BPI partnered with Sioux Falls Kitchen and Bath, a supplier of custom cabinets and millwork, to offer exclusive 2-panel doors for their builders of multifamily housing projects. These doors, known as Lucy Line Doors and exclusive to BPI, provide a high-quality yet cost-effective solution that enhanced both timelines and profitability for Sioux Falls Kitchen and Bath and their contractors.
Lucy Line Doors are pre-finished, wrapped in protective packaging, labeled by jobsite unit and floor, and shipped directly to jobsites, saving time and reducing manual labor for all parties involved.
The Partnership Between Sioux Falls Kitchen & Bath and BPI
Long-term Collaboration for Custom Millwork Solutions
BPI has been a longtime partner and building material supplier to Sioux Falls Kitchen and Bath. They have collaborated in the past on solutions to provide quality materials at a competitive cost and quick turnaround time for builders of multifamily units and tract homes.
Recently, BPI’s sales reps found an avenue to get these exclusive doors pre-finished in a style that better served the builders by providing them with custom interior doors at a lower price, helping them increase profitability without compromising on quality.
Meeting the Demands of the Multifamily Builder and Tract Homes Market
The exclusive Lucy Line Doors are only available in BPI’s territory and are used primarily in apartment buildings and production homes. The balance of price and quality the Lucy Line Doors provide became a major selling point for Sioux Falls Kitchen and Bath to its builders.
In fact, these 2-panel doors are a time- and cost-saving option for all builders. They come pre-finished and pre-hung, significantly reducing the amount of work required by contractors. The doors also come individually shrink-wrapped, which offers extra protection during transit and on-site, making them highly attractive to builders.
With a streamlined packaging and delivery process, BPI provides job-packed deliveries directly to construction sites, organized and labeled by unit and floor. This helped Sioux Falls Kitchen and Bath by reducing inventory handling and speeding up turn-around to multi-family builders.
Their builders saved time since products were delivered directly to the correct floor and unit, which reduced the need for their staff to transport material to the unit, speeding up production on the jobsite and saving them money on the build.
BPI’s Lucy Line Doors allowed Sioux Falls Kitchen and Bath to offer builders something better than the usual flush panel door without increasing the price, providing them a significant increase in gross margins. Plus, the efficiency in packaging and job-site delivery helped Sioux Falls Kitchen and Bath turn the inventory around quickly and ensure satisfied builders.
What Makes These BPI Exclusive Doors Unique?
Cost-Effectiveness Without Sacrificing Quality | Pre-finished White Doors That Save Time for Contractors
The Lucy Line pre-finished exclusive 2-paneled doors arrive ready to install, eliminating the contractor’s painting time and improving production efficiency. BPI’s faster assembly process translates to time and cost savings and allows lumberyards to get product to their customers quickly. These prefinished doors also eliminate the expense of added materials and labor for contractors.
How BPI’s Approach Improves Profit Margins for all Dealers and Builders
While Sioux Falls Kitchen and Bath was the first to use these doors, BPI is now expanding the offering to other lumberyards, giving them access to these products.
NOTE: BPI can supply lumberyards with these exclusive doors in dozens of styles and colors, from factory-finish white to any custom color.
BPI provides specialized services that reduce costs for both the lumberyard and their builders, such as:
Enhanced Packaging and Delivery Efficiency
For interior doors, a header and footer system are used, while exterior doors employ full sandwich wrapping for enhanced stability and maximum protection during delivery.
BPI’s superior door packaging system includes custom-designed pallets with a base and a 90-degree backing, which securely holds the doors in place during shipping. These unique pallets offer greater stability and easier handling. Robotic wrapping, another key step in BPI’s packaging system, ensures tight and secure packaging that significantly limits any transit-related damage, resulting instead in a 99% damage-free rate.
BPI’s enhanced packaging system allows for efficient unloading and placement of the doors at the jobsite, making it simple to lift them to higher floors using telehandlers. This process eliminates having to carry them manually, thus reducing labor costs, potential injuries, and damage during handling.
Multifamily and Local Deliveries
The palletized system is especially beneficial for multifamily housing and apartment projects, streamlining logistics for large-scale builds. It is also employed for in-town deliveries to local millwork customers, demonstrating its adaptability for different scales of operations.
Time Management on Jobsites
Builders save time and resources with BPI’s palletized system, as deliveries are quicker (approximately 1.5–2 hours instead of half a day with metal racks). Unloading time at the jobsite is significantly reduced, freeing up telehandlers for other tasks and allowing builders to keep from hiring extra labor or using trim work carpenters (and halting production) to move materials to the floors and units. BPI coordinates with builders to stagger truck deliveries to ensure smoother operations, especially for large-scale projects involving hundreds of doors.
BPI’s labeling options save builders time and reduce errors by including detailed specifications for each door, such as unit numbers and floor designations, improving on-site organization and efficiency during installation.
Deliveries can be tailored to include trims, hardware, and other components based on customer preferences, and packaged together in Job Packs, ensuring organized and efficient delivery. The doors are matched in advance with trim suppliers for the door jams, doorstops, and casings to further streamline the process, saving builders a significant amount of installation time.
Pre-Hung Doors and Assembly Reducing On-Site Labor
BPI delivers the doors fully assembled — pre-hung on the frame, painted, with the hardware already added prior to delivery, ready to install upon arrival to the jobsite.
Lumberyard and Builder Satisfaction
Builders have expressed appreciation for the time and labor savings, as well as for the reduced complexity of handling the doors on-site. By adopting this packaging and delivery system, builders benefit from lower labor costs, fewer injuries, and reduced transit-related damage. Dealers also save on time and resources, as the new approach facilitates direct delivery to jobsites or organized storage at lumberyards.
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Purchasing BPI’s exclusive Lucy Line Doors through BPI significantly improved profit margins on multifamily builds for Sioux Falls Kitchen and Bath. Today, other dealers can reap the same benefits through the following cost and labor-saving points:
- Competitive Price Point
- Availability of Product
- Doors Shrink-Wrapped for Protection During Transit and on Jobsite
- Doors pre-hung by BPI – Ready for Install with Appropriate Trim
- Delivery Straight to Jobsite for Improved Receiving Time and Accuracy
- Packaged Together by Site, Floor and Unit in Job Packs for Easier Logistics on Jobsite
Why Working with BPI is a Smart Choice for Most Dealers
BPI works with lumberyards and specialty dealers to supply products that help them and their builders and contractors increase profitability without compromising on quality. With six locations throughout Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, the Omaha metro area, and Wisconsin, product availability is rarely an issue. Building material dealers can use our tailored solutions as a perfect way to stay competitive.
BPI’s knowledgeable reps know that keeping your top builders and contractors happy is key to a good business model and ensures repeat business for you. Count on us to work closely with you to build competitive pricing models that will improve your profit margins and provide an excellent experience to your builders. Contact BPI today and improve your lumberyard’s profitability.
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