Watsco to Host Investor & Analyst Meeting Focused on Technology and Innovation
Long-term goals of Watsco’s strategy:
- Enhance profitability and margins while generating increasing levels of cash flow.
- Operate the most innovative suite of technologies available in the industry.
- Create the industry’s deepest repository of information concerning customers, markets and products.
- Accelerate sales growth and grow market share for supplier partners.
- Extend Watsco’s reach into new geographies and additional sales channels.
Since 2012,
Watsco’s leadership will discuss the strategic vision and opportunities that are being designed and implemented:
Mobile Apps, E-Commerce and Product Information
- Enable customer engagement, technical assistance and sales using any mobile device 24/7/365.
- Build the largest source of digitized HVAC product information (current data-enriched catalog includes over 300,000 SKUs with a goal of over 1 million).
- Launch and iterate new functionality to drive adoption and use.
Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
- Provide intuitive data and analytics for better decision making to Watsco’s 700 P&L managers and an expanding number of other internal users (user group currently over 1,600).
- Enhance customer service provided by a salesforce of over 1,000.
- Tailor sales efforts from a better understanding of purchasing behaviors.
Supply Chain Optimization
- Increase fill-rates to reduce missed sales.
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Improve inventory turns (targeted inventory decrease of 20% or
$150 million ). -
Reduce infrastructure costs (a current annual spend of approximately
$160 million ), including a 10% decrease in the 13 million square feet presently under lease. - Leverage long-term sales growth against a lower cost structure and expand margins.
Enhance the Customer Experience
- Create an omni-channel shopping experience across online, mobile devices and in-store.
- Revolutionize the fulfillment process to provide customers hours of additional productivity.
- Achieve greater efficiency for the 7+ million annual transactions with over 200,000 discrete purchasers.
- Establish model stores to test and improve the process improvements outlined above, including enhanced product merchandising, inventory optimization, space planning and mobile-enabled order fulfillment.
A question and answer session will also be held to provide further insight into the presentation. An audio webcast and presentation slides will be available on our website, http://www.watsco.com.
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Watsco’s traditional sales channel is the sale of products from one of
its 567 locations in
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Watsco, Inc.
Barry S. Logan, 305-714-4102
Senior Vice President
blogan@watsco.com