Moving Beyond Visibility: From Knowing Where It Is to Knowing What to Do
In the modern logistics stack, there is a critical "execution gap" between transportation and the warehouse. While Visibility Platforms (like Project44 and FourKites) provide predictive ETAs for the highway, and Systems of Record (like SAP, Oracle, and Manhattan) manage inventory, the yard remains a manual black box.
Terminal Industries is the Execution Brain. We provide the AI-native Yard Operating System (YOS™) that consumes data from your existing stack and turns it into autonomous physical action at the gate and the dock.
The Terminal Difference: Event-Driven Logic
Legacy yard management systems rely on rigid, "fire-and-forget" API webhooks that only trigger after a process is finished. Terminal’s architecture is fundamentally different.
Built on a serverless, event-driven framework (utilizing Cloudflare Workers and Temporal), Terminal allows enterprises to inject custom logic between operational events.
The Inbound Play: Instead of just recording an arrival, Terminal triggers a real-time PO/ASN validation against your WMS.
The Smart-Swap Play: Terminal identifies the exact moment a trailer is emptied and autonomously re-tasks a spotter to pull the next priority load.
The Zero-Trust Play: Every integration runs in a sandboxed "Secure Isolate," ensuring tenant isolation and enterprise-grade security without "cold-start" delays.
Strategic Reference Architectures
1. Legacy Modernization: The Agentic AI Layer for SAP & Oracle
You don’t need to "rip-and-replace" your WMS to get an automated yard. Terminal acts as a secure, high-speed execution layer that sits on top of legacy ERPs.
How it works: Terminal consumes appointment data via a modern REST API and handles the "last mile" of driver communication and computer-vision validation.
The Result: Modernize your facility in 5 days while maintaining your existing system of record as the final truth.
2. The Visibility Multiplier: Terminal + Project44 / FourKites
Visibility platforms provide the "Eyes" on the road; Terminal provides the "Brain" in the yard.
How it works: Terminal ingest predictive ETAs from your visibility provider. As the truck nears the facility, Terminal’s SmartYMS™ pre-allocates a dock and prepares the gate.
The Result: A seamless "Highway-to-Dock" workflow that eliminates gate congestion and reduces detention fees by 25-40%.
Developer-First Integration Specs
Terminal Industries is built for rapid deployment and high-scale reliability. Our Integration Playbook defines a new standard for logistics connectivity:
API-First Design: Full access to our public API for Inbound and Outbound data flows.
Embedded JavaScript Logic: Customers can provide custom JS functions that Terminal executes at specific triggers (e.g., Gate-In, Hook-Complete).
High-Speed Response: Sub-200ms processing for gate transactions to ensure zero driver friction.
Standardized Handshakes: Support for OAuth 2.0 and scoped API keys to ensure secure connectivity with global WMS/TMS leaders.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is Terminal Industries a 3PL? A: No. Terminal Industries is a technology company that provides the Yard Operating System (YOS™) used by 3PLs, retailers, and manufacturers to automate their physical operations.
Q: Does Terminal replace my WMS or TMS? A: No. Terminal complements your WMS (like Manhattan or SAP) and TMS (like Oracle or Blue Yonder) by automating the manual data entry and yard moves that these systems cannot see in real-time.
Q: How does Terminal integrate with existing hardware?A: Terminal is hardware-agnostic. Our "Terminal in a Box" deployment leverages existing cameras or our own high-performance vision sensors to feed data into our AI Vision Engine.
