Progressive Solutions closes fiscal year with record sales

Author: VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada
Date: Jun 11 2008

Progressive Solutions closes fiscal year with record sales

LBM Dealers continue to see advantages in converting to bisTrack™

Progressive Solutions Inc., of Richmond, BC, Canada announces today that the company posted record sales for its fiscal year ending March 31st.

Len Williams, President & CEO, comments, “Despite market slowdowns in the building materials and wood products industries, we continue to see interest in our software products because it satisfies two major concerns our customers have: how to gain a competitive edge and how to maximize their return on investment into the future.

“Our bisTrack™ software helps dealers and distributors remain competitive in tough times, by giving them data with which to make insightful decisions, trim costs, operate more efficiently, and improve margins. No other software package has the range of modern analytical and corrective capabilities that bisTrack does,” said Williams. “And bisTrack is best-in-class software on a platform with a tremendous amount of head-room for future enhancement.

“lumberTrack™ continues strong growth in the all wood products industry sectors: hardwood, softwood lumber and panel products. With over 20% of the nation’s hardwood, 30% of softwood and 50% of OSB being processed using lumberTrack, it is clearly the industry’s most preferred solution in the marketplace today.”

“Progressive Solutions spends considerably more on advancing and enhancing its software than any other software vendor in the industry. Companies with the foresight to plan and budget for a software upgrade during the downturn have turned to us as the platform on which their operations will grow and prosper when the market turns around,” he continues.

Highlights of Progressive Solutions’ annual performance:

  • Continued profitable growth.

     

  • Committed in maintaining high percentage of revenue allocated to Product Development
  • Increasing number of large customers including:
    • Ridgeons Timber and Builders Merchants — 500 users
    • Hancock Lumber, Manning Building Supplies and Viking — all ProSales 100 pro-dealers
  • Strengthened team with highly experienced implementers, trainers and project managers
  • Honored as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 4th consecutive year

Testimonials

  • "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

  • "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

  • "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