237 Batch Tickets This Month —
14 Can't Be Matched to a Placement Record
A 28-day cylinder break just came back at 3,200 PSI instead of 4,000. You need to trace it to the exact pour, the exact truck, the exact batch ticket. With paper logs, that takes 3 days. With POD, it takes 3 seconds.
The Paper Trail That Breaks Every Month
Concrete QC depends on connecting batch tickets to placements to test results. When any link breaks, the whole chain of custody falls apart.
Batch tickets arrive as paper slips
The ready-mix driver hands a paper ticket to whoever is standing near the pump. It goes in a pocket, a clipboard, or the mud. By end of day, 3 of 14 tickets are missing and nobody notices until the QC manager asks for them a week later.
Placement records live in a different log
The superintendent tracks pours in a field notebook or a separate spreadsheet. Batch tickets are filed elsewhere. Connecting ticket #4471 to the Level 3 east wing slab requires cross-referencing two systems that were never designed to talk to each other.
28-day break failure triggers a 3-day paper chase
A cylinder comes back at 3,200 PSI instead of 4,000. Which pour? Which truck? Which batch ticket? Your QC team spends 3 days pulling binders, matching ticket numbers to placement logs, and calling the plant for batch records.
Mix design substitutions approved verbally
The plant calls: "We are out of 5000-3/4. Can we send 4500-3/4 with a 7-sack?" The super says yes over the phone. No documentation. Two months later the engineer asks why the spec concrete was not used and nobody has a record of the approval.
How POD Closes the Batch-to-Placement Gap
From truck arrival to cylinder break results — every data point connected in real time.
Speak batch results from the field
As each truck arrives, speak the ticket number, mix design, yardage, batch time, and slump. POD captures and digitizes everything in real time.
AI matches tickets to placements
POD auto-links each batch ticket to the correct placement record using truck number, arrival time, pour location, and volume. Unmatched tickets surface immediately.
Dashboard shows reconciliation
Real-time reconciliation map shows matched vs. unmatched tickets, cylinder break countdown timers, and mix design compliance across every pour.
Every Ticket Tracked. Every Pour Traced.
POD replaces the paper trail with a digital chain of custody that connects batch plant data to field placements to lab results.
Voice-captured batch ticket intake
As each truck backs up to the pump, speak the ticket number, mix design, yardage, batch time, and slump. POD digitizes the ticket data and links it to the active pour in real time. No paper. No manual entry at the end of the day.
Automatic ticket-to-placement matching
POD maps each batch ticket to the placement record using truck number, arrival time, pour location, and volume. Unmatched tickets surface immediately — not a week later when someone finally asks for the reconciliation.
Cylinder break traceability chain
When a 28-day break comes in below spec, POD traces the cylinder back to the exact batch ticket, truck, pour location, and placement date. The full chain appears in seconds instead of a 3-day cross-reference effort.
Mix design compliance audit trail
Every batch ticket mix design is compared against approved submittals. Substitutions are flagged before the load is placed. Verbal approvals are captured and logged with timestamp, approver name, and rationale — no more undocumented changes.
Batch Plant to Cylinder Break — Every Link Visible
237 tickets flow from plant to field. 223 match a placement record. 14 diverge — flagged for immediate reconciliation.
237 Batch Tickets This Month — 14 Can't Be Matched to a Placement Record
These KPIs update automatically as batch tickets are captured and cylinder break results arrive. Every ticket, every placement, every test — connected.
Material Reconciliation
Quality Performance
Built for Concrete Quality Control
Batch-Ticket Scanner
Snap a photo of the paper batch ticket or speak the data aloud. POD OCR or voice pipeline extracts ticket number, mix design, water-cement ratio, admixtures, batch time, and yardage into structured fields.
Placement Record Linker
Automatic matching engine links each batch ticket to the pour location, structural element, and foreman on record. 237 tickets matched to 237 placements — with the 14 that cannot match highlighted for immediate action.
Cylinder Break Tracker
Track every set of cylinders from field casting through 7-day and 28-day breaks. When results arrive, POD maps them back to the original batch ticket and pour. Failed breaks trigger automatic traceability reports.
Mix Design Compliance Log
Side-by-side comparison of what the approved submittal specified vs. what the plant actually batched. Deviations in PSI, aggregate size, admixture dosage, and water content flagged before concrete is placed.
“We had a 28-day break come back at 3,150 on a post-tension slab. With POD we traced it to truck 14, ticket 4471, batched at 2:47 PM on February 12th. Without POD that would have been a week-long investigation. We had the full chain of custody in under a minute.”
— QC Manager, Commercial Concrete Contractor
Frequently Asked Questions
Stop Losing Batch Tickets Between the Plant and the Pour
See how POD matches every batch ticket to a placement record — and traces any failed cylinder break back to the exact pour in seconds.