Streamline inventory management with customized reporting for stockpiles

For years, we’ve worked with customers in the mining and aggregates industries to improve our drone surveying platform around their real needs. From our conversations and our 2020 survey of earthwork professionals, we know how critical stockpile reporting and inventory management are to their operations.

In fact, 48% of respondents listed “material moved” as the most important metric when judging operational efficiency.

Propeller has always made it fast to capture high-precision stockpile measurements for inventory management. Now, we’re making it easier to put that data to work:

Our new inventory reporting feature makes it simple for mine and quarry managers, landfill operators, and construction managers to share the right stockpile data in a clear, easy-to-use format.

With customizable inventory reports, you can get everyone from production supervisors on site to auditors in the head office the data they need to make faster, more confident decisions.

The benefits of streamlined, specialized reporting

Smarter planning

Mine and quarry managers use stockpile reports to show how much stock is on hand and how much has moved since the last survey. This information drives financial forecasting, resource planning, and supply chain management. All of it depends on reliable, accurate stockpile data.

Propeller’s inventory reporting makes it easy for anyone in the organization to get the data they need, not just surveying and GIS professionals. When pulling inventory data doesn’t require specialized training, everything downstream moves faster.

See how Nevada Gold Mines’ chief surveyor is using daily drone data to manage stockpiles on a 40-mile mining site.

Better reconciliation

Efficient site management in mining and aggregates means measuring inventory carefully at every stage. The complexity of day-to-day operations means the numbers rarely line up perfectly from one phase to the next.

Every mining and aggregate operation is working to minimize discrepancies between:

• actual on-the-ground quantities
• records of materials produced (crushed rock coming off conveyors)
• material leaving the site

To close those gaps, most of our customers in these industries fly their sites once a month. Propeller’s PPK workflow makes it straightforward to capture data from a drone survey with 1/10 in (3 cm) accuracy tolerance.

With accurate, dependable stockpile volumes on hand, financial teams can reconcile actual and reported quantities with confidence when it comes time for an audit. Propeller’s reporting packages that data in a cleaner, more usable format, without the manual cleanup.