Every tool, machine and pallet on one register, with what it cost, what it is worth and which job it is standing on. Picked against the actual serial number and the actual bin, signed for on handover, and back off the job before anyone forgets it was ever there.
Materials and plant are a large slice of a contracting firm's money and the least visible. The stock figure was right in January. The plant register is a spreadsheet somebody maintained until they left. Nothing here is anybody's fault, and all of it is a record-keeping problem rather than a discipline problem.
This half of the platform has been running a stores operation since 2016, feeding a central yard out to dozens of live sites and getting it all back again. It was built by people who had to answer for the missing telehandler.
Every item of plant and access equipment serialised, valued and located. The catalogue doubles as the schedule your insurer asks for.
A continuous record that is only ever added to, never overwritten. Every movement, whatever caused it, in one history.
Quantities held per named bin, so the number on screen is the number on the shelf. Picks can split across bins and can never over-allocate.
A named bundle of materials, plant and access equipment you always issue together, with its own labour allowance. Requested and issued as one line.
The picker is walked through each line, choosing the actual serial number going out and the bin the material comes from. Signed for on receipt.
Bring it back to the store, or move it straight to the next job without a pointless round trip. Damage can be flagged on the line as it is picked up.
Raised against a specific item, which logs it out of active service so it cannot be issued while broken. Closed only when a test result is recorded.
Captured on the phone where the damage was found, with the job, the location, the itemised parts and an estimated cost from a maintained spares list.
Printed labels for assets and posters for projects. Scan the label on the machine and its register entry, service history and certificates open on the phone.
These are not tabs on a screen. Each one is a real register with its own fields, its own history and its own audit trail, and they all read from the same catalogue, so an item means the same thing everywhere it appears.
A real Tuesday at a firm running a central yard against nine live sites. Every event below moves the stock figure, the asset location or the condition record at the moment it happens, rather than at a stock take in March.
Raised on the phone against the job: materials, two items of plant and a whole kit. It lands in the store's queue before the yard has opened.
Free to edit while it was a draft. Once picking starts it locks, so what has already gone out is protected from a late change.
The screen offers the in-stock serial numbers to pick from, and shows every bin holding the material with its quantity. It cannot over-allocate.
Receiver's name and signature captured. The plant reassigns to that job, the materials come off the ledger and out of the bins they were picked from. No posting step to forget.
Job, location, the damaged part, a recommended repair and an estimated cost from the spares list. Photographs, video and a signature attached at the moment of discovery.
Logged out of active service the instant the repair is raised, so it cannot be issued to the next job while it is broken. It returns when a test result says it passed.
Every job finishing this fortnight with equipment still allocated to it, on one screen. Two pickups booked. Nothing left behind to discover in six months.
Every supplier in this market has a list like this. Most of them make you find it during the demonstration, or worse, in month three. Here is ours, on the page, before you have spoken to anybody.
We would rather you read that here than find it in a demonstration. Everything else on this page is running in a live business today.
The full list lives at /faqs. These six come up in every conversation about plant and stock.
Your real yard, your real plant, your real sites.
From your spreadsheet, your paper cards, your old system.
QR labels generated, printed and applied on a screen-share.
UK office, working hours, real phone number.
The yard, the site, the office, the directors. Same price.