Aerial view of a red-rock quarry below a desert mountain, with crushing plant and stockpiles

Thirteen quarries.
One system.

A family-owned producer mines decorative rock across the American Southwest. We built what moves it, from the order to the truck to the invoice.

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The client

Family owned since 1998.

The client quarries landscape, architectural and boulder rock in 22 colours, and ships it by truck to contractors, landscapers and distributors across the western United States.

  • Gold decorative rock, close upGold
  • Red decorative rock, close upRed
  • Brown decorative rock, close upBrown
  • Modern decorative rock, close upModern
Before

Thirteen quarries ran on phone calls.

Orders came in by phone and text. Trucks went to whoever called first.

Weighbridge tickets, delivery notes and purchase orders met for the first time at month end.

What we built

One engine under every screen.

A load, an invoice and a production number describe the same event, so nobody reconciles them later.

The admin console: the Open Jobs dispatch board across every quarry site
The admin console. Every open job across 13 sites, on one board.
The customer portal: scheduled deliveries per load with truck and loaded tons
The customer portal. Every load, truck and ton, as it moves.
The admin console: purchase order progress bars per order line
Purchase orders. Ordered against delivered, line by line.
A green tri-axle dump truck parked outside a depot

Pit to job site, one record.

Aerial view of a terraced quarry in a desert valley, haul roads winding between blue-grey benches
The first twelve months

The numbers that moved.

  • 13quarry sites on one system, one shared truck fleet.
  • 2,140invoices matched and issued with zero manual touches.
  • 11,200operations hours returned to the team.
In the field

Three apps. One for every hand on the load.

Native iPhone apps, published under the client's own name and built by us.

  • Customer app: dispatched and received tons for today, last week, last month and last year

    Customer app

    Track deliveries in real time.

  • Driver app: the delivery signature pad with Clear and Save

    Driver app

    The load, the route, the signature.

  • Trucker app: dispatched loads with pickup number, quarry and pending pickup status

    Trucker app

    The hauler's fleet and dispatches.

How we worked

Since 2020. Still running.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Two weeks inside the sites mapped every order, truck and ticket.

  2. 02

    Build

    One dispatch engine first, then every surface on top of it.

  3. 03

    Ship

    Web consoles for dispatch and customers. Three iPhone apps for the field.

  4. 04

    Run

    The Brain proposes each truck with its reasoning. A dispatcher approves.

The same systems, written up: Quarry dispatch automation · Plant production reporting · Freight reconciliation

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