Every move in your yard either drives efficiency, or costs you. Ensure every yard decision is optimized for what’s going on now & what comes next.
Yard Intelligence Suite (YIS), part of Kaleris Advanced Optimization (AO), is an AI-augmented yard optimization solution that helps terminals make smarter container placement and movement decisions based on both current yard conditions and future operational impact.
YIS puts yard planners in conversation with their yards, helping terminals make better decisions earlier—keeping the yard balanced, efficient, and predictable as conditions change.
The solution also reimagines how yard plans are created and managed. Instead of manually configuring dozens of operational settings, planners can interact with YIS in their preferred language to define priorities, goals, and yard strategies more intuitively.
By combining conversational AI with outcome-based optimization, YIS simplifies complex planning workflows while keeping operators firmly in control. The result is faster planning, reduced manual effort, and a more adaptive approach to managing yard operations in real time.
Predictive Insights
Anticipate yard demand before it happens. Predict incoming volume, utilization, and congestion to plan ahead with confidence. Stay in control by making proactive decisions instead of reacting to disruptions.
Container Placement Optimization
Bad placement drives extra moves, delays, and cost across the yard. Make smarter decisions from the first move with full-yard visibility at your fingertips. Catch stacking gaps and congestion risks before they impact performance.
Expand Throughput
More throughput lives in your existing footprint. All it needs is rearranging. Move more containers without the costly hurdle of expanding your yard by eliminating dead zones, identifying underused blocks, and making up for tight budgets in efficiency and yard capacity.
Empower teams with early insight to place containers right the first time, reducing rehandles and keeping the yard running smoothly with AI-driven support.
Lower cost per move by reducing rehandles and unnecessary equipment travel.
Align operations with strategic KPIs by reducing rehandles, increasing yard capacity, and improving throughput through optimized resource allocation.
Leverage predictive data and AI-driven insights to enhance operator control, augmenting your workforce’s productivity instead of replacing it.
Ensure additional capacity from existing yard space without physical expansion.
Improve yard flow by placing containers where they can be retrieved with minimal effort, reducing waste and keeping operations smooth.
Reduce operational pressure on labor and resources with smarter planning.
As yard variability increases, manual planning and static rules begin to fall short, leading to congestion, excess moves, and operational inefficiencies. YIS addresses this by enabling smarter container placement, reducing rehandles, and improving equipment productivity, setting the foundation for more efficient yard operations.
Yard congestion and capacity imbalances are often only detected once they begin affecting flow, leaving limited time to respond and causing cascading delays, inefficiencies, and reduced terminal performance.
Poor placement decisions early in the process lead to unnecessary rehandles, increased equipment movement, and reduced yard fluidity, especially when conditions change faster than manual planning can keep up with.
Yard planning often depends on static rules and manual adjustments that cannot keep pace with real-time operational changes, resulting in delayed responses, reduced execution accuracy, and misalignment between planned and actual yard conditions.
Identify emerging yard congestion and imbalances hours in advance with predictive scenario modeling. Evaluate alternative actions and surface pre-emptive move recommendations before bottlenecks form. Planners retain full transparency into decision logic, ensuring every recommendation is explainable, trusted, and aligned with operational intent.
Apply intelligent stacking and placement logic that accounts for real-time yard conditions and predicted delivery schedules. Guide container positioning to reduce future rehandles, eliminate inefficiencies, and maintain smooth yard flow under fluctuating demand.
Move beyond fixed rules and manual adjustments with dynamic, real-time yard visibility and optimization. Continuously adapt to changing conditions to improve responsiveness, reduce operational friction, and drive consistent throughput performance.
Simplify complex yard decisions with AI by telling your yard what to achieve. AI handles the rest, optimizing performance to match.
Define throughput, dwell time, and service goals, then set the rules that guide daily yard execution.
Surface delays, inefficiencies, and the impact of operational changes with real-time analysis and AI insights.
Use AI to forecast delays, adjust workflows, and improve yard performance as conditions change.
Yard planners define goals, priorities, and constraints. YIS evaluates multiple scenarios, anticipates potential disruptions, and recommends optimal actions, while keeping operators and planners fully in control of every decision.
Container placement is guided by real-time yard conditions and predicted movement, ensuring decisions account for future flow—not just immediate availability. This minimizes secondary moves, reduces equipment strain, and improves overall yard efficiency by making each move more intentional and operationally aligned.
Apply intelligent stacking algorithms that use real-time yard conditions and predicted delivery schedules to guide optimal container placement from the start. This reduces inefficient stacking decisions that lead to rehandles and congestion, while preserving yard fluidity. Unlike static planning approaches, it continuously adapts to current and future operational demand.
The yard is where terminal performance is won or lost. It connects vessels, equipment, and landside operations, making every operational decision critical.
