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How Plumbing Supply Distributors Can Protect Margins with Better Business Systems

Margins aren’t usually lost through one major mistake. More often, they’re affected by the hundreds of inventory, purchasing, pricing, and warehouse decisions made every day. A buyer reorders fittings because inventory records show stock that’s no longer available. Product costs change, but pricing isn’t updated before a quote is created. Employees spend valuable time searching for inventory that should already be on the shelf. For plumbing supply distributors, these small

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ERP Financial Management Features Every Owner Should Know

When distributors evaluate ERP software, they often focus on inventory control, warehouse management, or order processing. Those capabilities matter, but financial management deserves equal attention. The right ERP helps connect financial activity with purchasing, sales, inventory, and customer transactions. As information updates across the business, leaders gain timely insight that support faster decisions. If you’re evaluating ERP software, these are the financial management capabilities every business owner should understand. Connected Financial Information Disconnected systems often create duplicate work and inconsistent

Signs Your Warehouse Processes May Be Holding You Back

Your warehouse team works hard to ship orders every day. From the outside, everything may appear to be running smoothly. Inventory moves through the building, and customers receive their products. But many wholesale distributors discover a different reality when they begin evaluating new software, warehouse technology, or barcode scanning systems. What seems like a technology project quickly becomes a conversation about warehouse processes. As a manager, you have to ask: why are certain tasks performed in a specific way? Why does inventory

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How Process Consistency Drives Customer Satisfaction

Being Consistent in your Processes: Why It Matters When customers call to ask why orders are incomplete or incorrect, or why a delivery arrived late, the issue usually is not the customer. More often, it is inconsistent internal processes. In wholesale distribution, especially in electrical, HVAC, plumbing, industrial, and janitorial supply, small inconsistencies add up fast. One branch handles orders one way. Another warehouse follows a different process. Meanwhile, showroom

Steps for Standardizing Distribution Workflows

Wholesale Distribution Business operations can be a complex landscape to navigate, especially when establishing workflows across different teams and functions. Standardizing effective workflows helps align your team, reduce confusion, and move the business forward more efficiently. The first step in standardizing workflows is determining whether the process qualifies as a good and effective workflow. Ask yourself the following questions when evaluating your workflow: If you answered yes to all of

Knowing When to Move on From QuickBooks: Signs for Upgrading to an ERP System

QuickBooks is a popular choice for many businesses as their first accounting software due to its affordable price point and user-friendly interface. However, as operations grow, distributors may find that QuickBooks’s limitations are beginning to hinder future growth. While you may have been able to address some of these issues with workarounds and additional software, you are likely starting to reach a point where it’s time to consider transitioning to

Leslie Electric Adapts to Changing Market Forces with Help from Cloud-Based ERP Software

For 95 years, Leslie Electric has supported growth and development throughout Michigan by supplying high-quality electrical components to contractors, builders, schools, and government agencies. From its single-location roots, the company has grown into a full-line, independently owned electrical wholesale distributor known for exceptional service, a vast inventory, and fast delivery. Upgrading to a Modern ERP System By 2016, Leslie Electric’s outdated ERP software was holding the company back. Inefficiencies, disconnected

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New Case Study Explores How a Multi-Location Industrial & Electrical Distributor Transitioned From Chaos to Cohesion

In the ever-evolving landscape of business management, efficient operations, streamlined processes, and data-driven decision-making are vital to success. For many companies, implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is the key to achieving these objectives. In our latest case study, Dickman Supply explains how Savance Enterprise ERP revitalized its Industrial & Electrical business. This multi-location distributor was able to overcome significant challenges and achieve remarkable results. The Challenge: Dickman Supply

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Deluxe Vanity & Kitchen Chooses Savance Enterprise’s Cloud-Based ERP Software to Advance Wholesale Operations

Luxury Products Group member Deluxe Vanity & Kitchen has selected Savance Enterprise as its ERP Software for future growth. The Van Nuys, California-based luxury showroom prides itself on being a one-stop-shop for high-end bathroom and kitchen fixtures. Their journey began in 2005 as a bathroom vanity manufacturer and wholesaler. Since then, Deluxe Vanity & Kitchen has expanded into a full home design and remodeling company. They focus on providing an

Discount Plumbing & Electrical Transitions to Savance Enterprise ERP to Unify Operations and Gain Control

Discount Plumbing & Electric Supply has, for a long time, been one of the few locally owned and operated supply houses in that industry in Tennessee. They have seen many competitors come and go in their more than 30 years in business. But President Tracy Foster struggled with keeping up with the competition. They were using the legacy software that had been in place for more than 30 years. Subsequently,

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