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 anticipates approximately 120 users will be actively measuring their materials with Stockpile Reports in 2019.
History of Our Relationship
In 2015, the Texas Department of Transportation (TX DOT) chose Stockpile Reports. Armed with the tools they needed to improve their inventory measurement processes, TxDOT experienced tremendous gains and saw significant improvements in their ability to manage their inventory over time. We were thrilled that they had shared their successes with other DOTs, including the ITD.
Darran Anderson, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer of TX DOT stated that the Stockpile Reports application calculates stockpile volume as accurately as their GPS survey method and provides the following financial benefits:
- Requires no additional equipment investment
- Halves the personnel required per stockpile measurement
- Saves $2.1M per year in measurement costs
- Saves 20 FTEs per year in measurement time
- Improves employee cubic yard estimates 27%
- Adjusts existing cubic yard inventory quantity down 40%
After discussions and a successful trial of the Stockpile Reports software on a few of their six districts, ITD chose to roll out Stockpile Reports to the rest of the districts. Their primary focuses are:
- Ensuring deliveries are in alignment with orders;
- Ensuring materials are available and properly allocated to designated projects;
- Ensuring materials, such as salt, are available during weather events;
- Improving data consistency through precise and reliable inventory counts;
- Providing enhanced transparency from the ground up;
- Becoming more efficient by digitizing previously manual processes; and
- Ultimately, saving taxpayers dollars by leveraging new efficiencies.
How Much Time Will They Save?
Before Stockpile Reports, a manual inventory count across all the ITD districts could take months and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. There are so many moving parts and data flowing between so many people, it’s inevitable that errors and discrepancies happen. Because a statewide inventory count was such a significant time commitment, it was only performed on an annual basis. Seeing the potential for improved processes, more efficiency, and better data, ITD chose Stockpile Reports.