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How Inventory Control Saves Construction Teams Resources

Construction Business Owner

How Inventory Control Saves Construction Teams Resources. Practicing inventory control helps your construction team save time & money while keeping you organized. All sorts of businesses rely on inventory to provide goods and services to their customers, but when it comes to construction, supplies and materials are truly essential.

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Marketing To Home Improvement Retailers: Line Reviews

Construction Marketing

This is the final entry in a three-part blog series on marketing to home improvement retailers. Part one gave an overview of the retail home improvement category and shared the results of a survey on retail marketing practices. Part two covered home improvement retail merchandising and packaging. Following are examples.

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Supply Chain Challenges in 2023 & How to Overcome Them

Construction Marketing

Online businesses now have better opportunities thanks to the change to online retailing, consumer confidence, and savings. The situation in 2023 The companies went through the 2022 challenges by selling through inventory and focusing on the working capital. They faced stock shortages, backroads, and delays.

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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions in the Construction Industry

Construction Business Owner

The strength of a construction supply chain heavily depends on other industries — manufacturing, distribution and even retail-commerce — that siphon critical products to contractors and developers. Such software can track inventory in real time for you, so you’ll always know what materials you have on hand and when it’s time to order more.).

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What’s With the Lumber Price Disconnect?

Pro Builder

This dynamic is primarily due to dealers’ inventory carrying costs and potentially large differences between the price at which inventory is bought and sold. . To maintain margins, retailers and wholesalers do their best to buy low and sell high. In economics jargon, prices paid by builders—or “street” prices—were “sticky.”

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GE Capital Survey Predicts Construction Equipment Sales Increase in 2013

Construction Equipment

Retail sales of construction equipment are expected to increase by at least 3 percent in 2013, according to a survey conducted by GE Capital, Equipment Finance. More than three-quarters of respondents believe the first half of 2013 is the best time to increase inventory of construction equipment. February 8, 2013. read more

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Sunbelt Cities Topping the Charts in Real Estate Growth Over the Past Half Century

Construction Marketing

Between 1980 and 2023, the national inventory increased by 91%, to a total of 2.1 On the other hand, retail construction, which thrived in the 1990s and early 2000s, has seen a substantial decline in the current decade. billion square feet, as Americans began accumulating more possessions and needing space to store them.

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