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hault. Suddenly, drivers were no
longer allowed to handle paper or to
go inside of the batch facility during
their unloading process. So, Lauren
Concrete's suppliers would come
to the plant and unload their trucks
while the operations manager or
plant manager would accept the load
through CONNEX via their mobile app.
"It actually made us more efficient
because we didn't have to waste that
time going through that paperwork
process and everything's tracked all
the way up to the plant," said Ryan
Cupps, Operations Manager at Lauren
Concrete. CONNEX Inbound Materials
takes the information found on paper
tickets and digitizes it to automatically
update inventory and reconcile
material and haul tickets with invoices,
so that Lauren Concrete can focus
on their inbound processes as much
as they do their outbound processes.
As inbound deliveries occur, digitized
data flows into the system and
automatically updates inventory
levels so that they are confident that
they have the materials on hand to
complete their orders for the day.
Lauren Concrete uses
COMMANDbatch as their ready mix
production system, and their batch operators know all too well the pain of
having to manually key in the data from
the stack of tickets that they collect
each day into the system. When
working with suppliers on CONNEX,
there is already an electronic form of
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Raw material bins at Lauren Concrete
in Autin,Texas
Lauren Concrete relies on Command Alkon
systems for inventory management
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