value creation for building service contractors

Value Creation forBuilding Service Contractors

On the following slides, we’ll share a story of how Unisource partnered with a large national service provider to design and implement a supplies program that is standardized, compliant, and value oriented.

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Over the years, Unisource has built an impressive list of local and national customers in the BSC field as well as in manufacturing, retail and logistics.

Some of these customers we even share at times.

Today we are going to explore some of the solutions that Unisource provides to a large international BSC servicing a variety of facility types.


Current Building Service Contractor Customers


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This organization was looking for a partner that could provide a

single source supplies program across North

America.

Unisource fit the bill with 48 locations in

the US and an additional 18 in

Canada.

This organization also needed a partner that could respond quickly with the products they needed, near at hand.

In addition to local inventories in our 66 DC’s, Unisource offers specialized start-up inventories in eight strategically located distribution centers to support large scale start-ups with next day or two-day service to most major markets through a hub and spoke network.

At the beginning of the program, Unisource successfully launched over 1000 customer locations on a single day.


Billings

Medford

Portland

Sparks

Kent

Phoenix

Tulsa

Lubbock

Carrollton

Anchorage

Fairbanks Tallahassee

Sioux Falls

Spokane

Denver

Albuquerque

Salt Lake City

FresnoLenexa

Fargo

Des Moines

Mobile

Rochester Hills

Southborough

Windsor

City of CommerceLa Palma

SacramentoOmaha

Jacksonville

Shreveport

Garner

Houston

Baton Rouge

Jessup

Farmington

Appleton

New Berlin

Wisconsin Rapids

Nashville

Philadelphia

Huntington

Louisville

Joliet

Addison

Indianapolis

Lansing

St. Louis

Morton

Little Rock

Memphis

Wichita

Austin

Columbus

Norfolk

Richmond

Columbia

Charlotte

Tampa

Miami

Las Vegas

El Centro

Independence

Pleasanton

BSC Start-Up Inventory Hubs

Unisource Distribution Centers

Brooklyn Park

Norcross / Atlanta

Orlando

Mechanicsburg

Hub & Spoke Network


This organization needed a partner that stocked the specific brands and products that are approved for use by their corporate leadership.

Sticking to the program and utilizing specific brands and items provides the client with additional financial incentives that exceed seven figures annually.

The previous supplier, a network of independent distributors, was unable to manage compliance to the corporate program.

Our strategic sourcing team was able to further improve the national program by introducing new suppliers to the organization.


Manufacturer Partners


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As a North American service provider, this organization needed systemic controls in place that limited spend in the field only to those key items.

Additionally, they needed easy online ordering and a budgeting function down to the ship to location.

All of these requirements are supported with our eBusiness platform, UnisourceLink.

UnisourceLink insures program compliance by showing only the corporate approved items in the catalog on our ordering platform.


UnisourceLink eBusiness Platform


Information feedback is critical to the success of the partnership.

The customer is able to pull reports on spend for the overall program, or location by location instantaneously on UnisourceLink.com or via subscriptions.

Reports are available by item, category, brand or location.

All of the data on every transaction is available at their fingertips, 24/7. Invoices and POD’s are available in real time, just a few keystrokes away.


UnisourceLink eBusiness Platform


Green Gauge Sustainability Tool

As is data about green products. Unisource’s Green Gauge report is also available at the local, regional and corporate level.

It gives an instant snapshot not only of how green you are, but how green you can become by identifying products that have a more sustainable alternative.


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www.UnisourceWorldwide.com

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