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Product proliferation, tightening margins, shifting product supplies and increasing big box presence in the pro market are causing challenges for LBM dealers. In addition, dramatic changes to the LBM dealer’s customer base are taking place. Large builders own an increasing portion of the pie, while many small and mid-sized builders are finding it more difficult to grow. At the same time the remodel market is hot, but those customers are often small, and require a different level of service.
Software alone is not the answer
Activant provides technology, training, and consulting that allows LBM dealers to “change enable” their business, a key ingredient of future success.
At the core is a thorough review of current business processes. Many dealers find that their processes have remained unchanged, despite growth to the business and a changing business environment. Activant will document those processes, and recommend changes based on industry best practice models.
Activant then works with dealers to smoothly implement the newest technologies that enable streamlined operations, as well as allow dealers to offer new services that meet customer needs now, and into the future.
Activant dealers offer new services for their customers
New Activant LBM customers find that their partnership with Activant has allowed them to offer new services to their customers in order to meet their evolving needs. They also find that Activant is able to help them streamline their operations, resulting in reduced costs.
By enabling online account access, computerized delivery and dispatch management, GPS vehicle tracking, paperless document management, advanced special order tracking as well as a host of tools designed to meet the needs of large production builders, Activant customers are able to set their business apart from their competition.
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Dennis Company "Activant Eagle for Windows gives us a wealth of information. By managing our information better, we’re able to make better decisions that contribute to our bottom line."
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