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Our Clients

Our Yard Smart product has benefits for virtually any logistics-intensive organization. But over the years, we’ve developed particular expertise in serving clients in five key industries.

Grocery

C&S Wholesale Grocers – The second-largest grocery wholesaler in the U.S.

H-E-B – San Antonio based H-E-B is the largest grocery chain in Texas with over 300 stores in Texas and Mexico. [more]

Safeway – Safeway Inc. is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America. The company operates 1,770 stores in the Western, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in Western Canada.

Sainsbury’s – Sainsbury’s is one of the largest and most established grocers in the U.K., operating more than 450 supermarkets and 301 convenience stores.

Retail

Canadian Tire – One of Canada’s retail pioneers, Canadian Tire is also one of Canada’s largest retailers with more than 450 locations and 48,000 employees. [more]

The Gap – Gap Inc. is one of the world’s largest specialty retailers, with more than 3,000 stores and revenues of $16 billion in 2005. They operate four of the most recognized apparel brands in the world: Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Forth & Towne.

Manufacturing

Ford– The Ford Motor company invented the concept of mass production. Constant attention to supply-chain optimization has kept them among the world’s top automobile manufacturers for more than 100 years. [more]

Kraft – Kraft Foods is the world’s second-largest food and beverage company with net revenues in 2005 of more than $34 billion and more than 100 years of continuous growth and success.

Walkers – Walkers is Britain’s favorite crisp and the biggest crisp manufacturer in the U.K., employing over 4,000 people in 15 locations.

Parcel Post

Royal Mail – The Royal Mail Group PLC is the national postal service of the U.K. The group operates more than 14,000 post offices and handles 84 million items every day. [more]

Logistics and transportation

Americold Logistics – Headquartered in Atlanta, Americold is the leading third-party provider of supply-chain solutions in the consumer packaged goods industry, managing over 4 billion pounds of freight per year.

Challenger – Founded in 1975 Challenger is a long time innovator in the TL-LTL trucking market. Challenger was also one of the first companies to receive the authority to ship across North America including Mexico.

Groupe Robert – One of Quebec’s largest privately owned trucking companies.

Yard Smart Gives H-E-B a Boost

In 2001, H-E-B Grocery of San Antonio, Texas, implemented a YMS from C3 Solutions to facilitate the movement of trailers at its 18 DCs. The new system is currently in use at the company’s two largest facilities, in San Antonio (500 dock doors) and Houston (300 dock doors).

"H-E-B’s investment in YMS has paid off," says Justen Noakes, supply chain, warehousing, and transportation technology leader. "We’ve definitely reaped efficiency and productivity gains."

Logistics Management
Sept 1, 2005

Safeway

Sainsbury’s

Canadian Tire

Royal Mail

Ford