Greater Profits for Everyone!

For Their Customers:

Lowering Your Total Procurement Costs

When you take into consideration all the costs of distribution and handling inventory, working with a NAWLA distributor becomes the most cost-effective approach:

• Purchase Price
• Interest Cost
• Paperwork
• Storage Costs
• Shopping Time
• Expediting
• Taxes/Insurance
• Errors
• Shrinkage/Obsolescence
• Internal Handling
• Transportation

Just-in-Time Delivery

NAWLA members offer Just-in-Time delivery of readily available products in quantities ranging from multiple rail cars to the bundle or even the piece. This makes running lean and profitably a reality for even the most demanding customers. Faster inventory turns lower buying costs and free up cash for investment in profitable activities.

Providing Market Information

NAWLA members are in constant touch with market activities, trends and prices, both in the marketplace and the mills.

One-Stop Shopping

The one-stop shopping and back-to-back bulk buying advantages the wholesale distributor provides allow for a broader selection of products and species, including hard-to-find specialty items. Mixed shipments are available, as well as special packaging, remanufacturing, pattern work, pressure and dip-treating and custom kiln drying and more. NAWLA members are innovators! Many NAWLA distributors offer product training and engineering services which both help you sell your products faster.

Acting as a Buffer

The NAWLA distributor acts as a buffer when claims and disputes arise, resulting in a much faster settlement in many cases. They will most often absorb the cost of those small nuisance claims and immediately deliver replacement stock from a strategically located distribution yard or reload operation.

NAWLA distributors strive to build your business with lower procurement costs, timely deliveries and personal service.

For Their Suppliers:

Improving Cash Flow

Working with fewer, more reliable accounts means you will reduce the risk associated with financing receivables, while collecting on them sooner. And you will reduce credit department operating expenses. Sharing the costs of inventory and distribution provides opportunities to control overhead and capital investment.

Knowing the Market

NAWLA distributors act as a buffer against short-term market volatility. Their awareness of influential economic trends and factors, both inside and out of the industry, allows for consistent purchasing throughout the range of market demand.

Marketing Your Products

Your products move quickly and consistently with NAWLA distributors. Our member's distribution yards and reload centers maintain inventories close to markets for immediate customer demand and faster turns. Sales and service costs can be minimized which can easily escalate when you deal directly with the retail or industrial buying market. NAWLA members do more than just sell a manufacturer's product, they represent it.

In addition, wholesaler-processors remanufacture and customize your products, providing unique finished goods in the controlled quantities that retailers and industrial accounts prefer. Office wholesalers move large quantities of lumber, consolidating retail and industrial orders, and place consistent back-to-back purchases of firm-order business. Also, NAWLA members are eager to create special promotional programs, highlighting the benefits of your products, to help everyone sell your products faster.

NAWLA wholesalers want to invest in a long-term relationship with their manufacturing partners through improved cash flow, reduced operating and sales costs and personalized service.

NAWLA
North American Wholesale Lumber Association
3601 Algonquin Road, Suite 400, Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008
Telephone: 847-870-7470 Toll Free: 800-527-8258 Fax: 847-870-0201
E-mail: info@nawla.org