HG Oil Holdings — Loss Center to Profit Center
A centralized inventory platform replaced a phone-call-and-spreadsheet process — 95% back-office time reduction, 75%+ accuracy improvement, and a recovered margin line.
No centralized visibility, no live counts, no way to know what was where.
Before the build, HG Oil Holdings had no centralized inventory visibility across sites. There were no live counts. Knowing what was where required phone calls to operators in the field.
Transportation and reconditioning costs were quietly eating margin. Materials that should have been recoverable assets were functionally sitting as liabilities on the books — because nobody could see them, value them, or move them between sites without a manual chain of calls and emails.
One link, live counts, codified cost formulas across every site.
Preisser Solutions built a centralized web application — accessible via a single link, role-aware across the operations team. It records all incoming materials, provides live inventory counts per site, and enables inter-site transfers with a full audit trail.
Built-in cost formulas automatically track and mark up values as materials move and get reconditioned. The line that had previously been a loss center became measurable, manageable, and ultimately profitable.
What the platform does.
Custom web application with single-link access for every authorized user
Live inventory counts per site, updated in real time as materials move
Inter-site transfer tracking with full audit trail (who, what, when, where)
Codified cost and markup formulas applied automatically per material type
Multi-role access across operations, accounting, and management
Replaces phone-call-driven reconciliation with self-serve visibility
Inventory operations
- All incoming materials recorded at point of arrival
- Live per-site counts visible to every authorized role
- Inter-site transfers logged with origin, destination, and quantity
- Reconditioning cycle tracked from arrival through sale
Cost and margin tracking
- Codified cost formulas applied automatically per material type
- Markup logic baked into the system — no manual recalculation
- Margin visibility per site and per material category
- Audit trail supports finance and operations reconciliation
Outcomes the engagement actually produced.
Back-office time spent tracking, calling, and reconciling logistics dropped by 95% once the platform went live.
Inventory accuracy across sites improved by 75% or more — moving from rough estimates to live counts.
An operational line that was running as a loss center was converted into a profitable, measurable unit.
Over ten staff hours per week were freed up across the operations team — time previously lost to manual reconciliation.
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