Manhattan Active Yard Management vs Yardman

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.

Yardman is yard management system software for businesses, warehouses and distribution centers. Teams can configure a yard topology and use planning tools to organize yard activity. The product includes driver and truck management, delivery dock check-ins, gate check-in, trailer inventory and dock-door management. Smart barcodes and QR codes are intended to speed processes, while a live trailer yard view helps teams manage bottlenecks and security concerns. Yardman offers a mobile application, with a download page referencing Google Play and an installation file for newer Huawei phones. Its RESTful API exchanges JSON over HTTP and uses JWT token authentication; the service also offers a custom API, webhooks and a documented Zapier integration. Optional two-factor authentication uses an authenticator app and backup codes. Yardman says data is backed up daily in multiple locations, with backups encrypted using GPG, and that HTTPS encrypts data in transit. Support is available through a ticket system. Plans start at €29.00 per month, and a 30-day trial is available. There is no free plan.