If you deliver propane, then you know the importance of keeping customers tanks full. Remotely monitor tank levels to auto-create orders in Route Manager. Never receive a dreaded call from a ticked off customer again because they ran out of gas!

What do fishing and remote tank monitoring have in common? 

Read this short excerpt from the June 2021 issue of the Butane-Propane News to see why. 

• *“From making that first decision to use remote tank monitoring, to starting our journey with the service, we have pushed through so many boundaries, identifying problem tanks, knowing exactly where to place the tank monitors and when to upsize a client’s tank, to being able to save on supply costs with a better understanding of our inventory,” Dick Schaffer said.

  By monitoring tanks and acting on the insights they provided, Sunrise Cooperative was able to achieve 50% fewer excess fills with fewer deliver stops, increasing profits. Their average fill rate increased significantly from 39% to 57% on monitored tanks. Customer service improved, with 3.5 times fewer out-of-gas events. Operations became more profitable with 50% fewer early drops and two times fewer zero-gallon drops.

  A year into Sunrise implementing the remote tank monitoring program, Schaffer came to his boss, Vice President of Energy Jason Kamann, at 2 p.m. on a Friday afternoon to let him know he was leaving early for the day to take his grandson fishing. Both Schaffer and Kamann knew from the remote tank monitor information the company now had access to that every customer on his route was all set for the weekend.

  Having seen the benefits of remote tank monitoring on reducing driver stress, improving the company’s operational efficiency and increasing his customers’ satisfaction, Schaffer had become an unexpected champion of industrial IoT (IIoT), which, at Sunrise Cooperative, took the form of remote tank monitoring. Schaffer told Kamann he wished they had brought in the monitoring program decades ago, because then he would have been able to take his own son fishing.

  * https://bpnews.com/technology/sunrise-cooperatives-move-remote-tank-monitoring?oly_enc_id=2893B5324467J4W 

Are you interested in seeing these positive changes in your own business. Click here to watch a 1-minute video to learn more about remote tank monitoring and how it can benefit you and your customers. 

A little more about Remote Tank Monitoring and how it works.

Mango Remote Tank Monitoring allows you to collect data directly from customer tank monitors (OtoData, DD Gas, Owl, Tank Utility and Centeron) and other devices. This data can then be used for important activities in your organization, such as for planning sales opportunities and optimizing delivery routes. 

At only $0.25 per month, per monitor, we make it affordable for every propane company to monitor their customers with smart technology. Here are a few more loved features.

• Add monitor serial numbers into Mango to associate it directly with the tank information.
•  Never miss a delivery. Set alarm levels in Mango such as Critical, Low or High to ensure your customers are attended to and equipment always serviced.
• Auto-create orders for delivery when the tank falls below a specific level. Automatically send a SMS notification to your customer to receive a prompt confirmation. 

You can’t run your operations optimally without this technology. How could it change your business if you knew the level of each customer’s tank? What if you could build routes around their needs and anticipate when they need to be serviced? Well, this isn’t some future technology… it exists and we want to show you exactly how it works and how you can get customer’s tank levels at your fingertips. 

Call Jon at 1.209.632.1122 ext. 588 and he can break down costs, savings and provide more information so you can start monitoring your tanks remotely ASAP… and then plan that fishing trip.

Remember: FULL TANK = HAPPY CUSTOMERS = COMPANY PROFITS