Demand-Driven Yard Planning
What we deliver
The Problem (Before)
Without clean data, staffing stays on fixed shift schedules built on gut feel — not actual demand. The data to right-size spotter teams already exists in Dynamic Yard and Appointment Manager. It's just never been combined into a forward-looking plan.
Warehouse & Logistics Manager, Facility Manager, Dock Supervisor
The Outcome (After)
A compliance agent flags incomplete or sub-120-second task completions and captures unplanned moves (shuttle, OTR assist, inter-site), surfacing per-spotter compliance in a weekly scorecard. A staffing agent combines historical moves-per-hour with forward-looking Dynamic Yard task volume and Appointment Manager demand to recommend per-shift headcount for ops review.
Fixed shift schedules are set on gut feel, not demand. FourKites uniquely combines yard task-compliance data with appointment volume and network benchmarks to produce a data-driven staffing recommendation — replacing experience-based headcount calls with evidence-based ones.
How it works
Dynamic Yard tracks task step-through compliance, flags sub-120-second completions, and logs previously untracked moves (shuttle, OTR assist, inter-site) as a separate category. A staffing agent combines historical moves-per-hour with forward-looking appointment and order volume to recommend per-shift headcount before each shift.
Spotter efficiency benchmarks by facility type and shift pattern; moves-per-hour norms across the network for right-sizing calibration
This intelligence exists because the Graph aggregates behavior across 882 enterprise shippers, 10,164 carriers, and 3.6 million facilities over 11 years.
Fixed shift schedules are set on gut feel and historical patterns, not actual demand. No competitor combines yard task compliance data with appointment volume and network benchmarks to produce a data-driven staffing recommendation. This replaces headcount decisions based on experience with decisions based on evidence. The intelligence layer is what creates the gap. Building the basic capability is straightforward. Building it on top of 11 years of cross-company facility and yard intelligence is what cannot be replicated with software alone.
Yard Twin
Cross-company facility and yard intelligence powering every decision
Custom Insights: spotter compliance dashboard; Custom Insights: task completion and per-shift staffing recommendation analytics.
Yard Intelligence and Optimization
- Multi-Site Yard Intelligence and Predictive Capacity Planning
- Revenue-Aware Yard Prioritization
- Predictive Facility Capacity Planning
- Autonomous Yard Decisioning
- Yard Workforce Performance Intelligence
Validation
Deployment Evidence
Expected Impact Range
Related outcomes
Every trailer in the yard: located, identified, and tracked in real time.
Gate staffing eliminated. 100% automated check-in and check-out using computer vision.
Spotter tasks dispatched and optimized automatically. No radio, no whiteboard, no guesswork.
One billion hours of operational work completed by AI agents over the next decade.
