Diesel and machine hours leak without anyone noticing.
What ERP Infra does: Readings carry over automatically. Diesel per hour is compared with normal, and any jump is flagged.
Why it happens
Diesel is bought in bulk, issued by hand and booked as a general expense. A machine’s hour meter is noted on paper, when it is noted at all. Nothing ties the litres issued to the hours worked.
Idle hours and hired machines add to it. A machine standing idle still costs its hire and its operator, and the vendor’s bill is paid on the vendor’s count of days and hours.
How ERP Infra handles it
Diesel is stock, not an expense
Received, issued to each machine, and reconciled against a physical dip. A shortfall has to be explained.
Readings that cannot be fudged
Today’s opening reading is yesterday’s closing, filled in automatically and not editable. Any gap has to be explained.
Fuel and other leakage flagged
Litres per hour and kilometres per litre are compared with the machine’s normal. A machine suddenly burning 40% more per hour is flagged the same day.
Idle and breakdown hours visible
Working, idle and breakdown hours are logged daily per machine.
Hire bills verified before payment
The vendor’s billed days and hours are checked against your own daily logs.
Measured in the pilot
Litres per hour against each machine’s normal, idle hours, and hire bills against your own logs. Shown with your numbers, not ours.
Questions people ask
- How do you detect diesel theft on a construction site?
- Treat diesel as stock and tie every issue to a machine and its meter reading. ERP Infra works out litres per hour for each machine each day and compares it with that machine’s normal. A sudden rise is flagged, whether the cause is a fault, idling, or diesel leaving the site.
- Does ERP Infra need GPS or fuel sensors on the machines?
- No. It works from daily readings and diesel issues entered at site. The opening reading is carried over from the previous day automatically, which is what keeps the log honest.
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