J&L Building Materials · distributor

Industry

Building materials distribution

Users

1 manager, 4 buyers, Daily

Scope

Demand and inventory, multi-branch

The Challenge

No forecast. Budget plus a few percent, and buyers checking categories on a rotation - roofing one day, siding the next..

The process had outgrown the team. The alternative was four or five more people.

Every stockout was answered by buying more next time, so excess stock built up year on year.

Stockouts and too much inventory, at the same time, across the same business.

What Hexight Did

Forecasting at the groups and aggregations that matched how they actually buy.

Working system four weeks after signature, producing output the team could use.

More than twenty years of history cleaned and brought in — a few hours a week from their side.

Go-live six weeks ahead of plan. Five people in the system daily.

Results

-75%

Stockouts

-20%

Inventory

“You guys have been absolutely fantastic. By far, the best implementation of everything I have ever done”

— Greg Hanichak, Head of Supply Chain

Where to start?

POC on your own data.
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