Porteous Fasteners
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The Porteous Fasteners company (PFC) is well established for its brand and products as well as their company, founded in downtown Los Angeles around mid 1960s, now the company is exporting their goods to Japan, Taiwan and China. The company has 6 regional distribution centers and 9 branches up to date.
We notice the double digits grows in their products sales after making a trip to China. The main component in the steel making, iron ore has increased the price from $60 a tonne in 2009 to $110 a tonne in 2010. Look at the demand over supply, if you can’t find a product in PFC, there isn’t any chance to find it else where.
The main products are nuts, screws, bolts and others, all have become important commodities of trading, construction, hardware and manufacturing.
If you do a brief internet search, the company has been listed in
- 411.ca
- Thefind.com
- Streetinsider.com
- Canpages.ca
- Industrynet.com
- Yellowpagecity.com and 700+ other sites (the number is still counting)
Recent a case study conducted on Porteous Fasteners, how this company can simply the warehouse complex operation using Accello’s warehouse management system. The system has been implemented so flawlessly, integrating with the company’s existing ERP system.
Among the findings of the case study which is crucial to the success of the system implementations:
- Significant cut down of 15-20% in pick time
- A single shift to cater for Logistics operations at all locations
- A one point access to all warehouses in Company-wide inventory
- Reduce paper use in Logistics operations as almost everything is electronic storage
- All angles zoning Velocity-based of warehouses maintenance
- Integration between Accellos One Warehouse software with the existing ERP system
- Handheld computers and scanners to input and output of data automatically
Being the Master distributor of quality fasteners in both packaged and bulk quantities, The porteous fastener has over 30,000 items sold in 16 locations across US and Canada.
Among all the popular products are Anchor products, cap screws, brass fasteners,bolts, sockets,lock nuts,lock washers,construction screws,machine screws,metrics,nuts,PFC9 fasteners,washers,stainless steel,structural products,studs,tapping screws,threaded rod,wood screws and self drilling screws.
As a leading industry in fasteners and related products, the company has established its own A2LA accredited lab since 1980, was the first certified lab among the fastener industries. The main purpose is to ensure the supplier quality being audited and help to solve customer problem, servicing both vendors and customers.
Expansion to Asia, setup another PFC lab in Taiwan, servicing Asian factories. With the lab accreditation and certified ISO 9001, all the products shipped to US will have bearing the “PFC preferred” logo.
Strongly recommended for concrete restoration project, porteous fastener appear to be the top list of supplier in the anchoring system.
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