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Inventory

# Truck Stock For Plumbers: Stop Losing Margin To Untracked Parts

August 20, 20261 min read JobOpsPro

How plumbing companies track truck and warehouse inventory, set reorder points, generate purchase orders, and post parts to jobs for accurate costing.

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Most plumbing shops know roughly what is on each truck. Roughly is where margin goes to die.

## Warehouses And Trucks Are Both Locations

Treat every truck as a stocking location. Transfers from the warehouse to a truck are recorded, so you can answer where the last three water heaters went.

## Reorder Points Do The Reminding

Set a minimum for common fittings, wax rings, supply lines, and cartridges. When stock drops below it, the system flags the item and can generate a purchase order to the supply house instead of relying on someone noticing an empty bin.

## Parts Post To The Job

When a technician logs a part on a job, stock decreases and the cost lands on that job. Job costing stops being an estimate and becomes a record.

## Purchase Orders With A Paper Trail

Vendor, expected quantities, and received quantities. Receiving against a PO catches short shipments and price creep before they hit a month-end statement nobody reads closely.

## What It Changes

Two things happen after a quarter of honest tracking. First, you find out which jobs are actually profitable — often not the ones you assumed. Second, you stop paying twice: once for the supply-house run mid-job, and again in the lost hour it took.

## Included, Not An Upsell

Inventory and purchasing are part of JobOpsPro at $25 per user per month, alongside dispatch, estimating, invoicing, and memberships. There is no higher tier to buy when your shop grows a second truck.

## Run This In Your Own Shop

JobOpsPro is $25 per user per month with unlimited customers and jobs.

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