Hancock Lumber selects bisTrack for their 9 locations

Author: VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada
Date: Jan 30 2008

Hancock Lumber selects bisTrack for their 9 locations

Progressive Solutions Inc., is very pleased to announce that Hancock Lumber, of Casco, Maine has ordered bisTrack™ for their lumber and building materials businesses. The initial order also includes scanTrack™, Progressive Solutions’ integrated document management system, and webTrack™, the company’s online customer portal and store.

The bisTrack system will be implemented in Hancock Lumber’s nine locations across Maine, and serve a total of 175 users. As part of the total supply chain management solution, Progressive Solutions will implement interfaces to EDI, Andersen iQ®, 20-20 Kitchen & Bath Design®, and Professional Estimating.

As a sixth generation family business that began doing business in 1848, Hancock Lumber is one of America’s oldest and most distinguished family-owned businesses. Hancock Lumber’s retail locations provide homeowners and contractors a wide range of products – from framing lumber to house wrap, roofing to doors and windows, interior millwork to custom kitchens. Hancock Lumber’s Commercial Sales group partners with commercial, industrial and large volume residential construction clients in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

“Hancock Lumber typifies the innovative, large scale customer we’re attracting today, and we look forward to helping them grow their business with bisTrack,” says Randy Faris, Progressive Solutions’ bisTrack Sales Manager. “AerTracks momentum builds and we continue to add to our growing list of first rate customers, we’re told there’s a lot more buzz in the industry about bisTrack.”

Testimonials

  • "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 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’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

  • "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