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Welding Gas Distributors

You know where your trucks are. Do you know where your cylinders are?

Welding gas distributors own thousands of cylinders sitting at customer sites. Every cylinder out on rent is revenue waiting to be billed - or lost capital if it never comes back. TMI builds the tracking and billing systems that close the gap between cylinders deployed and revenue collected.

The Problem

The three ways gas distributors leave money sitting on the floor

Cylinder rental and gas distribution is an asset-intensive business. The margin lives in tight asset tracking, timely reorders, and accurate per-unit billing. Most distributors have gaps in all three.

01

Cylinders That Never Come Back

A customer closes a job site and your cylinders are still there. No one calls to schedule a return pickup. Six months later the cylinders are gone - left in a corner, moved to another site, or simply lost. The replacement cost is yours to absorb.

02

Cylinder Rental Billing Gaps

You charge a daily or monthly rental on cylinders out at customer sites. When your records don't match where the cylinders actually are, you under-bill. Systematically. Year over year. For most mid-size distributors this gap runs into tens of thousands of dollars annually.

03

Route Delivery Timing Mismatch

A customer calls because they ran out of gas on a Thursday afternoon. Your route doesn't run their area until Tuesday. Emergency delivery dispatched, margin evaporated on the rush run. Demand forecasting would have prevented the stockout before the emergency call happened.

What TMI Builds

Six systems. One operating layer.

Built for welding gas distributors managing cylinder fleets, scheduled routes, and industrial customer accounts where every asset deployed should be generating revenue and every delivery should be timed before the customer runs out.

01

Cylinder Tracking by Serial

Every cylinder tracked from fill to delivery to customer site to return. Location known at every step. Returns triggered automatically when dwell time exceeds contract terms. Lost cylinders identified and charged systematically.

02

Rental Billing Accuracy

Cylinder rental billed against actual check-out and check-in dates per serial number. No more flat monthly estimates. Every day a cylinder is at a customer site is a billed day. Revenue that was previously slipping through tracked and collected.

03

Demand-Based Route Scheduling

Delivery routes built around customer consumption patterns rather than fixed schedules. Customers with high burn rates get more frequent delivery. Stockout calls go to near zero. Emergency runs become rare events instead of weekly problems.

04

Customer Account Management

Gas mix preferences, cylinder types, pricing tiers, and payment terms stored per account. Deliveries matched to account specs automatically. No more delivering the wrong gas mix to a customer who needed something specific.

05

Cylinder Fleet Health

Hydrostatic test dates, inspection records, and service history tracked by serial number. Cylinders flagged when tests are due. Regulatory compliance maintained without manual tracking across thousands of individual assets.

06

Driver Delivery Documentation

Deliveries documented on a mobile app at the point of service - quantity, serial numbers, customer signature. Disputes resolved with delivery records. Invoices generated from actual delivery data, not memory or paper manifests.

97%
Cylinder recovery rate when return triggers are built into the rental tracking system
$34K
Average annual rental revenue recovered at a mid-size distributor through accurate billing
76%
Reduction in emergency delivery runs when demand-based scheduling is in place
100%
Regulatory compliance on cylinder inspection schedules when tracked automatically
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Build the operating system your welding gas distributors business needs.

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