C3 Yard vs Manhattan Active Yard Management

C3 Yard is a SaaS yard management system for coordinating tractors, trailers, and shunters moving through a distribution center. C3 describes it for retail, parcel, and large-yard operations, with particular impact at sites with four or more shunters and 100 or more trailers. Yard View shows the yard’s current state, including trailer locations and whether they are loaded or unloaded. Configured rules and priority levels guide shunter task assignments, with instructions delivered through a mobile application. The system also lists gate check-in, trailer inventory, yard maps, and dock-door management. It is accessed through a web browser or C3 Hub mobile application. Its Progressive Web Application provides yard, gate, and warehouse functionality on mobile devices, and C3 says it is compatible with any smartphone. C3 Yard can be configured around processes, rules, sites, roles, and permissions, including user access to one or more sites. It connects with TMS, WMS, and RTV systems through APIs, and supports web services, XML, and flat-file transfers over SFTP. Pricing is on request, based on yard size, features, customization, and integrations. C3 says guaranteed uptime ranges from 99.0% to 99.9%, depending on the selected Service Program package.

Manhattan Active Yard Management coordinates yard, dock, warehouse, and transportation execution for warehouse and distribution-center operations. Its graphical view brings together dock doors, yard positions, trailer locations, expected arrivals, and trailer contents. The system prioritizes trailers for dock doors using putaway travel, warehouse shortages, and cross-dock or flow-through demand. Door and trailer assignments synchronize with receiving, putaway, staging, and loading. Pre-receipt allocation supports inbound cross-dock and flow-through processing, with configurable workflows for live and drop loads. The product is designed to reduce dwell time and work with Manhattan Warehouse Management and Transportation Management. It runs on the cloud-native, API-first ActivePlatform, which supports REST APIs, synchronous HTTP, and asynchronous messaging. Manhattan says Active solutions receive feature updates every 90 days and are hosted on Google Cloud as a multi-tenant subscription service. Its stated security program includes continuous monitoring and response, encryption, incident response, and third-party penetration testing. Pricing is on request; the listed plan has no public price, with differing terms for Warehouse Management and Transportation Management users.