turn times across every site you run
What changes after go-live
Detention stops being an unavoidable cost of doing business and becomes a number you can defend, site by site and carrier by carrier.
Every move in the system is timestamped, attributed to a user, and searchable, which is usually the first thing that changes a carrier conversation.
Your inbox is the scheduling system
“Half my day is telling carriers where to go.”
Appointment requests arrive by email, phone and fax. Dock assignments live on a whiteboard. Drivers show up unannounced, a load runs late, and you resequence the whole afternoon from memory — while people keep asking you what's on the yard right now.
- Appointment Schedule gives complete visibility of every inbound and outbound load
- Smart Yard "X-Ray Vision" shows what's inside a trailer without opening it
- Gate Module handles check-in and check-out without a phone call
- Smart Yard Automation takes driver move requests and applies your own scheduling rules
- Dock Module shows dwell times so you can see the bottleneck instead of guessing
What changes after go-live
NewCold went from 45–50 minutes and two or three people finding a lost trailer, to one click and about two minutes.
Carriers no longer need to call or email — they can see their assets with a restricted login, or get automated reports sent to them periodically. All without your people fielding a single phone call.
One reefer failure can erase a quarter's margin
“We found out the unit had been out of range for six hours.”
For food, pharma and pet care products, the hours a trailer spends in the yard are part of the chain of custody. A single reefer failure can destroy $70,000 or more in product before anyone notices. Manual temperature checks catch problems late, and a paper log won't survive an audit or a claim.
- Monitor up to three temperature zones per reefer — set point and actual, continuously
- Automated alerts when a unit breaches threshold or runs low on fuel
- Dock scheduling that prioritizes temperature-sensitive loads, with pre-cool reminders
- Live chain-of-custody records for every trailer
What changes after go-live
ColdPoint Logistics has completely avoided lost product since implementation — and doubled productivity.
Trusted by cold storage operators including ColdPoint Logistics and BGDC Distribution.
You've been handed enough rip-and-replace projects
“Whatever this is, it is not touching the WMS.”
Operations wants a yard tool. Engineering and IT want to know what it integrates with, who hosts it, and who owns the support burden forever. Say goodbye to manual, repetitive and time consuming tasks — without completely changing how your team already works.
- Fully web-based — accessible from any browser, no on-prem infrastructure, not tied to one device
- Integrates with WMS, TMS, GPS hardware and gate systems, or stands alone.
- Live in as little as six weeks, sitting alongside your existing stack rather than replacing it
What changes after go-live
Live in as little as six weeks — a bounded integration with a defined surface, not another multi-quarter platform migration.
We integrate with WMS systems and TMS systems all the time. In fact, we haven't found one we can't integrate with yet.
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Don’t Take Our Word For It
Manufacturers, CPG brands and cold chain operators on what changed in their yards after going live.
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Let’s Talk at Booth LL-10732
Book a time during PACK EXPO, Oct 18–21, and we'll have a demo ready for your facility. Most customers reach ROI in under six months.
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