Yard Management System (YMS)

A system is designed to facilitate and organize the coming, going, and staging of trucks and trucks with trailers in the parking 'yard' that serves a warehouse, distribution, or manufacturing facility.

Yield

The ratio of usable output from a process to its input.

Yokoten

A term Toyota adopted to capture the idea of horizontal transfer of information and knowledge across an organization, Yokoten is a two-way street requiring proactive effort from both those acquiring and developing the knowledge, and those who could benefit from a greater understanding of the requirements for success.