Get More Out of WMS/TMS
You’ve invested in a WMS to optimize your warehouse and a TMS to streamline transportation, but bottlenecks, yard delays, and frustrated carriers persist. The problem isn’t your systems, it’s the yard. The yard is where planned efficiency meets operational chaos, and without real-time visibility, it remains a blind spot.
The Problem
Most traditional Yard Management Systems (YMS) focus on optimizing individual tasks rather than orchestrating the entire yard. They rely heavily on manual inputs and fragmented processes, leaving blind spots and delays that prevent your WMS and TMS from operating at full efficiency. Without real-time, end-to-end visibility, critical yard data—like trailer status, spotter movements, and dock availability—never reaches your warehouse or transportation systems. As a result, your investments in WMS and TMS are underutilized, and the yard remains a data black hole, and your operations at risk.
The Solution
Terminal Yard Operating SystemTM connects the "brain" of your TMS with the "body" of your WMS. With real-time gate-to-dock visibility, we track every asset and event, creating a single source of truth across your operation. Manual guesswork, phone calls, and spreadsheets are replaced with automation and clarity.
Terminal ensures your WMS operates at peak efficiency by providing real-time yard data, enabling pre-planned labor and resources, and accelerating dock operations.
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Trailer arrivals automatically update your WMS, allowing teams to stage labor and equipment for seamless receiving.
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Optimized yard jockey movements ensure trailers are in the right place at the right time, eliminating idle dock time.
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Real-time updates on appointments allow dynamic adjustments to doors and labor, preventing costly backlogs.
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By providing real-time visibility into trailers, a YOS enables the WMS to conduct more accurate cycle counts and inventory reconciliations, reducing discrepancies and saving audit time.
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Terminal YOSTM can inform the WMS of high-priority inbound loads (e.g., just-in-time inventory), allowing the WMS to dynamically adjust receiving plans and allocate resources for faster turnaround.
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Our AI-enabled system will detect issues, diagnose root causes, and take intelligent corrective actions in real-time across all prescribed yard missions.
Terminal turns your yard into a strategic asset for TMS-driven operations, reducing detention fees, improving carrier relations, and enhancing fleet utilization.
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Real-time trailer status feeds directly to your TMS, creating a single source of truth.
Automatic alerts when dwell times exceed thresholds, preventing unnecessary costs.
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TMS can make smarter carrier assignments and route decisions based on exact trailer locations, reducing empty miles and delays.
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The YOSTM provides granular data on a carrier's yard turn times, enabling the TMS to generate performance reports and identify partners who consistently meet or exceed service level agreements.
A YOSTM gives the TMS a real-time count and location of empty trailers in the yard, allowing it to automatically identify available assets for new outbound trips, reducing unnecessary repositioning and wait times.
Our AI-enabled system will detect issues, diagnose root causes, and take intelligent corrective actions in real-time across all prescribed yard missions.
Platform
From gate to dock, Terminal is designed to automate workflows, optimize worker productivity, and deliver maximum visibility of every asset and movement in the yard.
Real-Time Visibility and Workflow Automation
Optimize Loading and Improve Dock Efficiency
A Unified, Connected Data-Driven System
Get More out of Your WMS/TMS with Terminal
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The modern yard: from blind spot to control tower For years, the yard was the least digitized link in the supply chain—caught between trucking schedules and warehouse priorities, dependent on phones, clipboards, and good luck.
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Terminal is a purpose-built, AI-native Yard Operating System (YOS) that provides end-to-end orchestration and automation across the entire yard, from gate to dock and across the network. Manhattan YMS, while effective within its ecosystem, is primarily a module of Manhattan’s broader WMS and TMS offerings. Terminal’s focus on AI and computer vision for yard operations delivers a standalone, full-stack solution that provides deeper visibility, automation, and real-time decision-making compared to a WMS-dependent add-on.
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The logistics industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and rising customer expectations have revealed critical weaknesses in traditional warehouse operations. At the heart of these issues is a often-overlooked problem: the yard.
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Yard management software has become a critical tool for modern supply chain logistics, transforming how distribution centers and warehouses handle the complex choreography of inbound and outbound shipments. At its core, YMS digitizes and automates the movement of trailers, trucks, and cargo within the yard—that often-overlooked space between the gate and the dock where inefficiencies can silently drain your operational budget.
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Modern supply chain operations rely on two critical systems to manage the flow of goods from arrival to departure. A Yard Management System (YMS) orchestrates activities in the yard area, tracking trailers, managing dock assignments, and coordinating vehicle movements. Meanwhile, a Warehouse Management System (WMS) handles internal warehouse operations, from inventory management to order fulfillment and shipping processes.
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The modern logistics landscape demands precision, efficiency, and seamless coordination between multiple moving parts. At the heart of this complex ecosystem lies the carrier management solution – a specialized piece of logistics software that transforms how businesses interact with their transportation carriers. These sophisticated platforms serve as the central nervous system for managing carrier relationships, optimizing freight operations, and ensuring reliable delivery performance across your supply chain network.
Here are the most common hurdles to technology adoption in the yard. Choose the one that is holding you back to see how Terminal can help.
Yards traditionally rely on manual processes and are resistant to change. This ingrained culture makes it difficult to introduce new technology. Terminal's approach provides a strong ROI case to business leaders, making the financial benefits of change compelling, while its simple, turnkey deployment and managed infrastructure reduce the friction of adoption.
Workers worry about losing their jobs to new technology. This fear can lead to resistance from frontline staff and create a negative environment for adoption. Terminal uses a human-in-the-loop onboarding process that redefines roles, allowing staff to be redeployed to higher-value tasks, and provides ongoing support, which alleviates job security fears.
Customers are wary of new solutions due to past failures with other vendors. This long memory of past disappointments makes them cautious about investing again. Terminal builds trust with referenceable customers and proven performance, demonstrating a faster time-to-value (5 days vs. competitors' 5+ months) and lower deployment costs through rapid, successful results.
Operators are afraid that new technology will break their existing, established, and profitable processes. This fear of risk outweighs the upside benefits for many companies. Terminal’s simple, turnkey deployment model and modular, on/off capability minimize this risk, allowing customers to start small and integrate the solution without a complete overhaul of their operations.
New interconnected yard systems introduce new vulnerabilities and data management risks. Companies with legacy systems or fragmented operations are especially vulnerable to these threats. As a fully managed solution with a unified, cloud-based platform, Terminal provides a secure, single-source system that is inherently more secure than managing a fragmented collection of different legacy tools.
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