"Looking to bring order to a chaotic freight yard? There's an app for that.

The yard of a large and busy distribution operation may seem a chaotic place, with trucks entering and leaving, yard jockeys whisking trailers to and from dock doors, and all of it happening rapidly and with virtually no break in the action."

"Gollu adds that yard management systems also allow users to collaborate across organizations in an effort to improve inventory management. For example, he says, when a food manufacturer ships to a grocer's DC, a typical move includes substantial idle time. "If a trailer is idling for 12 to 14 hours at the source and the same at the destination, that's a day's worth of inventory we could take out," he argues."