Who is Clearbridge?
Clearbridge is a provider of software and electronic services to the construction, wholesale distribution, and manufacturing industries. The company was founded by a team with backgrounds in the construction software, wholesale distribution systems, and electronic transaction processing industries. Founded in 1999, the company is independent, privately-held, and profitable, with operations in Albuquerque, New Mexico and San Mateo, California.

What is Procurement Control Software?
By most estimates, 50% of an electrical contractor’s costs come from product procurement. This represents the single largest non-payroll expense and is perhaps the most difficult expense to effectively monitor and control. Procurements Control Software, such as TradeSync, puts in place an automated business process for the effective and cost-efficient management of procurement activities by establishing vendor contract pricing, ensuring all orders and invoices are priced correctly, seamlessly integrating electronic orders and invoices into accounting systems, and reporting on procurement activities. Procurement Control Software is both a tactical improvement to your workers’ job efficiency, and a strategic advantage for managers to run their businesses more profitably.

Where are the Savings?
The savings from TradeSync are found in three primary categories: (1) identifying pricing and quantity billed errors in orders and invoices, (2) reducing time and eliminating errors associated with manual A/P data entry work, and (3) enabling the more cost-effectively procurement of materials by providing business managers with detailed reports on procurement history and vendor contracts.

TradeSync delivers these savings while requiring minimal change to the way you do business today. Most notably, TradeSync does not require your field or office personnel to change their preferred method of ordering. TradeSync does not require contractors to write purchase orders electronically – as such, you can continue to order via phone/fax or whatever means you prefer without learning a new purchasing system or slowing down activities on the job site.

Why an On-Demand Application?
Over the past several years the “on-demand” software model (sometimes called software-as-a-service or SaaS) has come to dominate the software industry. Companies such as Salesforce.com, among others, have led this charge and the overwhelming positive response from customers continues. Why? In short, SaaS does a better job of aligning the interests of the customer with those of the software company.

How Do I Get Started?
First, we invite you to explore this website. There are explanations of the TradeSync solution, complete with screen shots and demos, and tools to better understand the business case for implementing TradeSync in your company.

Next, contact us by email or by phone at 1-800-548-6764. We can easily do a live one-on-one demonstration with you right over the web. Also, to help you get comfortable with TradeSync, we can set you up with a free test account to try it out and show TradeSync to other people in your company.