Case Study: Dick-N-Sons Lumber achieves major productivity and efficiency gains with ECI Software Solutions' Spruce LBM

Spruce takes productivity and efficiency to whole new levels

Dick-N-Sons Lumber, a growing LBM dealer in Blue Grass, Iowa, found that their legacy Epicor Eagle system could not support their expanding lumber operations and forced hours of manual sales data entry into a separate accounting program. To address these challenges they switched to Spruce LBM software from ECI Software Solutions for an integrated, industry-tailored platform.

ECI Software Solutions implemented the cloud-based Spruce solution to unify estimates, orders, invoicing, dispatch and accounting, eliminating redundant data entry and taking over maintenance, backups and upgrades. The change delivered measurable gains — sales data now flows seamlessly, truck drivers use Spruce tablets for proof-of-delivery, executives access real-time order status from anywhere, quarterly and year-end reports that once took weeks are completed in a day, and Dick-N-Sons reports “100% better insight on our inventory and margins,” boosting overall productivity and efficiency.

Dick-N-Sons Lumber

Lola VanDeWalle

Vice President