Southland Industries
Southland Industries was founded in 1949 as a Long Beach-based supplier of residential heating solutions to the Southern California market. Southland has expanded its services exponentially through the years; and is today one of the nation’s largest mechanical contractors providing full design, construction, fabrication, service and maintenance for HVAC, process piping, plumbing, fire protection, controls and automation. Southland strives to provide solutions to its customers’ needs in order to improve their profitability, their environment and the lives of their building occupants.
Before using Compete Consulting Group (CCG), Southland spent an average of $3,500 a week on its overnight shipping between its eight offices, approximately $180,000 in annual expenditures. Throughout its offices, Southland used both UPS and FedEx for domestic and international shipments and Ontrac for its regional shipping inside the states of California, Arizona and Nevada. Southland needed CCG’s assistance not only with rate savings, but also to consolidate its 8 offices to one national shipping carrier.
CCG is saving Southland 42%, in excess of $76,000 a year on its overnight shipping. With CCG, Southland spends an average of $2,000 a week, approximately $104,000 annually. CCG set up corporate accounts in which all locations were linked to the same discounts and assisted in consolidating Southlands’ eight offices to using the shipping carriers of their choice: FedEx and Golden State Overnight (a regional carrier similar to Ontrac and Overnite Express).
Southland Industries - Chuck Allen - Chief Operating Officer
"Southland Industries has enjoyed a great working relationship with Compete Consulting Group. Your team was able to follow through with everything that they had promised in the first meeting. They were able to present the pricing proposals and implement the new FedEx agreement and local overnight agreement within a couple weeks. Not only did they substantially reduce our shipping costs, they also assisted with the switch over to FedEx and Golden State Overnight service throughout our other offices. Our rep has been very easy to get a hold of and answers any questions promptly. If your company is shipping, I would strongly recommend using their services."
