Date & Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 2:00pm ET
Your yard is the part of the operation nobody can see.
Trailers come off the gate and disappear into the lot. Somebody walks out with a clipboard to count them, and by the time they're back the count is already wrong.
A yard management system fixes that. But most teams who've evaluated one walked away thinking it would just move the work around: more clicks, more updates, more for the yard crew to remember.
Fair concern, and it's the one this session is built around. You'll see what Opendock's YMS does today, the yard tasks and inventory checks that are already live, and how automation is taking the manual steps out of it.
What we'll cover:
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YMS 101. What yard management does, and how it connects to the dock scheduling you already use.
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Yard tasks and inventory checks. What's live now, including the first yard tasks we've shipped, and what your team sees on the ground.
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The path to the automated yard. What we're building to take the manual actions out, and what to expect over the next few months.
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Where AI fits. How automation reshapes the way you staff, plan, and run the lot.
The yard is the last part of the operation still running on memory and a walk around the lot. It doesn't have to. Come see what's live today, what's coming, and what it actually takes to run a yard that keeps its own count. Bring your questions, we'll leave time at the end.
