Case Study: Windsor Plywood saves tens of thousands through automation with ECI Software Solutions

How this lumber and home building material franchise saved tens of thousands of dollars through automation

Windsor Plywood, a lumber and home building materials franchise in Winnipeg, Canada, needed to replace a 30-plus-year-old system that was unreliable, hard for younger employees to use, and required too much manual work. The company also struggled with manual vendor price changes, time-consuming training, and inefficient product transfers between stores.

ECI Software Solutions’ Spruce platform was chosen for its reliability, ease of use, reporting, and automation features. With Spruce, Windsor Plywood can schedule price changes in advance, generate instant reports, streamline inventory and transfers, and speed up onboarding—saving tens of thousands of dollars in lost gross margin, about $2,000 per month by catching low-profit sales, and an estimated 20–40 hours per new hire, while also reducing staff time by roughly two weeks on stock transfers.

Windsor Plywood

Ben Vickery

Owner/Operator