St Boswells Fuels

About St Boswells Fuels

St Boswells Fuels is a specialist supplier of co-products, waste materials and agricultural crops to anaerobic digestion (AD) plants across Scotland and England. Their work plays a key role in renewable gas production, with AD plants converting these feedstocks into clean biomethane that feeds directly into the national grid.

Their operation supports large-scale sustainability goals: keeping usable materials in circulation, generating low-carbon energy, and helping homes and businesses access greener gas. As demand for renewable energy grows, so does the pressure for reliable, well-planned feedstock supply into AD sites.

Learn more: https://charlesfieldfarms.co.uk/anaerobic-digestion/

The Outcome

“Mapify has provided us with a process and a platform to monitor deliveries, delivery times, and to ensure we get consistency to the AD plants to produce maximum output. Mapify has helped bring other team members in so we're all on the same page instead of having a group of spreadsheets that could cause issues if data isn't inputted correctly.”

- Russell Anderson, Procurement Manager, St Boswells Fuels

The Challenge

For AD plants, consistency is everything. If feedstock arrives late, arrives in the wrong order, or is unexpectedly cancelled, gas output can dip almost immediately.

Before Mapify, St Boswells Fuels coordinated all planning through spreadsheets and manual communication. As the business expanded and the number of weekly deliveries increased, this created several issues:

• Limited visibility across a growing network of customers and sites

• Difficulty planning because updates were scattered across emails and calls

• High amounts of reactive problem-solving when deliveries changed last minute

• No simple way to keep suppliers and internal teams aligned

For a business responsible for fuelling renewable energy production, this lack of clarity was becoming a real operational bottleneck.

What They Wanted to Improve

St Boswells Fuels were looking for a way to:

• Strengthen the consistency of feedstock supply into AD plants

• Gain clearer, more immediate visibility across all planned and completed deliveries

• Reduce time spent firefighting and increase time spent planning

• Keep teams and suppliers working from the same, accurate information

• Create a logistics process that could scale with the business

Why They Chose Mapify

Mapify stood out because it offered something spreadsheets never could: a live, visual overview of everything happening in their logistics operation.

With Mapify, they gained:

• A visual planning environment that shows every site, delivery and status in one place

• A fast way to duplicate and manage weekly recurring work, saving hours of admin

• Built-in communication tools to update teams and suppliers instantly

• A system that’s simple enough to adopt quickly but robust enough to grow with them

It gave their logistics team clarity, control, and consistency - all in a single platform.

Implementation

One of the biggest advantages for St Boswells Fuels was how quickly they could start using Mapify:

• Platform setup: ~15 minutes

• Data import (sites, historic deliveries, workflows): ~1 hour

• Training their logistics team: 30 minutes

That same afternoon, their entire logistics workflow was operating inside Mapify.

The Impact

The shift was immediate.

Instead of reacting to issues as they occur, St Boswells Fuels now plans with confidence. Their weekly logistics schedule and cash flow planning, which previously required manual rebuilding, can now be created in seconds using duplicated workflows.

Key improvements include:

• Significantly reduced time spent on weekly planning (~1 day per week)

• Far fewer miscommunications between drivers, suppliers and internal teams

• Greater resilience when deliveries change or get postponed

• A more consistent feedstock supply into AD plants, supporting stable gas output

Additionally, the team has reported a noticeable reduction in stress and last-minute problems - a major win for a growing business in a time-critical sector.

Features They Rely On Most

• Delivery Scheduling: simple, clear, and built for repeated weekly operations

• Supplier & Team Sharing: real-time updates that keep everyone aligned

• Financial Dashboard: monitoring revenue, profit and cash flow

This is just the beginning. Mapify launches new features each week, working collaboratively with St Boswells Fuels to improve the product experience.