Ready-Mix Concrete
Concrete is perishable. Your operation has ninety minutes to get it right.
Concrete is perishable and the operation has ninety minutes to get it right. Orders, mix designs, silo stock, transit mixers, pumps and site conditions, all against a clock that does not stop.
Operational areas
- Batching
- Transit mixers
- Pumps
- Quality
- Billing
Built for this
RMC Management System
Orders, batching, transit mixers, pumps and billing
One afternoon
The plant batches eight cubic metres for a site in Wakad. The pump takes six and a half before the site says stop. Half a load comes back and goes into the waste pit. The challan says eight. The bill says eight. The cement register says eight was consumed. Only one of those three is true, and at month end somebody spends four days working out which.
RMC & Construction Materials businesses manage a constant flow of
- Orders
- Mix designs
- Cement & aggregates
- Silo stock
- Transit mixers
- Pumps
- Site schedules
- Cube tests
- Challans
- Receivables
The operation
How the business runs — and where it stops being visible
Every stage produces information. The problem is rarely any single stage; it is that they never meet. The marked stages are where the record either stops, or stops being trusted.
Order
Grade & schedule
Batching
TM loading
Returned and short-loaded concrete leaves the plant but never comes back into stock
Site dispatch
Pumping
Pump hours and site waiting are the costs nobody logs against the order
Slump & cube
Test results live in a register that the billing side never sees
Challan
Billing
Where it breaks
The problems that cost real money
Not the ones a brochure lists. The ones that come up when you sit with the person doing the work.
What you batched and what you billed do not agree
Short loads, returned concrete, site rejections, unrecorded top-ups. The plant register and the sales register tell different stories, and reconciling them by hand takes days nobody has.
Cement consumption quietly drifts from the mix design
Actual against theoretical is the single clearest signal of loss in an RMC plant. Most plants compute it once a month, if at all, by which point the money is gone.
Returned concrete belongs to nobody
Site not ready. Pump failed. Load rejected. It comes back, goes into the pit, and gets recorded on a slip that never reaches costing. Pure loss, uncosted.
Transit mixer cycle time is invisible
Plant to site, waiting at site, unloading, return. Nobody measures it, so nobody can say whether the fleet is genuinely short or just sitting outside a customer's gate.
Pump and shifting charges are agreed at site and lost by billing
Boom pump hire, extra shifting, waiting charges. Real money, agreed verbally by someone standing in the mud, forgotten by the time the bill is raised.
You know the plant is profitable. You do not know which site is
Multiple sites, grades and rates running at once. Plant-level profit tells you nothing about which contract is worth keeping.
What changes
What the system changes
The delivery challan becomes the spine. Every batch, every TM trip, every pump hour and every returned load hangs off it. Billed volume reconciles to batched volume on its own, and cement variance is a number you check on Tuesday rather than discover in April.
The product
Built for this industry: RMC Management System
RMC Management System connects customer orders, mix designs, batching, transit mixers, pumps, quality records and billing, so batched volume, delivered volume and billed volume finally agree.
Orders & scheduling
Customer orders by site and grade, pour schedule, daily plan, site-wise rate contracts
Mix design
Grade-wise designs from M15 upward, material proportions, admixture dosing, theoretical consumption
Batching
Batch records, actual vs design consumption, plant-wise output, batch-to-challan linkage
Transit mixers
TM allocation, trip cycle across plant, site, waiting and return, driver, diesel, cycle time by site
Pumps
Boom and line pump allocation, pumping hours, shifting and waiting charges, pump-wise utilisation
Quality
Slump records, cube casting and testing schedule, 7-day and 28-day results, test certificates
Custom & enterprise
When the product isn't the whole answer
Multiple plants under one management, captive fleets, ERP-linked procurement, or a rate structure specific to your contracts. Where the product stops, custom and enterprise work carries on from the same foundation.
Our approach
However it gets built, it starts the same way
We spend time in the operation before proposing anything. The first three stages finish before a single screen is designed.
Understand
How the business actually works
Analyse
Where time, money and clarity are lost
Research
What the better way forward looks like
Design
Workflows, data and interfaces
Build
Modern, maintainable technology
Evolve
Improve as the business changes
Let's understand your operation.
Tell us how the business runs today and where it becomes difficult. We'll start there.