Field Materials freed up so much time and made the whole purchasing process much faster. Everything runs so much smoother now.
Founded in 1964, Dallas-based Hargrove Electric Company has been raising the standard of excellence in commercial and industrial electrical services for more than five decades. Recognized as a top Texas electrical contractor for its exceptional customer service, Hargrove Electric also takes pride in its strong family culture, with multiple second-generation employees on the team. Guided by a commitment to operational excellence and family values, the company remains deeply dedicated to both its people and its clients.
As project volume and purchasing demands increased, Hargrove Electric needed a more efficient way to manage material procurement, one that aligned with its standards for reliability, accuracy, and efficiency.
It turned hours of work into just minutes.
Before Field Materials AI, Hargrove Electric’s purchasing was a highly manual process. Lisa Bates, their administrator, had to type every item description, quantity, and price line-by-line into Sage 100 Contractor to create a single PO.
Each PO could take up to a few hours of careful manual data entry. All this time Lisa spent on creating POs kept her away from other important tasks, such as invoicing and coordination with project managers.
As the company grew and had to handle a larger volume of projects simultaneously, the manual purchasing process became a bottleneck that slowed operations down and drove up overhead costs.
The best thing about Field Materials is how much time it’s saved us.
After adopting FM construction purchase order software, Hargrove Electric transformed how POs are created. Instead of manually entering every line item, Lisa now simply drags and drops vendor quote documents into Field Materials AI. The system auto selects the right extraction agent and reads all line items into a purchase order from the uploaded supplier quote. Moreover, the AI learns over time to automatically cost code the items in the PO. No more manual data entry for Lisa - just spot checking. What used to take hours now takes a few minutes.
The system also reads delivery slips submitted by the field team. The AI automatically matches the delivery slips to the POs and automaticlaly selects and checks the received line items.
By removing the most time-consuming part of procurement, Field Materials helps Lisa focus her time on other critical tasks like processing AP invoices.
It turned hours of work into just minutes.
Field Materials AI completely transformed the procurement practice for Hargrove Electric. Daily PO processing time was cut from hours to minutes, which helped prepare the company to handle more projects without increased overhead.
