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Commercial equipment service / refrigeration and kitchen systems· 50-150 staff

A field-service company running thousands of parts and a wall of job sites on memory and texts

InventorySingle source of truthOperations
At a glance

Built one platform that holds every part, customer, and active job in a single source of truth: a real warehouse inventory with bin locations and live stock levels, plus a dispatch board that shows every open job site and which technician is on it, with quotes, invoices, and follow-ups tied to the same record.

4 weeks
Time to delivery
~12 hours a week of office time, plus the truck rolls saved on parts that turned out not to be in stock
Time saved
6x in year one
ROI
under three months
Payback time
Project complexity6/10
~4,000 SKUs
Parts under one inventory
~12 hrs/wk
Office time recovered
phone + paper -> 1
Sources of truth
under 3 mo
Payback
The challenge

The company stocks about four thousand parts and runs more than fifteen job sites at once, and almost none of it lived in a system. Inventory was tracked as orders in and orders out, with no location for any part and no real stock level you could trust. A technician needing a fitting either walked the shelves or called someone who might know. The accounting tool the office already relied on had no inventory module that fit the way the warehouse actually worked, so the warehouse effectively ran on memory.

The front office was the other half of the problem. Calls came in, jobs got dispatched, and the record of all of it lived in the owner's phone, in texts, and on paper notes. Scheduling shifted constantly with urgent calls, quotes sat half finished, and invoices went out late, which slowed the cash coming back in. As the company grew past the point where a few key people could hold it all in their heads, missed calls and missed parts started turning into lost jobs.

What we did

We started where the team felt the most pain: the warehouse and the board. We put all four thousand parts into one inventory with bin locations and live stock counts, so anyone can see what is on hand and exactly where it sits before a truck leaves. The same platform holds every customer and every active job in one place, with a dispatch board that shows which sites are open and who is assigned to each.

Quotes, invoices, and follow-ups hang off the same record, so a job moves from call to dispatch to invoice without the details being retyped or lost in a phone. Intake is structured, so the same information is entered once at the right spot, and a status view shows where every job and every quote stands. We kept the build close to how the company already works rather than forcing it onto a generic tool, which is what had failed them before.

The outcome

The warehouse stopped guessing. Stock levels are live, parts have locations, and a technician knows whether a part is on the shelf before the truck rolls, which cut the wasted trips back for something that was never actually in stock. The office got back roughly twelve hours a week that used to go to chasing parts, rebuilding the schedule, and reconstructing what was promised on a job.

The scattered record collapsed into one. Calls, jobs, parts, quotes, and invoices now sit on a single platform instead of across a phone, a paper pad, and an accounting tool, and invoices go out on time instead of days later. The same crew runs the same wall of job sites with far less of the daily scramble, and a new hire can see how the work flows in days rather than weeks.

The job was never the hard part. The hard part was knowing what we had on the shelf, where it was, and which jobs were actually open. All of that lived in someone's head or someone's phone.
Operations director, regional equipment-service company
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