IT and cybersecurity for Construction Suppliers
You are held to Soft / EDI trading-partner terms – and, like most firms your size, you are expected to meet it without anyone in-house whose job it is to own it. We run the IT and the security program so the obligation is actually covered, not just acknowledged.
Where we usually start: ERP outage stops pricing, picking, shipping and invoicing.
If this sounds familiar
“If the ERP goes down, we can’t price, we can’t pick, we can’t ship, and we can’t invoice. Everything stops at once.”
Unlike a contractor who loses a jobsite’s productivity, a distributor loses every department simultaneously – the counter, the warehouse, dispatch and AR all sit on the same system, and the outage is measured in orders not shipped.
“A bad price file or a broken EDI feed costs us margin on every line we sell until somebody notices.”
Pricing and product data flow in from dozens of manufacturers. A silent integration failure does not announce itself; it quietly sells inventory at the wrong price for a week.
“My warehouse Wi-Fi drops in half the building, so my pickers fall back to paper and the errors start.”
Coverage across metal racking, high bays and an outside yard is a genuine engineering problem that most generalist IT providers underestimate, and it degrades fill rate and inventory accuracy directly.
Who this is for
Typical size: 20–250 (sweet spot 30–120), revenue $10M–$150M. If that is roughly you, the rest of this page will land.
What working with us looks like
A named team that knows your stack, monitoring and patching that happens whether or not anyone chases it, and a written security program kept current – with the evidence to back it up when a client, an auditor or an insurer asks. We report to the Owner / GM (VP Operations in larger distributors; Controller co-signs), not to a ticket queue.
Talk to us
Call 206-850-1496 or email mhasse@itwerx.net and we will set up a short call – no audit, no pitch deck, just a conversation about what you have and what is worrying you.