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YardWorks AI: Warehouse and Network Finally Connected

Despite billions invested in warehouse robotics and transportation systems, the yard remains supply chain’s forgotten middle mile. Up to 92% of facilities still rely on clipboards and radios, creating a costly bottleneck where warehouse operations and transportation networks should seamlessly connect.

YardWorks AI transforms this critical intersection by integrating yard operations with the FourKites’ Intelligent Control Tower™, eliminating traditional blind spots between warehouse and transportation networks and replacing manual processes with AI-driven automation. As each component works together, they amplify your entire supply chain’s effectiveness—turning the once-neglected yard into a strategic competitive advantage.

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Digital Foundation: Facility Twin

The Facility Twin creates a comprehensive digital model of your yard that updates in real time, giving you complete visibility and control over all aspects of your operations.

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Dynamic Yard® (YMS)

The backbone of yard management, Dynamic Yard provides a real-time digital representation of your entire facility, tracking every asset and movement with precision.

  • See your yard layout and operations in real time
  • Gain comprehensive visibility across all facilities and trailer positions
  • Benefit from automated spotter task management and assignment
  • Prevent detention costs with proactive monitoring
  • Configure site maps and zones to match your unique needs

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Facility Scheduling

The intelligent facility scheduling system, AutoBooker, creates a unified calendar that connects you with vendors, receivers, and carriers, leveraging real-time network data to maintain accurate timelines even as conditions change.

  • Access a shared intelligent calendar visible to all stakeholders
  • Watch as scheduling adjusts proactively to network conditions
  • Benefit from integration with real-time ETAs for accurate appointment windows
  • Eliminate conflicts with automated detection and resolution
  • Synchronize warehouse, carrier, and supplier scheduling
  • Prevent bottlenecks with proactive capacity management

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Asset Twin

Asset Twin gives you complete visibility and control over every trailer, container, and piece of equipment in your yard, integrating with IoT sensors to deliver real-time condition monitoring and alerts.

  • Maintain a complete digital inventory of trailers, containers, and equipment
  • Monitor conditions in real time through IoT sensor integration
  • Ensure cold chain compliance with temperature monitoring for refrigerated trailers
  • Optimize your private fleet with performance analytics and utilization insights
  • Receive automated alerts for maintenance needs, compliance issues, and exceptions
  • Track trailer locations with geofencing capabilities
  • Improve continuously with historical performance data

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AI-Powered Automation

YardWorks AI’s Digital Workforce and AI automation transform your yard operations by autonomously executing routine decisions and tasks, freeing your team to focus on strategic priorities.

Alan

Alan: Scheduling Automation Expert

Alan revolutionizes your appointment scheduling by unifying fragmented processes across all communication channels, handling everything from initial booking to last-minute changes.

  • Reduce scheduling team workload by 50% through intelligent automation
  • Unify appointment management across email, portals, and phone channels
  • Eliminate rescheduling headaches with seamless, automated adjustments
  • Access a single source of truth for all appointment information
  • Scale appointment volumes without adding headcount
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AutoGate AI

AutoGate AI: Autonomous Gate System

AutoGate AI eliminates gate bottlenecks and manual check-in processes, using computer vision and mobile technology to validate trucks and guide drivers efficiently.

  • Speed up check-in times from 5-10 minutes to under 2 minutes
  • Save $70-150K annually per facility by eliminating gate guards
  • Identify and validate trucks and trailers automatically with computer vision
  • Improve traffic flow with clear driver instructions delivered digitally
  • Enable 24/7 secure operations without staffing constraints
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AutoBooker

AutoBooker: Smart Site Calendars

AutoBooker transforms your facilities’ scheduling processes by connecting to your load plans and network for a truly hands-free scheduling experience.

  • Reduce scheduling time by linking load plans to your calendar
  • Enhance calendar reliability with ETA-driven automatic rescheduling
  • Create custom calendars tailored to your unique business rules, such as commodity, duration, customer, and more
  • Access comprehensive reporting across your entire network to promote benchmarking and continuous improvement with a credible data source
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Dynamic Yard

Dynamic Yard: Intelligent Orchestration Throughout the Yard

Dynamic Yard powers the yards of Fortune 500 shippers who look to reduce detention fees, optimize labor, and maximize throughput.

  • Automatically assign spotter tasks based on queues or proximity
  • Proactively alert teams to detention fees to maximize cost savings
  • Integrate SKU-level data to quickly retrieve needed inventory faster and more efficiently
  • Access intuitive reporting by site or across your network to benchmark and drive continuous improvement initiatives
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Real-Time Network

YardWorks AI connects your yard to the broader supply chain ecosystem, creating a seamless flow of information that enables truly synchronized operations.

Real-Time Network Visibility

Leverage the world’s largest supply chain visibility network to anticipate arrivals and disruptions before they impact your facility, allowing for proactive rather than reactive management.

