SAN DIEGO—HD Supply’s Facilities Maintenance business earned a ranking of 175 on this year’s InformationWeek 500—a list of the top 500 technology innovators in the United States. HD Supply has now been recognized on this list for the fifth consecutive year.
InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation’s most innovative users of information technology with its annual InformationWeek 500 listing, and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of some of the best-known organizations in the country.
Facilities Maintenance was recognized for the development of an innovative and strategic technology initiative designed to automate, personalize and simplify the property improvement process for customers. This new technology provides the team with a holistic view into the allocation of inventory for renovation and installations orders, the ability to dynamically adjust inventory levels based on customer demand to guarantee stock availability, as well as the ability to create property improvement quotes on an iPad.
“Our Facilities Maintenance team is constantly striving to identify new and innovative ways to better support our customers,” said Brian Monks, vice president of Information Technology. “I am proud of the new technology solutions we have developed to improve our quoting and inventory allocation processes for our customers’ unique property improvement project needs, ensuring we have the right products available at the right time for our customers.”
“The theme of this year’s InformationWeek 500 is digital business,” said InformationWeek editor in chief Rob Preston. “It’s a movement, rooted in data analytics, mobile computing, social networking and other customer-focused technologies that are turning companies and industries on their ear. Every enterprise is now a digital business—or needs to become one fast. The organizations in our ranking are leading the way.”
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