15 of ~57 facilities (NA scope)799 dock doors2,260 trailer spots4 rail-served
We core-sampled 15 of ~57 plants and DCs, The 15 audited NA sites are representative of Kimberly-Clark's 57-facility North American freight network of mills and distribution centers.
Network size: Kimberly-Clark NA freight network: 18 manufacturing facilities + 39 distribution centers (Supply Chain Dive, 2025-05-05, citing K-C's Beech Island plant presentation); manufacturing anchored to KMB FY2025 10-K Item 2 (27 NA production facilities). https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/kimberly-clark-huggies-kleenex-2-billion-us-ohio-south-carolina-facilities/747019/ (2025-05-05)
Public audit. Not affiliated with Kimberly-Clark. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
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.
No guard. Driver finds the call box, hits the buzzer, waits for someone inside to respond.
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.
Read from satellite + Street View across all 15 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.
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.
Warren OH is 560 acres of advanced manufacturing. The walk from gate to dock is longer than most networks' entire site.
DuPont WA DC runs 130 dock doors. K-C ships consumer staples at scale.
Inbound pulp and outbound finished paper both move on the same yard. Two flows, one queue.
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with Kimberly-Clark’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/kimberly-clark memo.
Tell us where we got it wrong, or see what 15 minutes of orchestration looks like on your worst site.
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.
