H-E-B, audited.
13 of ~15 facilities (US scope)832 dock doors1,854 trailer spots1 rail-served
We core-sampled 13 of ~15 DCs, Public sources name 8 H-E-B Texas distribution centers plus 7 own-production plants; we satellite-audited 13 of those supply-chain facilities.
Network size: H-E-B Newsroom + trade press (Supply Chain Dive, Food Business News, Supermarket News): 8 named Texas distribution centers + 7 named H-E-B Manufacturing own-production plants; https://newsroom.heb.com/ (2026-06-19)
Public audit. Not affiliated with H-E-B. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited H-E-B’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
H-E-B’s stack is connected. The yards never were.
Your TMS runs the road. Your WMS runs the building. The yards are the tier between them, and they were never on the network.
Every truck gets re-keyed, re-queued, and re-found at each step. The lost time lives between the steps, which is why no single tool ever fixed it. The audit below is that gap, measured on your real yards.
A real audited site, played gate→dock→exit on the true yard geometry. Switch sites with the picker.
H-E-B Manufacturing - Houston Milk & Bread Plant - Houston TX
Driver rolls past the gate, looks for instructions on where to drop.
Movement durations are honest floors set by yard geometry; the uplift lands on the wait fields (queue + dispatch + secondary checkpoints). “Today” timings reflect the radios-and-clipboards world; “With YardFlow” reflects the protocol acting end-to-end. We may be wrong about parts of this, your actual numbers will tell us where.
What the handoffs cost across your network, and what removing them is worth
Read from satellite + Street View across all 13 facilities. At a comparable network, Primo Brands cut drop-and-hook turns from ~48 to ~24 min. Set your real volumes and margins in the calculator to put a number on it.
What surprised us reading H-E-B’s network
Three patterns held across the sites we sampled. None of them show up on a facility list. All of them change how the yard runs.
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The East Side Super Regional Grocery Warehouse in San Antonio runs 200 dock doors on 130 acres. H-E-B builds grocery DCs at industrial scale.
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Houston Milk & Bread is 22 acres of fresh dairy and bakery. H-E-B owns the supply chain to the SKU.
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832 dock doors across 13 audited sites. H-E-B routes more dock minutes per facility than any audited grocer.
Turn what you saw into a number for finance
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with H-E-B’s audited yards, set your real volumes and margins, and it sizes the opportunity to the dollar.
This deep-dive is the evidence behind the /for/h-e-b memo.
Are these your yards?
Tell us where we got it wrong, or see what 15 minutes of orchestration looks like on your worst site.
We are not asking for a pilot. We are asking for a conversation.
A 30-minute call, direct with Casey. We show you what we found across your yards, you tell us straight where it fits and where it does not. If the call goes well, we talk pilot. If not, you keep the analysis.
None of these times work? Email me at casey@freightroll.com or call or text me at 410-236-7434, and we’ll find one.
Casey Larkin, YardFlow. Jake, our founder, joins when it helps.
