Parts disappear from trucks, techs make extra supply runs, and no one knows what's on which vehicle until it's too late.
Key Finding: Independent workflow analysis indicates that unresolved inventory & parts tracking issues in Landscaping & Lawn Care operations hinder efficiency. Research shows that Unsystematic parts and truck inventory tracking lead to an average annual shrinkage of 8% to 15% in tool assets [1]. Specifically for Landscaping & Lawn Care teams, Inventory shrinkage in untracked environments runs 2–10% of total inventory value. The U.S. lost $112.1 billion to inventory shrinkage in 2022 [2].
Commercial and residential landscape maintenance, design/build, irrigation, and hardscaping.
600,000+
US Companies
$500K–$3M
Avg. Revenue
5–30 crew members
Field Crew Size
5% annually
Growth Rate
Landscape companies run high-volume, low-margin routes where per-property profitability matters. Paper route sheets, handwritten chemical logs, and manual time tracking hide which accounts are profitable and which are bleeding money.
Objective third-party statistics and research benchmarks relative to inventory & parts tracking and landscaping & lawn care workflows.
Mulch, fertilizer, and plant material loaded onto trailers each morning. The crew leader signs out materials on a clipboard. End of month, actual material costs are 20% over estimates.
Untracked material usage masks shrinkage and over-application, eroding margins on landscape install jobs by 10–20%.
“Inventory shrinkage in untracked environments runs 2–10% of total inventory value. The U.S. lost $112.1 billion to inventory shrinkage in 2022.”
— National Retail Federation / APQC Benchmarking, 2023 [2]
Untracked truck inventory leads to 8–15% parts shrinkage and 2+ hours/week of wasted drive time per tech.
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