typical gross margin
approx.
← Distribution hub
🟦 PHCP / plumbing-HVAC distributors
AI order intake for
AI order intake for
PHCP distributors.
Plumbing, HVAC, and PVF wholesalers running Eclipse or P21, with healthy gross margins eaten by manual back-office labor. Free up your counter and inside-sales team to sell.
01The problem, in your words
01
Contractor orders by phone and fax — "the usual, plus…"
02
Will-call and counter chaos pulls staff off the desk.
03
~22–28% GM, but labor erodes it order by order.
04
Seasonal peaks overwhelm a fixed team.
02The wedge: AI order intake for PHCP
Read it. Validate it.
Land it clean.
We read PHCP orders the way contractors send them, validate against Eclipse/P21, and land them clean — so your counter and inside-sales people sell instead of type. Timed to deploy in a slow season on annualized volumes.
Watch it work, step by step →~22–28%
45 sec
per order vs ~15 min
Conexiom
up to 80%
faster processing
Conexiom
~30 days
to live
benchmark
ASA and IMARK Plumbing (640+ members) anchor the PHCP channel. (Order-automation ROI figures are vendor-reported.)Vendor/industry-reported where noted. We replace these with your own audited before/after on engagement #1.
03No translation layer
We speak your systems
out of the box.
Built around how you actually run — not how software vendors wish you did. We adapt to your system of record; we don't ask you to rip and replace it.
Epicor EclipseEpicor Prophet 21Infor SX.eDDI System
Where we reach you: ASA · IMARK Plumbing · phcppros
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Case study · structured for when it's real
[Named phcp distributor]
Situation → the wedge → before/after (cost-per-order, touchless rate, hours freed) → owner quote. Names withheld by default; references on request. Populated after engagement #1's audited baseline.
See your number.
Two minutes to a bottom-up estimate. Then we verify it on a real sample and tie our fee to hitting it. No fit, no fee.