For lumber and building materials

Thin margins don’t leave room for surprises.

For lumber yards and building material dealers, one yard to twenty. Works from the exports you already run from BisTrack, Spruce, Agility, QuickBooks or Excel.

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Stacks of dimensional lumber stored in a lumber yard

Found in the first weeks at a stone wholesaler

Founding Partner, natural and engineered stone, several states.

Every morning, around 7 AM

Every yard, every account, every morning.

  1. Commodity swings that reached your cost but not your pricing

    Framing lumber, OSB, plywood or treated margin running below its own normal for weeks, and whether cost, price or mix moved.

  2. Contractor accounts slipping past terms

    The job accounts that now pay later than they always have, and which balances to call on first.

  3. One yard out of line with the rest

    With four or more yards, the one whose margin, labor or small-order share moved away from the others.

Landscape supply too: with two seasons of history, the brief tells you what the coming season took last year.

From: DataMine AI <[email protected]> · 6:58 AM

Good morning, Northfork Lumber & Supply

Yesterday's revenue

$118,340

▲ 2.4% vs the same day last week

3 things worth your attention

6 pts slipping

OSB and panel margin has run under its normal for a month

$41,200 at risk

Four contractor accounts are paying slower

Yard 3 out of line

Small-order deliveries are twice the other yards' share

If you do one thing today

Fix the panel price sheet. Every quote that goes out today at last month’s price absorbs the 8% increase.

Checked 8 automines.

Illustrative numbers.

And when you want to know something

Ask it the way you’d ask your yard manager.

  • → Which deliveries, routes or small orders cost more to deliver than they made?
  • → Show me the yards side by side on sales, margin and collections.
  • → Where is shrink showing up after the cycle counts?
  • → Which job accounts are over their credit limit, and by how much?
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Show me the yards side by side for last week.

DataMine

Four yards, last week. Yard 1 led on sales and collections. Yard 3 sold less, held margin, and sent a truck out for 22 tickets under $300.

Yard 1

Sales$412K

Margin23.1%

Past terms$38K

Under $3009

Yard 2

Sales$296K

Margin21.4%

Past terms$61K

Under $30011

Past terms up $19K

Yard 3

Sales$188K

Margin24.0%

Past terms$22K

Under $30022

Twice the small-order share

Yard 4

Sales$241K

Margin22.6%

Past terms$29K

Under $30010

From your BisTrack sales, A/R aging and delivery ticket exports.

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