B&D Industries cut material ordering time by 75% and eliminated paper-based purchasing chaos with Remarcable.
How B&D Industries Transformed Material Procurement from Days to Minutes with Remarcable
Paper forms. PDF attachments. Emails lost in someone’s inbox. For a company running complex projects across Albuquerque, that was the reality of procurement at B&D Industries. Every material request meant extra steps. Every quote meant days of waiting. And every delay meant the job site paid the price.
Then B&D found Remarcable.
Before Remarcable, B&D’s field teams had limited options. Material requests lived on paper or in email, bouncing between inboxes with no visibility and no structure. Purchasing spent hours chasing down requests, translating handwritten notes full of shorthand and slang terms, and manually coordinating with suppliers.
Michael Sadler, Pre-Construction Manager at B&D Industries, saw the drag on every project. The process added layers of extra time on the material ordering side. For a team managing multiple jobsites with overlapping schedules and tight lead times, every hour lost to manual procurement was an hour stolen from production.
Chris Romley, a Project Engineer at B&D, lived the problem every day. Field crews would hand him material lists written in shorthand. He’d have to decode what they needed, reach out to purchasing, wait for vendor quotes, and hope nothing fell through the cracks. Two to three days to get a quote back. In construction, that kind of lag can stall a crew.
When B&D adopted Remarcable, the difference was immediate.
For the field, the new process is simple. Fill out a material request in Remarcable. Hit send. Done. That is all the field needs to do. No paper. No decoding. No waiting for someone to check their email.
On the purchasing side, the speed is just as dramatic. Orders process with the click of a button. What used to take days now takes a quarter of the time. Same day quotes replaced the two to three day turnaround B&D had come to expect.
And when it comes to issuing purchase orders with the purchasing group, Sadler calls the process almost instantaneous. He submits a request. B&D’s purchasing team returns vendor quotes, pricing, and lead times. Lead times are critical for his projects, and getting material to the job site on schedule is now something the team can actually manage with confidence.
Speed was only part of the equation. B&D also gained something they never had before: real time visibility into every material order.
Romley and his team use Remarcable’s comments feature constantly. They check in with vendors or purchasing for status updates, flag changes, and keep everyone aligned without a single phone call or follow up email. If something shifts, the whole team sees it.
Sadler put it plainly: Remarcable has made it very easy to keep track of where material is at any given time. No more guessing. No more chasing. Just clarity from request to delivery.
B&D had used other systems before. None of them fit. The tools they had didn’t offer the applications they needed. They were built for a general audience, not for the daily realities of electrical and mechanical contracting.
Remarcable was different. In Romley’s words, the platform is tailored to what they needed to do. It speaks the language of the job site. It puts everything the team needs at their fingertips. And it works the way they already think about procurement, just faster and with more control.
B&D Industries didn’t just upgrade their software. They upgraded how their entire team operates.
Ordering time cut by 75%. What used to take hours takes minutes. Material requests flow from the field to purchasing to suppliers without friction.
Same day quotes. No more two to three day wait for supplier pricing. B&D’s purchasing team moves in real time alongside their vendors.
Complete material visibility. Every order, every status update, every lead time, tracked and accessible from anywhere.
A team that is more organized, more productive, and ready for what’s next. In Sadler’s words: “Remarcable has definitely helped increase our productivity. We’re more organized. More up to date. And into this century.”
B&D Industries is a leading mechanical contractor based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They use Remarcable to manage procurement and materials across their portfolio of projects.
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About B&D Industries
B&D Industries is a family-owned electrical, mechanical, and plumbing contractor headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1955 as B&D Electric Company, they started out wiring houses in the southeast heights of Albuquerque. Nearly 70 years later, they've grown into one of New Mexico's largest employers of electrical tradesmen and one of the Southwest's premier contractors, with annual revenues exceeding $70 million.
B&D performs work across a wide range of industries and facility types, including hospitals, schools, data centers, semiconductor manufacturing facilities, petrochemical plants, and correctional facilities. They hold active classified contracts at Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and they were the electrical contractor for the first large-scale commercial nuclear fuel enrichment plant in the United States.
The company maintains DOE and NNSA facility clearances and holds 75 personnel security clearances, allowing them to work on some of the most sensitive and complex projects in the country. B&D is a member of NECA, the Associated General Contractors of America, the Electric Roundtable, and the Design-Build Institute of America.
About Remarcable
Remarcable is a cloud-based procurement and materials management platform built specifically for electrical and mechanical contractors. The platform replaces paper forms, email chains, and manual data entry with a streamlined digital workflow that connects field crews, purchasing teams, and suppliers.
With Remarcable, field crews submit material requests directly from the jobsite. Purchasing teams review requests, compare supplier pricing, and issue POs—all in one system. Every order is tracked in real time, tied to the right project, and visible to everyone who needs it.
Remarcable helps contractors get quotes faster, reduce ordering errors, lock in pricing during volatile markets, and eliminate hours of back-office work every week.
