Fast, Precise, Reliable Inventory for Your Asphalt Plant
Contact UsOperating an asphalt plant requires a high level of coordination and constant monitoring to achieve maximum efficiency and profit.
A critical variable of your plant’s efficiency is ensuring your plant has the optimal amount of aggregates on hand to produce specific batches for each job. Ordering the optimal amount of aggregates is a difficult task which leads plant operators to ordering extra inventory to ensure material is always on hand.
However, carrying extra aggregates for a rainy day scenario leads to inefficiencies at your plant. Money spent on the extra aggregates could have been spent on capital investments. We know this is a difficult problem to solve without access to constant, precise measurements of your aggregates inventory.
This is why Stockpile Reports has built a measurement and logistics tracking service tailored exactly for the unique challenges of managing aggregates inventory at an asphalt plant. For the first time, your plant will have the inventory data it needs to run at maximum efficiency.
Industry Stats
18 Billion Dollars
is spent on asphalt for the paving of U.S. roads
65 Percent
of the asphalt pavement market is publicly funded highway projects
99 Percent
of asphalt pavement removed from projects gets reused in future projects
Always Have Resources When You Need It, Automatically
Measuring aggregates reserves currently requires employees to physically inspect and make estimates, manually entering the inventory levels. This is a very slow, expensive and error prone process. Automated sensing systems have been too expensive to deploy across the entire company. Stockpile Reports for Logistics adds near real-time continuous inventory levels to existing logistics software solutions to give your company a giant boost to the return on investment for their enterprise logistics plans. Low cost fixed camera systems can be mounted in warehouses and storage yards to automatically calculate inventory levels, replacing the need for manual entry by humans. These fixed camera measurements can be scheduled to run at given times throughout the day, set to run on a recurring frequency interval, or automatically triggered after motion occurs. The Stockpile Reports Logistics system sends alerts and notifications, triggering re-orders and providing inventory levels data needed to better organize delivery.
Eliminate Injury Risk
Asphalt companies measure inventory on a daily basis to ensure they have enough material on hand for various mix batches. However, manual inventory counts pose a significant risk to employees health and safety, exposing the company to the risk of a workplace injury. Just one workplace injury can set back a company day or week of production and hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue. You can automate the inventory measurement process with Stockpile Reports by using fixed-cameras, iPhones, and drones. Employees never have to walk on piles again or spend extra time around heavy equipment which eliminates the risk of injuries and lawsuits.
Reduce Human Error
Nothing is more painful than discovering you have a sizeable inventory adjustment at the end of the quarter due to simple data entry mistakes. Manual data entry is riddled with errors and inconsistencies. Your inventory measurement and tracking process is entirely automated with Stockpile Reports, eliminating human error and human intervention. You will never have write-off again due to a simple data entry error.
Asphalt Industry Customers
"Century Asphalt Materials started using Stockpile Reports in late 2016. Prior to this, we were dependent upon outside firms for quarterly measurements. Our company expanded in 2008 into other markets west of the Houston area. As you know, using outside firms can be costly. In late 2016, we began performing monthly flights on ALL of our yards to account for monthly reporting. Through these transitions with 20 locations flown monthly, we have had great success in balancing our inventories."
Wade Cooke, Technical Advisor
Gallagher Asphalt uses Stockpile Reports to perform regular inventory measurements. Choosing to partner with Stockpile Reports has enabled them to save time, improve their efficiency, become more profitable. Access to more frequent inventory measurements ensures they can confidently fulfill work orders.
Full List
Barrett Industries
Century Asphalt Materials
Everett Dykes Grassing
Galena Road and Gravel
Gallagher Asphalt
H.O. Weaver and Sons
Harding Group
JH Strain and Sons
P & S Paving