The J.M. Smucker Company, audited.
14 of ~20 facilities (NA scope)447 dock doors1,119 trailer spots6 rail-served
We core-sampled 14 of ~20 plants and DCs, The 14 audited plants represent Smucker's 20 US manufacturing facilities running the Jif, Folgers, Smucker, and Milk-Bone lines.
Network size: J.M. Smucker FY2025 Form 10-K, Item 2 Properties (fiscal year ended Apr 30, 2025): 20 US manufacturing and processing facilities. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000091419/000009141925000056/sjm-20250430.htm (2025-04-30)
Public audit. Not affiliated with The J.M. Smucker Company. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited The J.M. Smucker Company’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
The J.M. Smucker Company’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.
Smucker's Spreads/Toppings - Orrville OH
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 14 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 The J.M. Smucker Company’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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Uncrustables Longmont CO is 91.3 acres. The plant exists for a single product: frozen PB&J sandwiches.
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Topeka KS is 140 acres of pet food production. Milk-Bone and Meow Mix ship from here.
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447 dock doors across the 14 audited sites. Smucker runs efficient dock density per SKU.
Turn what you saw into a number for finance
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with The J.M. Smucker Company’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/jm-smucker 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.