Case Study: TimberTown Building Centre achieves cost savings and productivity gains with ECi Spruce

Spruce Lumberyard and Building Material Software Brings Costs Savings and Productivity Gains

TimberTown Building Centre, a Calgary-based LBM business with 140 employees across five locations in Alberta and British Columbia, needed a better way to run operations after years of frustration with Epicor Dimensions. The old system was difficult to use, worked in batch mode instead of real time, made purchasing and price changes labor-intensive, and required duplicate data entry because it did not integrate well with other programs.

TimberTown switched to ECi Spruce’s cloud-based lumberyard and building material software in August 2016. The implementation went smoothly, and the company quickly saw benefits including easier invoicing and statements, thousands of dollars in monthly savings on stationery and postage, better inventory management, improved gross margin control, and reduced server maintenance. According to TimberTown, ECi Spruce also delivered major time savings and strong customer support.

TimberTown Building Centre

Steve Hull

Chief Financial Officer