24 of ~66 facilities2,961 dock doors8,640 trailer spots1 rail-served
We core-sampled 24 of ~66 DCs, We mapped 24 identifiable facilities across the regional DC, food DC, import, and upstream flow-center types, biggest to smallest; the yard pattern held across all of them.
Network size: Target FY2024 Form 10-K, Item 2 Properties: 66 supply chain facilities (distribution, sortation, and other), as of 2025-02-01 (https://corporate.target.com/investors/annual/2024-annual-report/10-k-report/10-k-part-i/item-2-properties) (FY2024 10-K)
Public audit. Not affiliated with Target. 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 24 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.
Across 24 facilities we found exactly one rail link, at Tifton GA. Every other load in or out moves by truck through the gate.
Rialto CA carries 320 dock doors on 160 acres behind a single truck gate, so the network's largest building has its narrowest entrance.
Lugoff SC holds 1,200 trailer spots against 238 dock doors on under 70 acres, the tightest trailer-to-door ratio we measured.
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with Target’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/target 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.