About Progressive Solutions

A history of success

Since 1989 Progressive Solutions has created innovative business software solutions for the wood products industry. From the very beginning, we established a tradition of strong research and development coupled with customer input when creating our products. Through exceptional industry knowledge and product excellence, we’ve achieved steady annual growth and earned the market leading position for enterprise management software in the wood products industry, including bisTrack and lumberTrack software.

All round expertise

With geographic and product line expansions, we’ve extended our business software solutions to serve other sectors in the wood products and building materials supply chain worldwide. We currently offer inventory software and management services that address the needs of log yards, hardwood and softwood sawmills and panel mills, value-added manufacturers, lumber wholesalers and brokers, and building materials distributors and dealers. Customers of all sizes benefit from our years of experience and commitment to quality, which help them improve their processes and streamline their businesses.

Global knowledge

As Progressive Solutions continues to grow, our company now operates around the world, serving customers on three continents. You’ll find our headquarters in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, and we also have sales and branch offices across North America and in the United Kingdom too.

Testimonials

  • "I think highly of the people at Progressive Solutions. They have a professional approach, they understand the lumber business, and they meet their commitments."

    Joe Kusar
    Vice President & General Manager of Tolleson Lumber Co

  • "We were up 5 points of margin within ten months using bisTrack™ pricing management and margin review. The payback happened in just months."

    Brian King
    President of Construction Supply

  • "Since our conversion to bisTrack we have seen big pluses with purchasing and costing accuracy which have definitely contributed to the bottom line."

    Brad White
    President of White's Lumber

  • "We know these are the kind of people we want to partner with long-term, with the vision and values that are critical to a mutually successful relationship."

    David Jones
    President of Brookside Lumber

  • "We’ve fixed problems, eliminated data re-entry and repurposed valuable employees. bisTrack helped us be more productive with fewer people."

    Candy Loweke
    Process Analyst, Raymond Building Supply

  • "With bisTrack we have cut our costs while increasing the speed and quality of service to our customers."

    John Steinman
    VP of Purchasing and IT Services, Forge Lumber

  • "We used to go blind on what our costs were. Now we can audit every single job in millwork, see what our waste is and know what things are really costing us."

    Lan McIlvain
    Alan McIlvain Company

  • "We were looking for software we could grow with. lumberTrack and Great Plains are going to give us the ability to dig down and get the reporting data we need to make our decisions. They have streamlined our workflow and the general ledger."

    Sherry Sabbatini
    Deer Park Lumber

  • "lumberTrack’s™ business logic is rock solid. It’s a very configurable system and Progressive Solutions, as a business partner has been awesome."

    Mike Beye
    Chief Value Officer of Vaagen Bros. Lumber Co