  • Know exactly when shipments will arrive with accurate predictive ETAs
  • Track carrier locations and status in real time
  • Get alerted to disruptions before they impact your yard
  • Receive advanced notification of schedule changes or exceptions
  • Connect to the world’s largest carrier network for unmatched visibility

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Computer Vision

Advanced computer vision technology eliminates your need for expensive RFID infrastructure while providing continuous monitoring of your yard with greater accuracy and less maintenance.

  • Monitor trailers without the expense of RFID tags or hardware infrastructure
  • Identify and validate trailers automatically
  • Conduct continuous yard checks without manual effort
  • Verify security at entrance and exit points
  • Document trailer conditions with visual evidence

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Systems Integration

YardWorks AI seamlessly connects with your existing systems, creating a unified flow of information across your entire supply chain technology stack.

  • Connect seamlessly to your TMS, WMS, and ERP systems
  • Maintain bi-directional data flow with warehouse management systems
  • Synchronize automatically with transportation planning
  • Integrate with your supplier and customer systems
  • Leverage API-first architecture for flexible connectivity

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Transformation in Action: Before & After YardWorks AI

See how YardWorks AI revolutionizes every aspect of your yard operations, delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and performance.

BEFORE
AFTER
Check-In Process
Before
Your drivers wait in long lines while gate attendants manually collect information, make calls to verify appointments, and issue paper instructions. Average wait time: 5–10+ minutes per truck.
After
Your drivers scan QR codes or get automatically identified by computer vision. Digital verification happens in seconds, and clear site instructions are presented directly to the driver. Average time: under 2 minutes.
Yard Dispatching
Before
Your dispatchers spend hours creating move lists, repeatedly walking the yard for checks, and making countless radio calls to spotters. Trailers sit idle waiting for instructions.
After
Spotters access real-time information at their fingertips with either move tasks pushed by dispatch, assigned automatically by the platform, or even generated by where they are in the yard. Spotters receive clear instructions instantly reducing downtime
Detention Management
Before
Your finance team discovers detention charges weeks after they occur. Your facilities have no systematic way to identify at-risk trailers until it's too late.
After
You receive proactive alerts identifying trailers approaching detention thresholds, and Dynamic Yard can automatically prioritize their movement. Your detention costs decrease by 40–80%, often saving hundreds of thousands annually.
Appointment Scheduling
Before
Your schedulers spend 50% of their day switching between emails, portals, and phone calls. Appointments are tracked in spreadsheets with limited visibility across teams.
After
Alan automatically handles booking across all channels, follows up on confirmations, and manages changes. Your scheduling teams focus on exceptions only, cutting manual work by more than half.
Warehouse-Yard Coordination
Before
Your warehouse teams have no visibility into yard inventory, leading to inefficient dock assignments and critical shipments sitting idle while less important ones are processed.
After
Real-time integration connects your warehouse and yard management system to help with prioritization. Teams can find critical inventory and avoid costly expedites, all while createing dock assignments with a simple drag and drop
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Learn how Kimberly-Clark used FourKites to reduce detention fees by 52% in just 30 days

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The Strategic Value of YardWorks AI

YardWorks AI delivers transformative value across multiple dimensions of your business, creating both immediate operational improvements and long-term strategic advantages.

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Cost Reduction

YardWorks AI dramatically reduces your operational costs through automation, optimization, and proactive management of key cost drivers.

  • Eliminate 70-80% of manual labor costs in yard operations
  • Reduce detention and demurrage fees by proactively managing at-risk trailers
  • Prevent expedited shipping costs through better coordination
  • Eliminate TONU (Truck Order Not Used) charges with optimized appointments
  • Cut overtime expenses through improved resource planning
labor optimization

Labor Optimization

Transform how your team works by automating routine tasks and enabling them to focus on high-value activities that drive strategic advantage.

  • Free your skilled workers from repetitive coordination tasks
  • Enable your yard teams to manage by exception rather than routine
  • Scale your operations without proportionally increasing headcount
  • Maintain consistent execution across shifts and facilities
  • Transform dispatcher roles from tactical coordinators to strategic managers
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Warehouse-Network Coordination

Break down the barriers between your warehouse operations and transportation networks, creating a synchronized flow that optimizes your entire supply chain.

  • Align trailer movements with warehouse inventory priorities
  • Synchronize dock door assignments with production and shipping schedules
  • Adjust yard operations based on real-time transportation ETAs
  • Prevent warehouse congestion with proactive yard flow management
  • Create seamless information flow between facilities and transportation
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Inventory Utilization

Improve your inventory performance through better prioritization, faster processing, and more intelligent resource allocation.

  • Prioritize unloading based on critical inventory needs
  • Prevent stockouts by expediting high-priority shipments
  • Reduce safety stock requirements with more predictable operations
  • Improve inventory velocity through faster trailer processing
  • Enable 24/7 operations for increased throughput

Transform Your Supply Chain

FourKites supports the world’s most complex supply chains. Whether it’s life-saving medicine or groceries for family dinner, FourKites helps you deliver.

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