Smart Buying

In fleet-based services, it’s not just about getting a lower price point.

Doing so might help your bottom line in the short term, but long-term solutions require a better strategy. You need a supplier that understands your production processes and has the applications, supply chain and expertise to help you shorten fleet repair and production schedules.

Go much farther

We provide supply-chain value beyond price.

Our supply-chain and applications expertise help you implement a well-informed procurement strategy and a structured buying agreement that offer more than SKU management and pricing. We can help you:

• Identify and implement ways to conserve to reduce overall spend
• Better manage inventories to minimize costs and lower complexity
• Reduce gas consumption and cylinder balances for less waste

For us, it’s not just about supplying you with what you need, but helping you use it more efficiently. From turnaround planning to production, we can help you improve your processes, shorten repair times and manufacture new fleet components faster. We can also assist you with regulatory compliance, emissions monitoring and reducing your environmental impact.

It’s all part of our analytical, creative approach to your supply chain.

Be resourceful

We’re committed to adding more value to your supply chain. More simplicity. More transparency. And more standardization.

As one of the nation's leading single-source suppliers of all things gases, welding and safety, we can also help improve your organization on many levels, including:

Managing multiple suppliers distracts you from core tasks, complicates your supply chain and leads to fragmentation. Acting as a single point of accountability, we help simplify and standardize your operation by providing:

Where other suppliers limit their recommendations to proprietary offerings, we provide unbiased opinions on an unrivaled range of products and services. Whether you have welding stations or automated systems, we offer objective recommendations based on years of expertise in the following:

Find the right products and the right solutions—at the right time

An unrivaled national network of more than 1,100 locations, expert account managers, industry specialists, a dedicated telesales team and a robust eProcurement platform makes sure you’ll find the right gases, the right equipment and the right end-to-end supply-chain solution to maintain and grow your fleet.

Discover what’s missing from your smart buying strategy by going beyond product and price. Choose a procurement partner that can help you measure and monitor your business growth and savings, and make a difference in the future of your company.