Tractor Supply Company · 11 distribution centers, mapped from satellite
The Yard Network System, by FreightRoll.
Your yards are the gap in your supply-chain stack. YardFlow fills it.
You self-distribute to every store from 11 regional DCs, and you run them tight. Nine of the 11 gate the truck and seven keep a staffed booth, tighter control than most grocers we map. But every yard sits on open rural land, where trailers stage outside the fence before a single gate, and that check-in pinch is where the network chokes.
YardFlow is the Yard Network System, the software bridge between your TMS and your WMS. You already treat the gate as a checkpoint. We make every trailer legible from that gate to the dock, on one standard across all 11 DCs. At Primo, drop-and-hook turns fell from 48 minutes to 24. The autonomous yard everyone wants is built on exactly this, a yard the system can finally see.
- The gapYour TMS runs the road, your WMS runs the building, nothing runs the yards.
- What we doOne digital standard for all 11 DCs. EZ-Pass at the gate, air-traffic control for the trailers.
- The proofPrimo: 5%+ capacity gain at every location, first ever to commit all ~260 sites.
- The payoffReduce turn times, free dock capacity, eliminate paper and detention. No change to headcount.
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 modeled prize
Proven at Primo, modeled for your 11 US plants
The problem
You gate every yard. The gate is still a manual choke point.
You run tight yards.
Nine of your 11 DCs gate the truck and seven keep a staffed booth. But every DC sits on open rural land, and trailers stage outside the fence before one gate. A guard with a clipboard meters the whole network. The control is real, the data is not.
The lost time lives in the gaps. Now multiply it across ~11 plants, each running its own version. YardFlow runs the whole network as one chain.
Why now
The freight cycle is turning, and the gate is where you lose the driver.
Pricing power is swinging back to carriers as capacity tightens.
The next spot market punishes shippers whose yards burn a driver's afternoon. Detention starts at hour two and runs $50 to $100 an hour, and carriers now pick their shippers. Every clipboard check-in at a rural gate is time the driver remembers. The autonomous yard everyone talks about runs on a digital substrate you do not have yet. Build it now and you cut detention today while you lay the groundwork for what comes next.
The Yard Network System
One standard between your TMS and your WMS, at every DC.
Every yard runs the same three jobs: check the driver in, place the trailer, turn the load. You run them by hand at a staffed gate today. The Yard Network System runs all three on one standard across all 11 DCs. flowDRIVER pulls the paper and radio out of the driver journey. The operator console is a modern YMS your WMS can read and write. 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. The guard stops metering and starts managing.
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The driver journey, standardized at every DC. No paper, no radio, no app to install.
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Cameras read the truck at the gate and update the YMS, so the booth stops doing it by hand.
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flowTWINOperator console
Every trailer on one live map. The modern YMS the gate and the driver journey both feed.
Open liveThe 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 has never happened before, 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. Tractor Supply would be the first farm and ranch retailer to do it.
“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.
Sized conservatively, on purpose
Using actual results from Primo, we modeled the prize across your 11 DCs.
Primo measured the full turn-time gain. We booked a conservative slice of it across your 11 DCs and counted a plain $1,000 a load. The headline number is the floor, not the ceiling.
Every figure is the YardFlow ROI engine output, the same one /demo/tractor-supply renders, not a slide number. The paper-only row in the table below is the conservative floor.
| Scenario | Payback | Monthly IRR |
|---|---|---|
| Paper-only savings | 20.5 mo | 2.92% |
| Hard savings | 7.0 mo | 24.98% |
| Full modeled value | 3.5 mo | 101.77% |
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 you already have. 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. Your guards and gates keep working.
- 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 1-2Navarre live. One TMS read, one WMS write.
- Day 60First measured turn-time win, on your dock.
- ThenStandardize across the 11, on proven economics.
Your own audit
This is Tractor Supply's own audit, not a generic benchmark. We mapped all 11 DCs from satellite. Here is what the manual gate costs today, and where the standard lands first.
- 10 of 11
- Run drop yardswhere the 48 to 24 minute drop-and-hook win lands
- 9 of 11
- Gated with a guard or boothflowGATE automates the check-in step the booth does by hand
- 10 of 11
- Long entry drives where queues buildpre-arrival check-in keeps the queue off the road
See all 11 sitesOpen the audit →Easy
Start at Navarre. Pull the paper first. Measure the turn.
Nothing gets ripped out to start. Begin at the Navarre flagship, 900,000 square feet behind a gate that already runs remote check-in. Pull the paper and radios out of the driver journey and measure the turn in 30 to 60 days. Then the same standard rolls to Waco, Casa Grande and the rest, on economics a per-site YMS never allowed.
A network you already gate, a fix proven at Primo, a prize modeled at $20.2M a year, and a first step that risks nothing. That is the brief.