Suppliers near our mine towns
Equipment, tyre, diesel and gas suppliers near each mine town.
What it does
Every quarter: mining equipment suppliers, tyre shops, diesel engine repair and industrial gas suppliers within 50 km of each mine town in your table, the best-rated first, in a sheet for procurement.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take your table, find mining equipments, tire shops and 2 more nearby, remove duplicates, clean up their categories, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A breakdown at a remote mine costs a fortune. A current list of nearby suppliers shortens every repair.
Who it is for
Mining, oil & gas. Mining companies, oil and gas operators and their suppliers keeping remote sites safe, supplied and on good terms with their neighbours. Every use case for mining, oil & gas
Best use cases
- A mine procurement team
- A mining contractor
- An equipment rental company
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our mine townsYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Suppliers nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Each supplier onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
- Sort by kindxMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
- Update the suppliers sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
More for Mining, oil & gas
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- Local businesses for our supplier development programme: Local businesses graded as suppliers for the supplier development programme.
- Gas companies and industrial gas suppliers for B2B sales: Gas companies scored as distribution partners, with the commercial manager.
- ESG section: people, services and land around each site: People, services and land around each site, as an ESG section.
- Heat at remote sites: work and rest cycles: Tomorrow’s heat at each remote site, with a work-rest cycle.