It starts with a simple question: How long does it take to turn a board into money?
In pallet yards across the country, trailers are arriving, pallets are moving, and orders are being filled, but no one has a clear answer to that core operational question. That gap led to Board2Bank, a real-time metric inspired by the financial world’s Cash Conversion Cycle (Cash2Cash).
Just like Cash2Cash tracks how fast a business turns investments into cash, from buying inventory to collecting payments, Board2Bank applies that same logic to pallet operations. It connects what’s happening on the ground to the money that follows.
What It Measures in Real Time
Every yard runs a cycle. Trailers arrive and are unloaded. Pallets are sorted, repaired, or dismantled. Finished pallets are moved to inventory, sold, and eventually paid for. Each part of that process carries time, labor and cost.
Board2Bank tracks that full cycle in real time. It is a live operational speedometer that tells you how fast your business is turning materials into cash.
We break it up into four distinct steps:
- Board Acquisition Time (BAT): Time spent collecting and unloading pallets
- Processing Time (PT): Time spent sorting, repairing, dismantling pallets, or trimming boards
- Inventory Holding Time (IHT): Time pallets sit waiting for sale
- Sales and Collection Time (SCT): Time from sale to payment received
Board2Bank Cycle = BAT + PT + IHT + SCT
The result is a single, actionable number showing how fast your yard converts incoming pallets into money.
What Operators Are Seeing
Once yards start tracking Board2Bank in real time, they begin to see things differently.
One operator thought the issue was repair speed. What they found was that trailers were left untouched for over a day. Fixing that changed the flow of the yard.
Another processed pallets quickly but had growing stacks in inventory. Repaired pallets were sitting without confirmed orders. Aligning repair work with sales activity freed up space and cash.
A third struggled with cash flow despite strong volume. The problem was stretched payment timelines. By tracking collections, they changed terms and improved liquidity.
These results did not come from new systems. They came from visibility. When teams can see the cycle in motion, they act faster and make smarter decisions.
Why It Matters Now
Board2Bank turns the entire yard into a live signal for operations. When the number rises, it points to a bottleneck. When the metric gets shorter, it shows progress. Managers can act early. Operators know where to focus.
This works whether you are manual or automated. Whether you run one yard or a dozen. Whether you move 100 or 10,000 pallets per day. The metric links to your operation and reflects current performance. Board2Bank is not about reporting; it is about control.
What Comes Next
Board2Bank is not a report you run at the end of the week. It is a live pulse of your operation. It tells you, moment by moment, where value is moving and where it is getting stuck. It gives every team, from the dock to the office, a shared view of performance. If you want to run faster, respond quicker, and stay aligned from start to finish, Board2Bank is the number to watch.
Editor’s Note: Elhay Farkash is the CEO of Zira, an AI-vision telematics company that specializes in working with pallet and wood products companies among other sectors. For more information, visit www.joinzira.com or call (650) 701-7026.
