The Home Depot, audited.
30 of ~500 facilities (NA scope)4,456 dock doors8,030 trailer spots2 rail-served
We core-sampled 30 of ~500 DCs, We mapped 30 representative DCs across the rapid-deployment, bulk, flatbed, and direct-fulfillment platforms, biggest to smallest; the yard pattern held across all of them.
Network size: The Home Depot FY2024 Form 10-K, Item 2 Properties: over 500 distribution and fulfillment centers and warehouses (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/000035495025000085/hd-20250202.htm) (FY2024 10-K)
Public audit. Not affiliated with The Home Depot. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited The Home Depot’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
The Home Depot’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.
Home Depot RDC - Dallas TX
Truck queues at the gate. Guard checks paper BOL, runs the plate, types data into a screen, prints a gate pass.
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 30 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 Home Depot’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.
- 01
Mira Loma CA runs 360 dock doors. That's more docks than three NFL stadiums have parking gates combined.
- 02
2 of 30 audited sites are rail-served. Retail RDCs are truckload pipelines, not multimodal.
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4,456 total dock doors across 30 sites. Retail runs the most dock minutes per site in the dataset.
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 Home Depot’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/the-home-depot 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.