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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...
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....
Why Companies Needs to Part 107 Certify Their Drone Pilots
The first step of creating a drone program at any company is ensuring each pilot has the proper certifications. Clients often ask us if getting certified is necessary since their locations are located far away from airports and urban centers. It is the law to be...
James Lobbett Joins Stockpile Reports. What’s In It For You? Everything.
From Boardroom to The Boots On The Ground, New Stockpile Reports Team Member, James, Wants to Change The Way You Measure Your Inventory. The Stockpile Reports team continues to grow with the addition of James Lobbett, our newest Customer Solutions Manager. We welcome...
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...
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.
Idaho Transportation Department Chooses Stockpile Reports
Stockpile Reports is proud to announce the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) has selected Stockpile Reports for the improved management of their materials using our inventory tracking software and iPhone app. ITD is starting with a 600 stockpile subscription and...
Airspace Issues? No Problem with Stockpile Reports
At Stockpile Reports, we believe measuring inventory should be easy for any organization, big or small. A challenge for many of our clients who fly their own drones is navigating the FAA's airspace regulations. In this article, we guide you through the process of...
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...
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...
Why The Ready Mix Concrete Industry Must Modernize for the Future
At Stockpile Reports, we are deeply invested in providing precise, fast, and reliable inventory solutions to the bulk materials industry.We recently announced our newest solution, Stockpile Reports for Logistics, a near real-time auto-replenishment inventory solution....
Stockpile Reports is Easy, But Is It Accurate?
Some have a hard time believing that walking around a pile with an iPhone or flying a drone capturing pictures could possibly result in reliable information about the volume of a pile without touching it. Stockpile Reports ACCURATELY calculates volume. What you really...