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and improve site safety and have been an integral partner in APTIM ’ s success in finding better ways of doing things .
Shah expands , “ As we were previously almost a hundred per cent manual when it comes to material management , Intelliwave Technologies is really bringing in a whole different dimension into the way we execute jobs . They bring a very niche and specific offering and have developed a tool specifically for material management , everything from managing your inventory and warehousing to receiving and allocating material to your job site , which on a construction site , depending on your scope of construction , can be extremely complex . We can have thousands or even millions of parts , and all of this ultimately is dollars . So if you ' re not watching it , you could risk losing it .”
" Ballooning inventory erodes margins , so we took it another step further and looked at how we could improve the planning on our jobs — for instance , leveraging smart technology for better inventory management . We can now see how much material we have and where . We can plan ahead and see if we have an upcoming shortage , and then we can take actions to prevent that shortage . We can also report and track where there is product damage , which allows us to then go back to a vendor and recover some of those costs .
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