Case Study: Chic Lumber achieves new efficiencies and management insights with ECi Spruce

Spruce Brings New Efficiencies Management Insights

Chic Lumber, an O’Fallon, Missouri-based building materials dealer, was struggling with an outdated business system that caused major inefficiencies: weekend-long physical inventories, a month of data entry afterward, slow customer statement processing, and mountains of paper records. The company also needed a new platform after its long-time software provider announced it would no longer support the old program.

ECi Spruce provided Chic Lumber with Spruce software, a Windows-based business system that streamlined point-of-sale operations and was easy to train staff on. The results were dramatic: inventory is now cycle-counted throughout the year with handheld scanners, monthly statements that once took four people two full days now take one person four hours, inventory turns improved into the thirties, and the company freed up about 1,000 sq. ft. of storage space by going paperless.

Chic Lumber

Adam Hendrix

Chic Lumber