Brookside Lumber partners with Progressive Solutions for new system

Brookside Lumber partners with Progressive Solutions for new system

Author: T. Lavigne
Date: May 04 2010


Vancouver, BC, (May 4, 2010) - Brookside Lumber has joined the growing list of customers who have purchased and implemented the bisTrack solution to replace their legacy software. With more than 100 users spread across 4 locations, bisTrack gives Brookside what they need to run their daily operations and make key decisions for ongoing success.

Brookside Lumber is a well-recognized, family owned building material supplier in the Pittsburgh, PA area. Based in Bethel Park, the company was founded by developer PS Edwards more than 80 years ago. Today, the third generation of the Edwards family is actively involved in the day-to-day operation of the company, and many of their current employees have worked at Brookside for more than 20 years—some even 40 years.

With a mandate to provide the best possible customer service and product offerings, Brookside has invested in their people and their facilities through the years, as well as office software technology. However, it soon became apparent that new software would be required to facilitate continued growth and success.

Dave Jones, President of Brookside recalls, “We used to spend a great deal of time digging for data or working around in our old system.”  Brookside needed a better way to fulfill their information needs. They began an extensive evaluation period of available offerings in the marketplace. 

Randy Faris of PSI (Progressive Solutions) says, “Brookside knew changing systems could quite possibly mean a 15-20 year commitment.  They saw bisTrack as a 20 year platform, and just as importantly, PSI as a 20 year partner to take them in the direction they wanted to head.”

After a very thorough and detailed analysis, bisTrack was the clear winner—a fresh approach built on a platform they believed in long term: Microsoft and SQL. The software could quickly and easily provide the information Brookside required to successfully run and grow their business.

Says Jones, "The architecture behind bisTrack gives us user friendly integrated access to our data as well as pushing it to the decision makers.” He added, “Beyond the technology is the quality of the people behind it. We feel very good about partnering with Progressive Solutions and their commitment to grow and evolve bisTrack.”

PSI is pleased to have Brookside Lumber as a bisTrack customer and looks forward to a long and successful business partnership.

Testimonials

  • "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 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

  • "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

  • "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

  • "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