Ready-Mix Software That Handles Both Dispatch and Batching

Short answer: most ready-mix software handles dispatch or batching, not both. The platforms that do both are enterprise systems sold as separate modules, quoted after a sales call. C-Ment Dispatch does both in one flat $399/month, with no modules and no quote.

Dispatch and batching are different jobs, and the software market split along that line a long time ago.

Dispatch software answers: who’s taking this load, which truck, what time, where is it now. It lives with the person answering the phone.

Batching software answers: what actually went into the load. Target weights per material, actual scale weights, water, admixtures, and the record that proves it. It lives at the plant.

For a large producer running multiple plants, buying these separately makes sense — different teams, different vendors, integration handled by IT. For a producer running one plant and six trucks, it’s a problem: two systems, two subscriptions, two logins, and a gap between them that gets filled by hand-copying numbers off a clipboard.

A system that genuinely covers both should let you go from order to record without re-entering anything:

1. Take the order — customer, job site, mix design, yardage, time
2. Schedule it — assign a truck and driver, see the whole day at once
3. Dispatch it — the driver gets the job on their phone, updates status from the field
4. Batch it — target weights come from the mix design; you enter actual scale weights against them
5. Track materials — the batch draws down inventory automatically
6. Produce the record — a clean ticket, generated from data already entered

If a system does steps 1–3 but not 4–6, it’s dispatch software. If it does 4–6 but not 1–3, it’s plant software. The value of one system is that step 4 already knows what step 1 ordered.

We publish the price because you should be able to compare without booking a demo. The enterprise vendors don’t publish theirs — get a quote from them, then put it next to $4,788 a year and decide which was built for an operation your size.

Being clear about this saves you a wasted trial:

• No GPS truck tracking. Drivers update status from the app; there’s no live map.
• No invoicing. It produces the delivery record, not the invoice.
• No reporting dashboards. Data is exportable; there’s no analytics layer.
• No multi-plant support yet. Built for single-location producers.

If any of those is a must-have today, an enterprise platform is the better fit and you should use one.

• Order entry with mix design, pour type, slump, pump, and yardage
• Scheduling board for the whole day across your fleet
• Driver app for iOS and Android — free, unlimited drivers, works offline
• Site delivery logging: water added at the job, air entrainer added at the job, driver notes, delivery photos
• Batch records with target vs. actual scale weights per material
• Multi-material inventory that draws down automatically as you batch
• Printable job sheets and batch tickets
• Truck maintenance tracking

Producers running one plant and roughly 1–15 mixer trucks who are currently running dispatch on a whiteboard and batch records on paper — and who’ve been quoted something eye-watering by an enterprise vendor.

If you run multiple plants or need GPS and invoicing, you’re not the fit. That’s not modesty; it’s so you don’t waste a month finding out.

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