Pit & Quarry, October 2018
By the end of the two hour presentation and demonstration we were sold Rosenbarger says It was going to be the right thing for us to do Previously Delta Companies used an old fashioned method to manage inventory According to Rosenbarger a survey company used a rod and level to measure stockpiles before a GPS system was integrated to calculate inventory Rosenbarger estimates this method cost about 25000 so the company only employed the vendors services once a year To Rosenbarger this method just didnt cut it both for operational and accounting purposes The Southeast Missouri Quarry in Cape Girardeau Missouri is 400 ft deep and features 10 different benches that produce a variety of materials We would do it just once a year and that was really all we could muster up the appetite for Rosenbarger says Each of our quarries may have up to 20 piles Some are quite large piles so it takes a lot of time to do that According to Rosenbarger the Colas Group encouraged Delta Companies to have an accurate and closed accounting book every month To be more accurate in its accounting Delta Companies needed to know how much material was in stockpiles once a month not just once a year pitandquarry com October 2018 PIT QUARRY 13
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