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Stockpile Reports Breaks Through Laser Tech Limitations
Laser-based scanning technology has long been the gold standard for stockpiles measurement. Not only is it lightning-quick, but it’s also super accurate. LiDAR (light detection and ranging) works analogously to radar or radio wave technology, only it operates out of a...
7 Things You Can Do Today To Improve Your Stockpile Measurement Methods
The accuracy of your stockpile inventory measurements directly impacts your company’s bottom line. When there are many errors, you can expect significant write-offs at the end of the year. If there are fewer errors, you can keep the write-offs to a bare minimum and...
Road Salt Can Hurt as Much as Help – And How to Make it Better
Road salt is critical. Without it, routine life would grind to a halt come winter. Deicing the streets makes it safe for vehicles to drive through the after-effects of a snowstorm or blizzard. The country goes through an estimated 20 million tons of road salt each...
4 Ways to Simplify Your Audit Process
Audit season is just around the corner, which can inspire dread and apprehension even in the well-prepared. We find that it helps to see auditing as critical and even beneficial. A smooth audit process can help you identify growing problems and solve them out before...
Road Salt: Are You Losing More Than You Should?
Every winter, we dump and apply 15 million tons of salt to our streets. It melts the snow and provides better traction for vehicles, preventing accidents, and keeping the traffic flowing as usual. 15 million tons is a staggering amount of salt to move, even spread out...
Calculate the Volume & Tonnage of Salt Stockpiles
If you have salt stockpiles that you would like to measure the volume and tonnage of, it’s no problem with Stockpile Reports. We have three simple solutions available for you: Fixed cameras for continuous monitoring and auto-replenishment Indoor drone measurements for...
Stockpile Reports Featured on The Future of Supply Chain Podcast
In case you missed it, David Boardman of Stockpile Reports was featured on The Future of Supply Chain podcast. Hosted by Santosh Sankar of Dynamo Ventures, David and Santosh cover: Using advanced image processing to help bulk materials companies eliminate that...
10 Ways to Scale Your Business for More Profit
Every business needs to grow to succeed, but this growth needs to have purpose and direction. Uncontrolled and unstructured growth is like building a table with spindly legs – a bad investment and a disaster in the making. That’s why scaling is so important. Scaling...
5 Ways to Drastically Reduce Inventory Write-Offs
Write-offs are a painful result of many factors, but some of them are within your control. Stockpile Reports helps companies just like yours eliminate write-offs by making changes and following some best practices: 1. Double-check your data You have data about your...
6 Reasons Why Stockpile Inventory Write-Offs Happen
Write-offs are a constant thorn in the side for companies big and small. We don’t have exact figures for industries like manufacturing and construction, but we estimate it to be a fearsome hit to the bottom line. It’s not uncommon for CEOs and CFOs in large companies...
How Digitalizing Boosts Sustainability for Bulk Materials Businesses
Sustainability has become paramount in recent years. Experts estimate that we collectively use 40% more resources than we can replace every year. A scenario where we run out of key natural resources is less a distant possibility and more a foregone conclusion at this...
Haul-Back Waste Is Costing You
After concrete is poured at a construction site, the chutes of ready mix concrete trucks and hoppers of concrete pump trucks must be washed out to remove the remaining concrete before it hardens. It’s important that companies properly dispose of their washout in the...