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How 1st Choice Cabinetry Saved over $400,000
Posted in: Customer Case Studies, Testimonials by admin on May 27, 2009 | No Comments
The Situation
The owners of 1st Choice Cabinetry are an anomaly in the cabinet industry. Each has significant prior experience managing large businesses with thousands of employees. They knew from their prior business experiences that growing profit margins and increasing efficiency would be the key to them growing the business to the size they wanted. They ran into challenges because people spent too much time filling out, filing and searching for paperwork and the paperwork contained errors that drove costs that weren’t being reflected in the company’s current job cost calculations. They needed a solution to “pull it all together”.
The Results
Total hard dollar savings in 2008 was over $400,000.
- Added 1.5% in gross margin
- Gained labor savings of $180,000
- Removed unanticipated swings in profit due to pricing errors
How Southern Cabinet Company Saved $250,000
Posted in: Customer Case Studies, Testimonials by admin on May 1, 2009 | No Comments
The Situation
Jim Freeze (Owner), Brian Freeze (VP Sales) and Steve Foster (VP and Director of Operations) were frustrated with Southern Cabinet Company. Operations were getting so off track that they had to turn away business. They simply had no time. Three main issues faced the company: they had limited capacity for future growth, they felt very disorganized and they were not making enough profit.
The Results
After implementing CompanionCabinet, Southern Cabinet Company was able to:
- Increase sales from $7,000,000 to over $13,000,000.
- Increase their average net profit margin to over 7.5%
- Save $250,000 on materials
How Markraft Cabinets Added $1M in Cash Flow
Posted in: Customer Case Studies, Testimonials by admin on April 17, 2008 | No Comments
The Situation
MarKraft Cabinets paper-based system stagnated their sales process, led to poor customer service due to a lack of timely access to information, and eroded profit margins. Their falling margins were a direct result of errors and inefficiencies in the quoting, ordering and delivery processes. They were having a difficult time controlling what the sales reps were quoting across multiple locations and the reps often quoted jobs well below what they should have or mistakenly priced jobs based on an outdated catalog.
The Results
After implementing CompanionCabinet, Markraft Cabinets was able to:
- Cut job completion time in almost half (from 45 to 25 days).
- Add over $1,000,000 in net cash flow
- Gain a full additional 2 points of profit
How Best Cabinets Improved Cash Flow
Posted in: Customer Case Studies, Testimonials by admin on February 3, 2008 | No Comments
The Situation
Steve Spencer, Best Cabinets’ owner, had aggressive growth goals and was troubled by lack of visibility into the businesses’ operations. All the information he needed to manage the business was buried in paper job folders. The salespeople’s closing rates were very low. This was very troublesome because the salespeople spent a considerable amount of time hand calculating quotes for prospects who didn’t buy. He also needed a better understanding of why the jobs he delivered never seemed to generate the profits he expected.
The Results
Best Cabinets improved many aspects of their operation:
- Enabled employees to quickly research customer inquiries
- Allowed management to accurately track job costs
- Streamlined their process all the way through accounting resulting in more predicable cash flow
How Wood Palace Kitchens Regained 33% of the Day
Posted in: Customer Case Studies, Testimonials by admin on February 2, 2008 | No Comments
The Situation
Tim Hollick, the owner of Wood Palace Kitchens, desired to grow the business but their current paper process required multiple quality assurance checks and held back their growth. Tim believed that Wood Palace had the opportunity to exceed its revenue plateau, but he didn’t have the tools that were required to do so. They also felt they were losing money in other areas too because they had no easy way of getting a “bird’s eye view” of the business. The current paper system made getting reports time consuming and expensive.
The Results
After implementing CompanionCabinet, Wood Palace Kitchens was able to:
- Regain 33% of their salesperson’s day to make new sales and service customers
- Re-price a job in minutes instead of hours
- Cut out hours of paperwork per job
Software That Improves Your Margins
Posted in: Quotes, Testimonials by admin on October 3, 2007 | No Comments
”The reason I chose to invest in CompanionCabinet was to ensure that as we continue to grow, we will have the controls in place to ensure consistancy within my sales force, control over margins, and reporting that allows for the type of analysis we need. By reducing errors and having tight control over mark ups we had already seen an improvement in gross profit margins.”
-David Trachten, Owner, Viking Kitchens
Software That Grows Your Business
Posted in: Quotes, Testimonials by admin on April 3, 2006 | No Comments
”The reason I chose to invest in CompanionCabinet is that I wanted the capacity to grow significantly more volume with the comfort of knowing my software system will be able to scale with my growth.”
-Bryce Maryfield, Owner, Arrowwood Cabinetry
Software that Puts You Ahead of the Competition
Posted in: Quotes, Testimonials by admin on February 3, 2006 | No Comments
“I am very optimistic about the way CompanionCabinet will benefit our design centers. In fact, I had such a great experience at the Columbus location that I can hardly wait to share this with the Dayton Design Center in two weeks! This technology has placed us light years ahead of our competition. We are definitely headed in the right direction!”
-Annette Rousos, Design Center Manager, Modern Builders Supply
Software That Makes Life Simpler
Posted in: Quotes, Testimonials by admin on June 3, 2005 | No Comments
”We eliminated the need for a sales coordinator because of CompanionCabinet. Things are simpler – it is a night and day difference from before. We use to crunch numbers, now we manage the profitability of our jobs.”
-Scott Fuller, Sales, Markraft Cabinets
Software That Doesn’t Lock You In
Posted in: Quotes, Testimonials by admin on August 3, 2004 | No Comments
”CompanionCabinet Software works closely with manufacturers and currently has the only open solution which allows manufacturers and dealers to share data directly with no middleman.”
-Intuit