Business outcome
The site engine. Eliminate yard chaos with real-time trailer tracking and dock scheduling integrated with your TMS.
Yard & Dock Management
IronKernel Platform
YMS module
YMS is a Yard Management System designed for facility yard operations.
Capability pillars
- Sites & Zones
- Gate Operations
- Dock Scheduling
- Parking Management
Workflow highlights
- Gate Operations workflow
- Dock Scheduling workflow
- Sites & Zones workflow
Feature pages
Each deep product includes feature pages with problem/capability flow and evidence references.
Open full feature index
Gate Operations
Check-In Wizard: Guided flow: scan trailer → auto-lookup appointment by carrier SCAC + trailer number → verify seal → auto-suggest nearest empty parking slot...
Open featureDock Scheduling
Appointment Calendar: Visual Gantt timeline of dock door availability (rows = doors, columns = 30-min slots) TMS Trip ETA Display: Pull upcoming trip ETAs...
Open featureSites & Zones
Site Management: Multi-site support with geofence boundaries, timezone, operating hours Geofence boundaries will use the platform backend/libs/geofence/ engine (point-in-polygon, ray-casting).
Open featureParking Management
Track every parking slot and trailer location in the yard.
Open featureYard Tasks
Work queue for yard jockeys - move, spot, pull, inspect, fuel trailers.
Open featureAppointments
Appointment Types: Inbound (receive), Outbound (ship), Live Load, Drop & Hook TMS Integration: Link appointments to TMS load IDs for end-to-end visibility Carrier Communication:...
Open featureYard Assets
Track all assets currently in the yard - trailers, containers, mules.
Open featureContainer Interchange
Manage the "drop loaded / pick up empty" container workflow, the most common intermodal yard operation.
Open featureAnalytics
Yard Utilization %: Current occupancy / total capacity Dock Turn Time: Average time trailer spends at dock door Dock Performance by Door: Per-door analytics...
Open featureJourney Contracts (Normative)
The following contracts define mandatory behavior when dependencies are unavailable or stale.
Open featureDegraded-Mode Validation Scenarios
Built degradation validation harness and scenario coverage for offline mode and degraded operational fallbacks.
Open featurePilot Mobile Integration
YMS provides the backend APIs; Pilot app provides the mobile UI for yard jockeys who spend their entire shift in yard mules.
Open featureDevice Gateway
Hardware devices (OCR cameras, RFID readers, truck scales, reefer units, sensors, kiosks, gate arms) register through a unified API with auto-generated API keys.
Open featureIndustry Standards & Codification
YMS uses industry standards for container identification, trailer classification, and food safety compliance.
Open featureSolution relevance map
These solution routes consume this product to validate cross-flow continuity and buyer outcomes (1).
Yard throughput
Outcome: Site execution is coordinated through shared gate, dock, and appointment workflows.
Gate, dock, and appointment behavior stays coordinated when yard workflows are linked to dispatch context.
Continuity routes
Power-pair routes compress solution continuity into evaluation runbooks for this product.
Detention Detection
Formula: YMS -> TMS
Open continuity routeDock-to-Load Sync
Formula: TMS <-> YMS
Open continuity routeHealthy Yards
Formula: CMMS + YMS
Open continuity routeProof model
Product-level proof
YMS gate operation execution is implemented with dedicated gate rule modules and geofence-ready integrations.
verified
docs/products/yms/product.md · Module Catalog > Gate Operations
Code: backend/services/yms/internal/modules/gates
Contract: proto/yms/gates/v1
YMS gate execution is implemented in dedicated gate modules.
verified
docs/products/yms/product.md · Module Catalog > Gate Operations
Code: backend/services/yms/internal/modules/gates
Contract: proto/yms/gates/v1
YMS dock scheduling is implemented in appointment and dock modules.
verified
docs/products/yms/product.md · Module Catalog > Dock Scheduling
Code: backend/services/yms/internal/modules/docks
Contract: proto/yms/docks/v1
YMS dock and scheduling orchestration includes site capacity and reservation workflows.
verified
docs/products/yms/product.md · Module Catalog > Appointments
Code: backend/services/yms/internal/modules/appointments
Contract: proto/yms/appointments/v1
YMS parking and yard utilization states are implemented in dedicated parking modules.
verified
docs/products/yms/product.md · Module Catalog > Parking Management
Code: backend/services/yms/internal/modules/parking
Contract: proto/yms/parking/v1
YMS site and task context is implemented through site layout and yard task modules.
verified
docs/products/yms/product.md · Module Catalog > Sites & Zones
Code: backend/services/yms/internal/modules/sitelayout
Contract: proto/yms/sites/v1
YMS yard task execution and completion states are implemented in task modules.
verified
docs/products/yms/product.md · Module Catalog > Yard Tasks
Code: backend/services/yms/internal/modules/tasks
Contract: proto/yms/tasks/v1
YMS storage and interchange state transitions are implemented in dedicated modules.
verified
docs/products/yms/product.md · Module Catalog > Yard Assets
Code: backend/services/yms/internal/modules/storage
Contract: proto/yms/assets/v1
Continue product evaluation
Move into feature detail pages, then follow cross-product pathways to validate execution continuity.