Revitalizing Lumberyard operations
Innovating workflow and modernizing operations for successful independent LBM and Home Center dealers.
Change that makes sense
"You're either growing or you're dying” – Forbes
Operations teams must be stunningly effective to successfully support growing lumber yards.
Implementation of highly efficient workflows and strong operational processes will ensure operational capacity well into the future.
"The best answers often come from outside of your current paradigm." - James Kerr
Perspective from an experienced outsider can breathe fresh life into organically growing operations teams.
Expert advice can deliver significant strategic advantages and produce surprising opportunities for change within an organization.
"The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions." - Steven Chu
Strategic focus on increased productivity using higher efficiencies, applied to the correct priorities, increases effectiveness and bottom line profits.
Why Choose David Wells Consulting
Experience
Collaboration
Experience
With over 35 years in leadership roles within the building materials industry, David has a superb repository of expertise and insights to overcome the challenges and opportunities faced by independent lumber dealers.
Innovation
Collaboration
Experience
Innately wired with an "out of the box" mentality, David's ability to envision opportunities and provide novel solutions, while firmly grounded to real-life adaptability, is highly advantageous to his clients.
Collaboration
Collaboration
Collaboration
David’s ability to translate high level, conceptual ideas into operationally valuable constructs and merge those with input from client teams allows him to assist in creating unique solutions for his customers.
Quality
Collaboration
Collaboration
With pride in attention to detail and a dedication to delivering solutions exceeding clients expectations, David receives strong customer satisfaction marks and earns multiple projects with many of them.
Available Solutions for Your Business
Executive, Manager, and Operator Level Education
Executive, Manager, and Operator Level Education
Executive, Manager, and Operator Level Education
The "What, Why, How, Who, and When" is crucial knowledge for every person in an organization, particularly when major changes are taking place.
The details and parameters of each answer varies by role and training is tailored to fit each group.
Strategic Planning
Executive, Manager, and Operator Level Education
Executive, Manager, and Operator Level Education
Company or operations level strategic plan facilitation is available and includes:
- Mission, Vision & Values
- Dominate Selling Idea
- 3 to 5 year strategic plan
- Annual objectives and goals
- Key Performance Indicators
- Right People/Right Seats
- Scoreboards
Inventory Analysis and Management Solutions
Executive, Manager, and Operator Level Education
Inventory Analysis and Management Solutions
Each workflow and facility design project begins with an inventory analysis and velocity map to assist in product placement.
Inventory control, process development, location mapping, and inventory management tools are available.
Lumberyard and Facility Design
Systems, Processes and Standard Operating Procedures
Inventory Analysis and Management Solutions
Greenfield, expansion, retrofit, and complete redesign projects are David's core focus.
Each project is designed around the primary business model, customer promise, operational priorities, and industry best practices.
Detailed Item Placement Map
Systems, Processes and Standard Operating Procedures
Systems, Processes and Standard Operating Procedures
New concepts and practices take time to become ingrained and that much harder while also reorganizing a facility.
To assist with the transition, each remodel includes detailed placement of all commodity lumber and panels plus all primary LBM items stored in the warehouse or yard.
Systems, Processes and Standard Operating Procedures
Systems, Processes and Standard Operating Procedures
Systems, Processes and Standard Operating Procedures
Companies cover more ground and do it better, faster, and more profitably when they are incredibly focused. Incredible focus requires detail.
Team guidance and facilitation or collaborative creation of these key elements is offered.
Testimonials
Trio Forest Products
David is a true wealth of knowledge. His extensive experience in the lumber industry and operations, combined with his dedication to uncovering blind spots, has been incredibly helpful. He takes a genuine interest in your business, listens attentively, and observes your entire team to understand how things work on a deeper level.
David brought immense value to our organization with his countless, actionable suggestions. He reorganized our yards, collaborated with the contractor on the design of a new building with racking, and designed the product placement for both the existing inventory and the new building layout.
His detailed inventory analysis will continue to bring significant value for years to come.
Beyond his expertise, David’s humility and joy for the work make him a pleasure to collaborate with. He takes great pride in ensuring that he delivers real, meaningful value. We are excited to continue working with him on future projects.
Tina South
President
Kansas Lumber Homestore
Working with David Wells has been a game changer for our lumberyard operations. His deep industry expertise and hands-on approach helped us completely rethink and restructure our yard and delivery strategy. Thanks to David’s insight, we didn’t just reorganize — we optimized.
David's ability to identify opportunities and tailor solutions to our exact needs was nothing short of remarkable. His recommendations will have a lasting impact on our bottom line, customer satisfaction, and team morale. I can say without hesitation that our yard runs better because of David’s involvement, and I would strongly recommend him to any operation looking to level up their logistics and yard strategy.
Kelly Glasscock
COO
Davis Hawn Lumber - Texas
With his decades of lumber experience, incredibly sharp mind and quick pace, David has a natural eye for lumber operations and yard layout. We are currently implementing his plans for a new layout of our yard, and I am excited to see the additional productivity gains and the vision to at least double our business in this same space.
We are also planning to hire him as a consultant to help train our young operations team and draft and implement Standard Operating Procedures for all the receiving, stocking, dispatch, and delivery processes.
In addition, I have known David personally from about eight years ago. I have found him to be a man of strong integrity and character.
Dave Reichert
President
Interstate Building Materials - Louisiana
There are likely many lumber yards that claim to have terrible property layouts and need new facilities, but I happen to believe that one of our branches was at the top of that list. We needed to begin replacing facilities but became paralyzed at the thought of how each phase would fit into a master plan.
David Wells gathered our data, visited our site, consulted our employees, and created a new vision for our yard. My favorite trait of David is his ability to connect high level, abstract disciplines to the ground level realities of operating a lumber yard. Observing David plan for and incorporate those realities into a master plan is what solidified our team’s confidence in him and his vision for our yard. We highly recommend David’s services.
Kyle Martinez
President
LBM - Network
Having known you for 20+ years and knowing you to be trustworthy, we selected you for the project and I am so glad we did. Your work at every stage was the most detailed and professionally done I have ever seen.
Jim Enter
Founder