In today’s challenging business environment with downward pressure on margins, skyrocketing
delivery costs, increasing product numbers and configurations, and aggressive competitors,
it’s more important than ever for millwork and building materials businesses to
find ways to increase productivity, reduce costs, eliminate waste and maximize the
service they provide their customers.
For more than 30 years, Computer Associates has helped our clients successfully
meet these challenges by applying advanced, industry-specific software concepts
and technology to their operations.
The Ponderosa™ Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software integrates business information—from
all areas of the enterprise—to help improve every facet of each job. From increased
efficiency in sales, order processing, quotations, and inventory control to automated
purchasing, production scheduling and manufacturing, Ponderosa can help you maximize
the efficiency of every aspect of your operations.
Ponderosa is continuously refined in conjunction with an advisory group of millwork
distribution clients, and incorporates industry best practices and practical software
processes that automate and optimize all business functions, and help our clients
make the most profitable business decisions.
A fully integrated ERP solution, Ponderosa helps you:
- Reduce costs
- Enhance productivity
- Automate business processes
- Improve margins
- Make profitable decisions
- Minimize errors
- Increase sales efficiency
- Maximize customer service
At Computer Associates, we tailor every Ponderosa implementation to your company’s
individual needs, and apply advanced innovations that don’t compromise the unique
sales, production, inventory, scheduling, dispatch and delivery, POS / e-commerce,
accounting and other business practices that give you a competitive edge.
Ponderosa customers are located throughout the United States and Canada. Products
distributed
include:
- Millwork Doors, Windows (One and Two-Step)
- Lumber, Remanufacturing/Processing
- Pressure Treated Manufacturers / Distributors
- Trusses and Structural Building Components
- Moulding / Trimwork Manufacturers/ Distributors
- Roofing and Siding
- Drywall
- Cabinet Manufacturers/ Distributors
- Stair Manufacturers / Distributors
- Contractor Yards / Pro Dealers
- General and Specialty Building Products
- Installed Products Sales (Replacement Windows, Doors, etc.)
In order to insure the highest level of management reporting, building material
software performance and on-going client profitability, CAI has developed a unique
concept within the building materials and millwork industries, which is our
‘Guarantee
Against Software Obsolescence’. Under this concept, research and development on
advanced computer software processes is ongoing and results in the periodic release
of new software functionality, which not only meets the current needs of our business
partners but sets the standard for building material software and millwork software
nationwide. And the best part is that there is no additional charge for the new
software.