Freshness is Predictability
Every plant and DC on one protocol.
High-velocity beverage and food networks lose hours to detention and dwell variance. YardFlow makes every yard run the same, so a turn in Ontario looks like a turn in Allentown.
Drop & hook turn, halved
48 → 24 min
Primo Brands, live
On one protocol
26 sites
Live across the US
Modeled annual gain
$1M+/site
Off Primo's proven economics
Real networks, already mapped
We have audited food & beverage yards from orbit.
Every template on this page runs against a real audited footprint. Public satellite imagery, modeled geofences, a 22-field classification per site. Open any network to walk the map.
AuditedThe Coca-Cola CompanyBottling plants and DCs, drop-yard heavy30 of ~270 sites1,059 dock doorsWalk the mapped network
AuditedFrito-LayHigh-velocity snack DCs, peak-load sensitive28 of ~40 sites1,218 dock doorsWalk the mapped network
AuditedMondelez InternationalPlants and DCs feeding retail and foodservice17 of ~81 sites623 dock doorsWalk the mapped networkThe problem
The yard caps the plant
In food and beverage the yard is the cap on what the plant can ship.
- A truck stuck at the gate is a case that never left the dock
- Detention bleeds margin at every high-volume DC, dwell drifts plant to plant, and cold chain exceptions stay silent until the load is a write-off
- Unify the yards and the same plants and DCs move more product on the same headcount.
Root causes
Where the capacity leaks
The friction points between a truck at your gate and product out the door.
Leak 01
Detention at Volume
At a high-velocity DC, every minute of detention is multiplied by hundreds of loads a day.
Leak 02
Plant-to-DC Drift
Bottling plants and DCs each run the yard their own way, so there is no network baseline to improve against.
Leak 03
Silent Cold Chain Risk
Setpoint drift and dwell aging surface after the damage, not before.
Leak 04
Seasonal Surge
Peak demand swings dwell and detention with no system to absorb it.
The protocol
What to Standardize First
A turn should look the same at every site. Standardize the yards, then the network compounds.
Execution Standards
- Driver check-in and appointment verification at every gate.
- Dwell and detention clocks running on every load, every site.
- Digital BOL capture so the clipboard never enters the yard.
Data Standards
- Exception alerts for dwell aging and cold chain deviation.
- One network view of turn time across plants and DCs.
- Carrier identity checks for high-value freight.
Standards compound across the network / the second site is faster than the first
The system
The YardFlow Solution
Under all five: camera vision reads the truck and whatever it pulls at the gate (flowGATE), computer vision on the spotter truck maps the yard (flowVISION), and an agent dispatches the next move (flowAI).
Role 01flowDRIVER
Stop paying people to talk to truck drivers.
It is 2026. Text them. It is faster. No app to download, no guard shack, no clipboard, no training: the driver checks in from the cab and gets routed wherever they need to go, a door or a drop spot. Handles all scenarios. Gate or no gate.
Trucks get in without waiting in line.
- Nothing to download; carriers and drivers onboard themselves
- The camera reads the truck and whatever it pulls on arrival: a trailer, or a chassis with or without a container
- Routed to the assigned door in one message
- SCANPlate ABC-1182
- VERIFIEDChassis 53291
- ROUTEDDoor D7
no app · no guard · 0:42 at gate
Role 02flowVISION
Know where every trailer is. Without the pucks.
Trailer tracking the old way is a tag on every trailer and a reader on every post: cumbersome, expensive, and still wrong. Ours is passive. A camera in the spotter cab maps the yards from the moves the spotter already makes, with a fraction of the hardware and deployment time, and better accuracy.
The yards always know where every trailer is.
- A live yard map built passively from real moves
- No tags, no readers, no manual counts
- More accurate than RFID, with a fraction of the hardware
Role 03flowYMS
Every yard needs a brain.
Not the top quartile. Every one. The right door is assigned and the DC watches every dock at once, on screens that stay live instead of minutes behind. Easy to learn, and built to pay for itself at low-volume yards too.
The dock is ready before the truck parks.
- Every door's live state on one screen, and it stays fresh
- The right door assigned the moment a truck checks in
- Exceptions surface first, before they breach
D1
loading
D2
staged
D3
open
D4
loading
D5
breach
D6
staged
1 breach risk surfaced first
Role 04flowBOL
Paper is expensive. Chasing it is worse.
Three copies of a BOL is embarrassing and costly, and the cost lands later, when a billing dispute sends someone back to the warehouse to find it. The BOL is captured and signed in the driver flow, timestamped, with a chain of custody that holds up. Digital from the gate to the dock.
Signed, timestamped, and it holds up.
- BOL captured and signed inside the driver flow
- A digital chain of custody, timestamped
- Works with the BOLs and the WMS you already have
- Gate in08:14:22
- Door D708:31:05
- BOL stamped09:02:47
digital · timestamped · holds up
Proof
Proof, Not Promises
Primo Brands runs 26 facilities live on YardFlow, plants and DCs on one protocol.
Pick a time and you are on the calendar.
Thirty minutes, direct with Casey Larkin. Pick an open time below and you are booked.
None of these times work? Email me at casey@yardflow.ai or call or text me at 410-236-7434, and we’ll find one.
Casey Larkin, YardFlow. Jake Koppinger, our founder, joins when it helps.