Prepared for Diageo · ~150 sites · one network standard
The Yard Network System, by FreightRoll.
Your yards are the gap in your supply-chain stack. YardFlow fills it.
YardFlow is the Yard Network System: the software layer for the truck yards between your TMS and your WMS. Think EZ-Pass at the gate and air-traffic control for your trailers. It kills the paper and radios, puts every trailer on one live map, and cuts the turn. At Primo, drop-and-hook turns fell from 48 minutes to 24.
- $501.7M/yr
- modeled across the network
- $3.3M/yr
- added contribution margin per site
- 3.2 mo
- payback, before rollout completes
- The gapYour TMS runs the road, your WMS runs the building, nothing runs the yards.
- What it doesEZ-Pass at the gate, air-traffic control for trailers. No paper, no radios.
- The proofPrimo: turns 48 to 24 min, and first ever to commit all ~260 sites.
- The payoffMore throughput on the same footprint. No capex, no new heads.
Already live at scale · the Primo Brands network
The Yard Network System runs the yards behind these household brands. Live today, rolling to all ~260 sites.
The problem
Every yard "does it their own way." That is not strategy. That is drift.
Walk any two of Diageo's sites and you hear the same line: our yard is different.
It is not. Same trucks, same trailers, same moves. What differs is the workaround each site improvised, hardened into a process nobody chose. At the Plainfield IL flagship, 130 dock doors and two drop yards feed off one truck gate. A driver who guesses wrong walks into the dock office to ask where to drop. With only 1 of 10 audited sites rail-served, every spirits load rides a truck through that choke. Legacy YMS only ever reached the biggest site. The rest of the roughly 150 run on a guess.
The lost time lives in the gaps. Now multiply it across ~150 plants, each running its own version. YardFlow runs the whole network as one chain.
Why now
Every tier of your stack runs on live data. The yards never got the upgrade.
It is 2026, and your TMS, WMS, and ERP all run on live data.
The yards never got the upgrade. Detention starts at hour two and runs $50 to $100 an hour. Carriers now pick their shippers, and yards that burn a driver's afternoon lose you the good ones. Fix the yards and capacity you could not see starts to surface, which is more loads out the same doors. 5 of your 10 audited sites already run drop yards, where the win lands first.
The Yard Network System
A new layer of your stack, between the TMS and the WMS.
Every yard runs the same three jobs: check the driver in, place the trailer, turn the load. Legacy YMS only ever automated the biggest site, one at a time. The Yard Network System runs all three jobs across every site on one standard. flowDRIVER pulls the paper and radio out of the journey and keeps the driver in the truck. The operator console is a modern YMS, not an 80s system you wrestle with. flowGATE reads the truck at the gate and updates the console on its own. Think EZ-Pass at the gate and air-traffic control for your trailers. Four jobs: kill the paper, end the driver-to-employee handoff, keep the driver in the truck, cut the turn.
The proof · already at scale
No company had ever put its whole yard network on one system. Primo just did.
Primo Brands committed all ~260 of its sites to the Yard Network System. That had never happened: a national network standardizing every yard on one protocol instead of one flagship at a time. Live at 24 sites today, rolling to the rest. Where it runs, drop-and-hook turns fell from 48 minutes to 24, and Primo took on more volume on flat dock-office headcount.
“Your software enabled us to take on additional volume while remaining headcount neutral in the dock office. That was an integral part of our strategy, and it has been proven.”
Figures from the YardFlow deck and the live network. 24 sites live today, rolling out across the ~260-site commitment.
The prize, sized for Diageo
Across ~150 plants. Payback in 3.2 mo. Recovered throughput, avoided detention, and freed dock hours, every year.
Measured at Primo: $1M+ per site, turns 48 to 24. Modeled across Diageo's roughly 150 sites at your own margins, booking only 20 percent of the turn-time gain. Full method in the IRR table below. We will build your exact number with your team.
| Scenario | Payback | Monthly IRR |
|---|---|---|
| Paper-only savings | 21.9 mo | 1.66% |
| Hard savings | 7.8 mo | 19.92% |
| Full modeled value | 3.2 mo | 134.42% |
Monthly IRR from the YardFlow ROI model: monthly cash flows net of subscription, 24-month horizon. The paper-only scenario is the conservative floor.
What it touches
A new layer, not a new migration.
YardFlow runs in the yard and talks to the systems Diageo already has. Your TMS and WMS stay the systems of record. Nobody is ripping anything out.
Built for enterprise infosec review. We connect over your standard API or EDI and scope to yard operations, not your ERP of record. Full integration and security review happen in the audit.
- In the yardflowDRIVER (driver app, no install) and flowGATE (camera gate) run on YardFlow. Nothing changes on the plant floor.
- ReadsYour TMS appointments, over standard API or EDI.
- WritesGate and turn events back to your WMS, so dock and inventory stay current.
- IT liftOne connection per system. No rip-and-replace, no platform migration.
- Week 0Network audit from satellite. No IT lift.
- Weeks 1-2One site live. One TMS read, one WMS write.
- Day 60First measured turn-time win, on your dock.
- ThenStandardize across the network, on proven economics.
Your own audit
This is Diageo's own audit, not a generic benchmark. We mapped 10 North American sites from satellite. Here is what the handoffs cost.
- 5 of 10
- Already run drop yardswhere the 48 to 24 minute drop-and-hook win lands
- 9 of 10
- Long entry drives where queues buildpre-arrival check-in keeps the queue off the road
- 3 of 10
- Gated with a guard or boothflowGATE automates the check-in step
See all 10 sitesOpen the audit →Easy
Start at one site. Prove it in 60 days. Standardize from there.
Nothing gets ripped out to start. Begin at the Plainfield IL distribution warehouse, where 130 dock doors run the flagship US backbone. First measurable impact in 30 to 60 days, on the metric that hurts: trucks through the gate and onto a door. Then the same system rolls to the rest of the network, on economics that legacy YMS never allowed.
- 01Audit30 minutes. Map the network to archetypes.
- 02PilotPlainfield IL warehouse. 60 days to first impact.
- 03StandardizeThe network, on proven economics.
A problem you already own, a system already proven at Primo, a prize worth nine figures, and a first step that risks nothing. That is the brief.