Contractors lose 15–30% of material value to over-purchasing, waste, and theft every year. RunBlu is the material control layer that tells you what you have, where it is, and who it's for — across every yard, truck, and job site.
Built for electrical, mechanical, plumbing & general contractors — $5M to $50M
The Problem
The external problem is obvious — material goes missing, gets double-ordered, sits unused on closed jobs. But the real cost isn't the material. It's the distrust. When nobody believes the inventory count, every decision becomes a hedge. Purchasing pads orders. PMs stockpile. The yard becomes a graveyard of “just in case.”
$400K+
Average annual material waste for a $15M contractor — money that walks off the job, sits in the wrong yard, or gets bought twice.
15–30%
Of total material value lost to over-purchasing, theft, double-handling, and reconciliation gaps industry-wide.
$1.3T
Annual construction material spend in the US alone. Even a 5% improvement in control represents massive margin recovery.
We've Been There
We didn't adapt warehouse software and paint it for construction. We built this from the yard up — because we've been the ones standing at the tailgate wondering where the hell that second pallet went. Every feature exists because we lived the problem first.
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Material states tracked from PO to reconciliation
100%
Audit trail — every state change is an immutable event on the ledger
13x+
Potential first-year ROI through waste elimination and margin recovery
The Plan
20 minutes with our team. We'll use a real scenario from your trade — not a slide deck. You'll see exactly how RunBlu handles your materials.
Your categories, your yards, your workflows. RunBlu is set up around how your team actually works — not the other way around. We train your people and go live together.
One ledger. Every material. Real-time. No more guessing, no more over-ordering, no more year-end surprises. Your purchasing, PMs, and field crews all see the same truth.
Without Material Control
Purchasing over-orders because they don't trust the counts
PMs hoard material — "just in case" becomes the default
Year-end physical counts reveal six-figure discrepancies
Emergency purchases at premium pricing eat your margin
You can't tell what was installed vs. what was wasted
With RunBlu
One source of truth — purchasing, PMs, and field all see the same data
Every material has a state, a location, and an owner
Transfers are logged — nothing moves without a trail
Recover $400K–$700K in working capital in year one
Budget to actual, matched down to the material line item
Wire reels tracked by footage remaining. Conduit by stick count. Panels, switchgear, devices, fittings — thousands of SKUs per job, all accounted for.
Ductwork, pipe, fittings, and equipment from fab shop to rooftop. Custom fabrications tracked from shop drawing to installation.
Copper, PVC, cast iron — pipe, valves, fixtures, and rough-in kits. High volume, repetitive materials where over-ordering compounds fast.
One dashboard, every trade. See every subcontractor's material flow on the project without chasing spreadsheets.
A material control layer is a system that sits between procurement, field operations, and financial systems to provide real-time visibility into material state across the full lifecycle — from purchase order to installation to reconciliation. Unlike ERPs or inventory apps, it tracks the physical material itself, not just the transaction.
ERPs track dollars and transactions. Inventory apps track what's on a shelf. RunBlu tracks the material itself through six enforced states: Ordered, Received, Stored, Allocated, Installed, and Reconciled. Every state change is an immutable event. When RunBlu says you have 200 feet of conduit in Bay 4, it means someone put it there, nobody has moved it, and it's not allocated to another job.
RunBlu is built for specialty trade contractors including electrical, mechanical/HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, and civil contractors, as well as general contractors who need visibility across all subcontractor material flows. It's designed for contractors in the $5M to $50M revenue range.
RunBlu is implemented in four sprints over 17 to 24 weeks: Foundation, Receiving, Allocation, and Readiness. We configure the system around your workflows, train your people, and go live together. It's not a plug-and-play app — it's a controlled rollout designed around how your team actually works.
Contractors typically recover $400K to $700K in working capital in year one through reduced over-purchasing, waste elimination, and improved reconciliation. The average contractor over-purchases 10-20% of material due to unreliable inventory data. Eliminating that alone often delivers 13x+ ROI.
Yes. RunBlu is the material control layer — Procore is the project management layer. They're complementary systems. RunBlu integrates with Procore as well as accounting systems like QuickBooks and Sage.
20 minutes. A real scenario from your trade. No slides. No pressure. Just the system — and whether it solves the problem you already know you have.