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Racking, Conveyor & Material Handling Procurement Control

Control high-volume rental, lift, forklift, tool, and jobsite logistics across warehouses, distribution centers, and installation crews.

The Customer

This vertical includes two major operator types with the same underlying execution problem: distributed teams need equipment fast, but leadership needs control over rental cost, supplier selection, utilization, and project visibility. 

1

Large Warehousing
& Distribution Operators

One example is a Fortune 500 distribution company running hundreds of warehouse and logistics centers across the U.S.

Typical annual rental spend: $5M–$6M

Use cases include:

  • Warehouse equipment overflow
  • Backup lifts when assets fail
  • Seasonal volume surges
  • Rapid deployments across regional DCs
  • Short-notice rental needs across many facilities 
2

National Racking
& Conveyor Installation
Contractors

Companies in the $150M–$200M range performing:

  • Large distribution center buildouts
  • Conveyor system installations
  • High-bay racking builds
  • Sortation equipment installs
  • Complex material-handling deployments

Typical annual rental spend: $3M–$5M

These projects rely on:

  • Booms
  • Telehandlers
  • Scissor lifts
  • Welding equipment
  • Tools and jobsite power
  • Forklifts & material movers
  • Long-duration rental and asset assignments
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Their Challenges

Despite being different types of companies, they share the same underlying problem: 


High-volume, multi-site equipment needs create cost leakage when ordering is decentralized, supplier decisions vary by crew, and long-duration rentals are not actively controlled.

 

1. Fragmented Ordering Across Locations & Crews

Whether it was:

  • Hundreds of warehouse locations ordering independently, or
  • Multiple installation crews working across different logistics centers

…the result was the same:

  • No unified process
  • No visibility across sites
  • No spend control
  • No consistent supplier usage
  • No accurate tracking of what was on rent, where, why, and for how long

Large warehouse operators had hundreds of independent ordering points.

Installation contractors had crews spread across many long-duration projects.

Both lacked a central control layer for what was rented, which supplier served it, how long it stayed out, and what it actually cost. 

2. Long-Duration Assets Without Control

On conveyor and racking jobs, assets might sit on rent for:

  • 30 days
  • 60 days
  • 6 months
  • Longer

Equipment drifted.
Call-offs were inconsistent.
Owned tools and welders were not tracked consistently. 
Idle rentals and assets sat unnoticed until invoices came in.

3. Administrative Overload

For warehousing operators:

  • AP spent hours reconciling scattered POs
  • Costs varied by location
  • Leadership had no consolidated reporting

For installation contractors:

  • PMs managed equipment manually
  • Dispatch coordination took hours
  • Suppliers were not standardized
  • Field teams spent time on admin instead of installation 
SiteStack reduced that burden by standardizing the workflow from request through supplier selection, dispatch, call-off, and invoice review.

4. No Logistics Coordination Layer

Conveyor installers needed:

  • Clear visibility into asset location
  • Coordination of rentals across phased installs
  • Crew scheduling tied to equipment availability
  • Standardized workflows across field teams

Warehouse operators needed:

  • One system when overflow equipment was needed
  • Visibility into what was ordered and for how long
  • Controls that field locations would actually follow

Neither group had a controlled workflow connecting jobsites, suppliers, equipment, crews, and finance.

The SiteStack Solution

Despite being different business models, both customer profiles adopted SiteStack for the same reason:

To bring supplier selection, rental lifecycle, jobsite logistics, and financial visibility under one controlled process.

 

✓ One Ordering Platform Across Every Site

Whether the company had:

  • 10 racking installations in progress
  • 100 warehouses
  • 300 ordering points

SiteStack became the controlled workflow for:

  • All equipment requests
  • All approvals
  • All rentals
  • All jobsite needs
  • All vendor interactions
  • All pickup and call-off activity

This replaced fragmented ordering with a repeatable process.

✓ Standardized Supplier Selection

SiteStack automatically ranked vendors based on cost, distance, availability, hauling, and performance. It helped:

  • Prevented branch-level overcharging
  • Apply consistent supplier logic across sites
  • Enforce national rate structures
  • Reduce habit-based ordering

Warehouse managers stopped defaulting to whoever they used last time. Conveyor crews stopped guessing which supplier to use at each logistics hub.

 

✓ Visibility Across All Jobsites and Warehouses

Leadership could finally see:

  • What was on rent
  • Where it was
  • How long it had been there
  • Supplier performance
  • Spend by site, region, or project
  • Idle equipment exposure
  • Forecasting versus actuals
  • What needed pickup, call-off, or follow-up 

A single operating view of rental activity and cost exposure.

✓ Reduced Admin Time for PMs, Warehouse Managers, and Finance

Customers consistently reported:

  • Fewer calls
  • Fewer emails
  • Cleaner invoices
  • Faster dispute resolution
  • Less AP workload
  • Smoother internal coordination

A cleaner workflow from request through invoice instead of dozens of disconnected touchpoints.

 

The Impact

Across spend ranges of $3M–$6M annually, SiteStack help deliver:

➡ 15–20% Cost Reduction

Driven by:

  • Reducing equipment drift
  • Standardizing suppliers
  • Preventing unnecessary rental days
  • Reducing non-compliant orders
  • Reducing hauling/mobilization waste
  • Improving real-time visibility into rental activity

➡ Unified Process Across All Operations

From warehouse operations to conveyor installation crews, the organization operated from one consistent procurement execution workflow.

➡ Improved Execution Across Long-Duration Jobs

SiteStack helped keep rentals and assets aligned with project phases instead of being forgotten in the corner of a massive distribution center.

Ready to control rental and jobsite logistics across warehouses, racking projects, and conveyor installations?