Kenco · 24 US sites, mapped from satellite
The Yard Network System, by FreightRoll.
You already bought orchestration. It stops at the dock door.
In October 2025 Kenco committed five years to GreyOrange's GreyMatter orchestration platform. It started at one site in 2024, met its numbers, and is now committed across 20 sites with 50 more targeted. In April 2026 GreyOrange named Kenco its first Elite Partner of the Year. That is a company that already decided one orchestration layer beats a pile of point solutions.
GreyMatter orchestrates robots inside the building. YardFlow is the same idea one layer out: the orchestration layer for the yards, running the humans in spotter trucks today and whichever autonomous ones Kenco picks later. Our read is that the yards are the orchestration layer nobody has bought yet, and that is where the next capacity sits. That is a hypothesis, not a finding. We mapped 24 of your US sites from satellite and we still cannot see what runs them. You can.
- 24
- US sites mapped from satellite
- 1,676
- dock doors across the 24 audited sites
- 48 to 24 min
- trailer turn time, measured at Primo
- What you provedOne orchestration layer beat point solutions inside the four walls. One site in 2024, 20 committed, 50 targeted.
- The open questionGreyMatter was never built to run a gate. So what runs the yards, and does every site answer that the same way?
- Our readThe yards are the orchestration layer nobody bought. That is our hypothesis. You would know better than we would.
- Proof you can auditPrimo: turns 48 to 24 minutes, measured. About 5% more volume, observed, on flat dock-office headcount.
Already live at scale · the Primo Brands network
The Yard Network System runs the yards behind these household brands. Live today, rolling to 100% of the network.
The problem
Orchestration stops at the dock door.
GreyMatter assigns pick zones, balances workloads, and moves pallets point to point inside the building.
It was never built to run a gate. So the trailers feeding those robots arrive on whatever each site worked out for itself. We mapped 24 of your US sites from satellite. We count 1,676 dock doors, 20 drop yards, and 7 gates with a booth. We cannot see what runs them. That is the first thing we would ask you.
Why now
You already decided orchestration wins. You proved it inside the four walls.
One site in 2024.
It met its numbers. Now 20 sites are committed and 50 more targeted, on a five-year deal. In April GreyOrange named Kenco its first Elite Partner of the Year. One live DC reports 20% lower transportation cost from needing fewer trailers, 30% fewer pallets per order, and 80% more cases per hour. Fewer trailers is a yards number. It is the clearest signal in your own published results that the gate carries weight. In March you put Ainsley Williams over automation and the 30,000 square foot lab. Her mandate is the technology portfolio Kenco brings to its sites and its customers. The yards are the part of that portfolio nobody sells yet.
The Yard Network System
The orchestration layer for the yards. Robots and humans, one system.
GreyMatter orchestrates a certified network of robots from more than one vendor. YardFlow is that layer for the yards. The driver checks in from their phone with flowDRIVER. The spotter moves the trailer while a cab camera maps the yards with flowTWIN. flowYMS assigns the door. flowBOL retires the paperwork instead of reprinting it. flowNETWORK shows every site at once. Machine vision reads the truck at the gate and an agent dispatches the next move. Whichever autonomous spotter Kenco picks later plugs into the same layer, the way a Ranger plugs into GreyMatter. We are not the robot. We are what the robot runs on.
The proof · already at scale
No company had ever put its whole yard network on one system. Primo did. Kenco would be the first contract-logistics network to take it.
The point is not faster trucks. It is realized production capacity: 5% more volume out the door on the same headcount, capacity those plants could not ship before.
Primo started with one layer: the driver journey. Text the truck instead of checking it in. Paper out of the gate. The driver never walks to the dock office. That removed handoff is the whole mechanism. The dock office stopped working a person-by-person queue, so it absorbed volume instead of people. Across the 24 sites where it went live, those yards shipped about 5% more volume than comparable sites without it, on the same dock-office headcount. That result is why Primo committed all ~260 of its sites to the full Yard Network System, the first national shipper to put all its yards on one protocol. The YMS is rolling now. Live at 10 plants, every production site by the end of Q3. The 5% came from the lightest layer in the stack. The rest is still ahead.
“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.”
Result measured on the driver-journey layer, before the YMS rollout. Primo is live at 10 plants today, every production site by the end of Q3.
What it touches
A new layer, not a new migration.
YardFlow runs in the yards and talks to the systems you already have. Your TMS and WMS stay the systems of record. Nobody is ripping anything out, including GreyMatter.
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 yardsflowDRIVER (driver app, no install) and flowGATE (camera gate) run on YardFlow. Nothing changes on the warehouse floor.
- ReadsYour TMS appointments, over standard API or EDI.
- WritesGate and turn events back to your WMS, so dock and inventory stay current.
- Beside GreyMatterGreyMatter orchestrates inside the building. YardFlow orchestrates outside it. The dock door is the seam, not a fight.
- IT lift
Your own audit
This is Kenco's own read, not a benchmark. We mapped 24 of your US sites from satellite. These are counts, not conclusions. What we cannot see from orbit is which system runs each one, or whether any two of them agree.
- 20 of 24
- Run drop yardswhere the 48 to 24 minute drop-and-hook win lands
- 7 of 24
- Gated with a guard or boothflowGATE automates the check-in step the booth does by hand
- 23 of 24
- Long entry drives where queues buildpre-arrival check-in keeps the queue off the road
See all 24 sitesOpen the audit →We are not asking for a pilot. We are asking for a conversation.
A 30-minute call, direct with Casey. We show you the 24-site read and where we think the gate is costing you. You tell us where we are wrong. Two things we will say first, before you ask. We are not for operations where freight is hand-loaded onto local delivery trucks. That is not a yards problem and we will not pretend otherwise. And we will not tell you which site to start at. You already know how you do this. You did it with GreyMatter: one site, prove it, then the next twenty.
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.
