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8 Actionable Insights from Stockpile Report Data
Insights from Monthly Drone Measurements Face it, your team at most is measuring your inventory by drone monthly. The insights from drone flights are only as good as the time from the last flight. The value for your operations team is low once the data is a few days...
Using Drones for Stockpile Inventory & Audits
Stockpile inventory is a common use case for drones and it can simplify the audit process immensely. Drones have been able to solve a problem that many organizations face; a lack of resources. When year-end arrives, companies scramble to complete their annual...
How To Save Time On Your Annual Inventory
Solution Spotlight: SR Measure for Spot-Checking Deliveries
When a truck arrives with your material order, how do you verify you're getting what you paid for? Most operations face a frustrating choice: eyeball the pile and hope for the best, or break out the walking wheel for a rough estimate. Neither option gives you the...
Stockpile Measurement with a Drone
There is no doubt that using a drone for measuring stockpiles is a great solution for many companies with inventory spread across large worksites. Drones allow you to measure all of your stockpiles in just a few minutes. Whether you fly yourself or have Stockpile...
Stockpile Measurement Methods That Work
Measurements shouldn’t require a significant amount of time, energy, or money and it should be simple to complete. We believe measuring stockpiles should be easy. With this in mind, we developed stockpile measurement solutions tailored for building material companies....
The Best Way to Estimate a Stockpile Volume
Why estimate the volume of a stockpile when you could gather precise and reliable measurements in a matter of minutes? The best way to estimate the volume of a stockpile is to take an actual measurement with your iPhone or a drone. You can do it yourself or we can do...
How to Calculate Stockpile Volumes
Knowing how much inventory you have on hand at any given time is important for many reasons including aligning sales and operations, improving profitability, and becoming more efficient. Stockpile Reports offers various ways that you can calculate stockpile volumes in...
Using Stockpile Reports for Stockpile Volume Measurement
Building material companies are using Stockpile Reports to measure their stockpile volumes worldwide. This move toward the digitization of previously manual processes is in an effort to increase consistency and frequency of measurements and to improve the precision...
3 Reasons DOTs Should Measure Stockpile Inventory with SR Measure on an iPhone
Statewide Departments of Transportation face unique challenges when measuring their stockpiles. Unlike aggregates or ready mix producers who maintain stockpiles in just a few locations, DOTs manage hundreds of stockpiles spread across thousands of miles of highway....
Welcoming Brooke Steele, Our Newest Sr. Research Engineer
Brooke Steele joins Stockpile Reports as the Senior Research Engineer with the goal of continuing to grow and improve the Stockpile Reports platform for inventory measurement and management.
The Hidden Cost of Too Much Inventory
Inventory is viewed as an asset with an assigned value, but too much inventory can hinder profit margins, reduce available cash flow, and end up costing you. As a bulk material (BM) company, it’s important to have the right amount of inventory on hand to meet the...