How you can save on delivery costs G

lN THIS issue the tables are being Iturned and you will be asked to answer the questions, but onlY privately and for your own benefit.

During the week of Oct. 9, the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association is holding its annual convention at The Pointe in Phoenix, Az. We will be sPeaking during the meeting on delivery practices in support of our soon-to-bepublished (by the NLBMDA) manual Management SurveYs The Black Hole of Delivery. Containing the details of studies on reducing delivery costs, it was commissioned earlier in the year by the association's Transportation and Materials Handling Committee.

There are three parts to the studY. Each is depictive of a different sales volume classification. The classes are less than $2,000,000, between $2,000,000 and $5,000,000 and over $5,000,U)0 in total annual sales.

A Delivery Practices Questionnaire will be circulated to those in attendance at the seminar. The answers and their meanings will be explained as part of the workshop.

The questionnaire is shown below for your use. Cut it out, reproduce it or put your answers in the spaces pro-

Correction: the chort rcloting to controct delivery in the September issue should have listed drive hours qt 39,0U miles instead of 15,a00 miles-ed.

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Check your company's delivery habits test creates indiYidual delivery profile expert will help you to analyze the meaning.

vided. There are no right or wrong answers-just your answers. So be candid with yourself and your company.

In next month's issue we will begin to answer the questions and iderftify their meaning so that each of you may get an over-view of Your own delivery practices.

Simpson Building SupplyGompany

Santa Clara Digtribution 500 MathewStrcet Santa Clara, CA 95050 408-727-3222

Darridson Plytvood & LumberGompany

22673 S. Wlmington Avenue Carson. CA 90745 213-549-3600

Kaibab Industries 2444 South 2oth Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85009 602-840-5555

Simpson Building Supply Gompany

Delivery Practices Questionnaire

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(f) Does your firm periodi- ! cally identify the profitability of its delivered sales?

(2) Take 6090 of your total n sales last year and divide it by the number of delivery trucks you operate. If the result is under $1,000,000 check "No," if over $1,000,000 check "Yes."

(3) Do your yard people tr generally work 8 hours or less per day most of the time?

(4) Do you have personal ! knowledge of a written list of responsibilities and duties set up for whoever does the dispatching in your company to follow?

(5) Do you use or know of a n load management system used by your company to insure effective load building, routing and dispatching? (Please lftkhnd Disilributbn Center 12249 NE 124th Kirkland, WA 98033 206-622-0320

AlDisdero Lumber Company

1504 SE Woodward Street Portland, OR97242 503-239-8888

Independent Lumber& Supply Inc. 21l0Johnson Street Missoula, MT 59806 406-543-8338

Pllofilemtood

Facbry Repreentathres: Ostermann &Scheirue, US.A,lnc.

8801 Fortuna Way Orangevale, CA95662

Attn: Tom Arsenault 91 6-989-0995

Anderson Sales & Marketing 3366 Cheuy Chase Eugene, OR 97401 Attn:Hogie Anderson 503-484-7090

Don Riel&Associates

5886 Simms Arvada, CO 80004 Attn: Don Riel 303-421-0289