Keep More Revenue · Inventory Leakage
The part you can't find still costs you money.
Truck inventory management is where a quiet form of revenue leakage lives: the part that wasn't on the truck, the second trip that ate a billable slot, the emergency supplier run at full retail. The job still gets done — it just costs more and produces less every time it happens.
Where the money goes
Nobody actually knows what's on each truck. Techs stock from memory, borrow from each other, and hoard the parts they've been burned on. A job stalls because a common capacitor or fitting isn't on board, so the tech drives to the supply house — or comes back tomorrow. The customer waits, the schedule slips, and a slot you could have sold to the next job gets spent finishing one you already sold. Meanwhile parts leave trucks without a record, and the cash tied up in dead stock never shows on any report.
A second trip pays your tech and your truck twice to earn the same ticket once.
The leak, line by line
How inventory leakage revenue leaks
| Leakage point | How revenue leaks | What JobOS Pro measures |
|---|---|---|
| Second trips | A missing part turns one visit into two — the extra drive and slot are unbillable | Second-trip rate per completed job |
| Stockout reschedules | Jobs pushed to another day when parts aren't on board — some never rebook | Jobs rescheduled for parts |
| Emergency supply runs | Mid-job supplier trips buy retail-priced parts with paid labor idling | Off-plan purchases per week |
| Untracked usage | Parts leave trucks without a job record — shrinkage hides in the mess | Usage recorded vs. stock consumed |
| Parts used, never billed | Truck-stock materials installed on site never reach the invoice | Material usage vs. billed |
| Dead stock | Cash sits in parts nobody uses while the parts everyone needs run out | Stock turns by truck |
How JobOS Pro closes it
Stop the leak, keep the revenue.
- Track truck-level stock so dispatch and techs see what's actually on board — not what the whiteboard says.
- Check parts against the job before the truck rolls, so the work order and the shelf agree before the drive.
- Replenish on min/max by truck, based on what each tech's job mix actually consumes.
- Tie parts usage to the job and the invoice, so materials get billed and shrinkage gets visible.
- Surface second trips and stockout-caused reschedules as a number you manage weekly, not an anecdote.
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