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The Lumber Yard Re-Aligning Operations
As part of a new XL program, The Lumber Yard, a building materials supplier operating in five mid-Atlantic states, is creating five strategically placed “super yards” that will offer faster guaranteed deliveries to its existing service area. Additionally, the company will retain four of its other existing sales and service centers, with each of the nine locations featuring a Design Center developed for contractors and homeowners.
By the end of the year, the company will concentrate its people, equipment and inventory into the five XL super yards in Whitehall, Downingtown and York, Pa.; Hagerstown, Md., and Winchester, Va., as well as the four sales and service centers in Carlisle and Gettysburg, Pa.; Eldersburg and Bel Air, Md.
Each XL location will offer 60 percent more inventory and 50 percent more delivery equipment than the company’s existing locations. Service will be enhanced with double the staff size and expanded hours of operation.
“XL reshapes our operations very deliberately to offer greater speed and selection to builders and remodelers,” says Len Kopec, CEO of the Wolf Organization, parent company of The Lumber Yard. “At the same time, it streamlines our operations and leverages our key strengths: customer service and logistics. It’s a win-win approach, and we’re confident that XL will provide the platform for future growth.”
The XL concept has been piloted for the past three years at the Lumber Yard’s York location, which also houses its flagship “Design Center” showroom. The overwhelming success at that location led the company to recreate this model across its entire service area, executives note. The company reports it will spend more than $2.5 million developing the new Design Center locations.
The Lumber Yard supplies products from Andersen, Masonite, Therma-Tru, United Window and Velux. Its operations include door pre-hanging and other millwork production, as well as installed sales.
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