SolutionsExecutionTransportation & Yard Operations

Dock Assignment

Trucks are arriving faster than doors are freeing up.

The decision

Three trucks are inbound within the hour, two doors are open, labor is thin, and one load is temperature-sensitive. Which truck gets which door, and which waits?

Why it's hard today

Assign wrong and you idle a reefer, bottleneck the dock, or strand labor. The right assignment depends on load type, door capability, labor, and downstream priority — all changing minute to minute.

Why your systems don't help

Your yard/WMS shows door status; it doesn't sequence arrivals against labor, load sensitivity, and downstream need. It shows availability, not an assignment.

What AgentForgeOS does

It assembles the picture you can't see, and makes the call under your rules.

Send the reefer to the capable door, the urgent-pick load to the second, and hold the third until labor frees — under your dock policy.

Operational context assembled
  • Inbound ETAs and load types
  • Door capability and status
  • Labor availability
  • Temperature / handling needs
  • Downstream pick priority
Governed by your policy
  • Cold-chain protection
  • Labor constraints
  • Door-capability rules
  • Downstream-priority weighting
decision-workspace · dock · facility 7

⚠ 3 inbound, 2 doors — facility 7, one reefer

Evidence assembled

  • Reefer load can't wait long
  • Door 3 has reefer capability, free now
  • Labor covers two unloads, not three
  • One load feeds an urgent pick

Recommendation · reefer → door 3, urgent-pick → door 5, third holds

Policy: cold-chain protected · labor within limit · awaiting dock lead

Decision Object #F7-22Evidence ×4Policy ✓AssignAdjust

What improves

  • No spoiled cold-chain loads
  • Higher dock throughput
  • Labor used where it counts
The knowledge it keeps

Each assignment and how the dock actually flowed is kept, so the model learns this facility's real door and labor rhythms.

Under the hood

Underneath, this is the same operating model the rest of the platform runs: verified context is assembled, options are weighed and adversarially challenged, the decision is governed by your policy, and the outcome is learned. The decision changes from one of these to the next. The architecture does not.

See how it works

This is exactly how your team works today.

Only now the decision is assembled, governed, and remembered — instead of made from memory and lost.