Material goes missing between the store, the site and the work.
What ERP Infra does: Average consumption per unit of work is the yardstick. Anything issued above it is tracked as leakage.
Why it happens
Cement, steel, sand and aggregate are issued from the store in bags, tonnes and truckloads. The work is measured in cubic metres and square metres. On most sites nobody joins the two, so nobody can say whether 842 bags was the right number for the day’s pour.
The loss is rarely one large theft. It is a few bags a day, a short truck, an over-issue that was never returned. Each is too small to chase on the day, and none of it is written down in one place.
How ERP Infra handles it
Average consumption set per material
Cement, steel, sand, aggregate, blocks: a standard rate per unit of work, set by you, used as the yardstick every day.
Leakage tracked, not estimated
Issued against needed is worked out from the day’s work done, per site and per material. Excess above allowed wastage is flagged and must be explained.
Material in transit is tracked
The store sends, the site confirms. If less arrives than was sent, the difference has to be explained, not quietly absorbed.
Count against the record
Opening plus received, minus issued and returned, compared with a physical count, in quantity and in value.
Measured in the pilot
Bags issued against bags needed, per site and per material, against the allowed wastage. Shown with your numbers, not ours.
Questions people ask
- How do you measure material leakage on a construction site?
- Set an average consumption for each material per unit of work, for example 6.5 bags of cement per cubic metre of concrete. Multiply it by the work done that day to get what should have been used, and compare that with what the store issued. If 120 cubic metres were poured, 780 bags were needed. If 842 were issued, 62 bags are unaccounted for. ERP Infra does this sum for every site and every material each day.
- What is an acceptable wastage percentage for cement and steel?
- It depends on the material and on your own practice, so ERP Infra lets you set the allowed wastage per material. Usage above that allowance is flagged and needs an explanation from the site.
- Does the system stop theft?
- It makes loss visible on the day it happens and attaches it to a site, a material and a person who has to explain it. That is usually what changes behaviour.
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