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Estimating instead of measuring
Stock is rarely measured properly. Usually it's a walk round the yard, a judgement call based on experience, or the weighbridge, and the weighbridge only knows what came in and went out, not what is actually there. The result is a permanent uncertainty in your stock figures that can easily reach 15%. Invisible, until it isn't.
Uncertainty on the balance sheet
Stock is one of your biggest assets. If the value is 15% out, a substantial sum is sitting on the books unverified, and your accountant will ask about it.
Bad calls in the yard
Half-empty loads, turning down an order for material that is actually in the yard, or committing to stock you don't have. A few wrong loads run into thousands.
Disputes and nasty surprises
Customers challenge quantities when there is no objective measurement. At year-end the records don't match the yard, and the missing stock gets written off, straight out of your profit.
Sound familiar? One reliable survey takes that uncertainty off the table, and frees up the money tied up in it.
Estimating isn't free
A 15% swing sounds abstract until you run it against your own stock. Move the slider to your situation and see how much uncertainty you take off the table.
Slide to the estimated value of the material on your site.
This isn't cash in your account. It's the stock value you currently can't vouch for: working capital and risk you manage with AiroMap instead of estimating.
Then there is year-end. If the records don't match what is actually on site, over or under, the difference has to be corrected. That correction hits your profit rather than your turnover, which is why it usually stings more than the figure itself.
Work out your ROI in a free demoOne figure everyone trusts
Measuring by hand only ever captures part of the stockpile. AiroMap captures the whole thing in millions of 3D points, with a margin of error of 1 to 3%. What you get back is one properly evidenced report, ready to share with your finance team, your customers and your planners.
Powered by the AiroMap platformWhat you get
Complete 3D model
Every shape, height and hollow across the whole batch, captured. Sand, gravel, crushed rubble, asphalt and mixed material.
Report generated for you
As soon as the flight data lands, volumes are calculated and your survey report is put together automatically.
Everything in the cloud
Surveys and reports are stored securely online and open straight in your browser. Nothing to install.
Easy to share
Export to PDF or Excel, or share the full 3D model with a single link. Everyone works from the same numbers.
What accurate measurement gives you
Once you are working from real figures instead of estimates, the guesswork comes out of your decisions. That pays off in more than one place.
Better planning, lower costs
Plan against what is actually there. Load lorries and vessels properly, with fewer movements and fewer orders you can't fulfil.
No surprises on the balance sheet
A stock value you can rely on prevents large write-downs, unexpected swings at month-end and gaps at year-end.
Control of your working capital
Stock is working capital. Know exactly what is on site and you know how much capital is tied up in it, and can act on that.
Evidence that stands up in an audit
Independent, repeatable data your accountant and your client can both build on.
Your surveys, under your control
AiroMap makes a highly accurate stock survey something you do yourself, when it suits you, as often as you like. No waiting, no bookings, no specialist. That changes not just how you measure, but how often you actually know what you have.
Results the same morning
No waiting days for a report. Depending on how many stockpiles you have, the first results are ready around 30 minutes after the flight.
Fully automated
The drone plans and flies the survey entirely on its own. Anyone on your team can operate it, with no experience needed.
Survey whenever you want
Nobody else's calendar to work around. You survey on demand, in your own time: today, next week or every month.
Still pays off when you survey often
One platform, one fixed subscription, unlimited users. The more often you survey, the less each survey costs you.
The same method every time
Every survey follows exactly the same validated process. Figures that compare month on month and that your accountant accepts without argument.
Works for one project stockpile too
A temporary stockpile on a construction site or dozens of permanent ones: you survey where and when you want. One location or many, it works the same way.
One platform, one fixed subscription, unlimited users. Stock surveying becomes part of your working week rather than a job you commission.
Everything in one package, up and running in half a day
One package gives you everything you need: drone, software, training and all the paperwork around it, so getting started is straightforward. The drone flies entirely on its own. With our training and a platform this simple, anyone on your team is surveying independently within half a day, with no survey background and no drone experience.
And the surveying itself is fully automated, in three steps:
AVG surveys its entire stock every quarter
AVG, one of the largest recycling and raw materials businesses in the region, chose AiroMap so it could survey all its sites accurately, in house.
GermanyAVG runs AiroMap across all five of its sites every quarter. The drone flies a pre-set route on its own and maps each yard accurately. That gives AVG a current, dependable picture of its stock instead of an estimate by eye.
- A survey of all six sites every quarter, for current and comparable figures
- Picks up stock discrepancies that stay invisible to the naked eye
- A dependable basis for stock valuation and for monthly deliveries
“A real step towards stock management we can rely on.”
AiroMap's survey process has been independently reviewed and validated as a basis for stock valuation in the financial statements. Dated, documented and repeatable.
See what is really on your site
The awkward thing about stock discrepancies is that you can't see them: as long as you don't measure, they quietly grow. Book a free demo and find out how big the gap on your site really is. We come to you, fly your yard and hand over a sample report with your actual volumes.
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Further reading
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'We estimate it' is no longer an answer
What is on your yard was an internal number for a long time. Increasingly you have to be able to prove it, and that is not only coming from your accountant.
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How often should you survey your stock?
Most companies survey once a year, for the accountant. Why monthly or even weekly delivers more, and how to work out which frequency fits your yard.
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How AVG surveys six sites across two countries four times a year
Six yards in the Netherlands and Germany, one employee, one day per quarter. How AVG surveys its entire stock, and why comparability matters more there than any single measurement.
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