TailWind Helps TopBuild Upgrade Connectivity & Support 300+ Locations
Industry
Manufacturing
Challenge
TopBuild Corporation, a leading insulation and building materials installer/distributor, had grown dissatisfied with its primary connectivity provider. The company struggled to manage operations across 300+ locations, and needed to consolidate carriers, modernize outdated infrastructure, and establish reliable on-site support across its branch network.
Results
TailWind deployed field technicians to all 300+ locations, completing a comprehensive network overhaul in six months, freeing up resources equivalent to one full-time employee while consolidating carrier management and billing into a single provider relationship.
300+
Locations Supported
1
FTE Equivalent Saved
95%
Circuits Managed
“Thanks to TailWind, my team is able to wipe our hands of day-to-day monitoring of circuits. They’ve freed up valuable time.”
Adam Smith
Senior Manager of Branch Operations, TopBuild
The Challenge
TopBuild Corporation needed to transform its connectivity operations across its branch locations, but faced significant obstacles in executing the transition during the pandemic.
- Dissatisfaction with provider: TopBuild's existing provider lacked the service quality and on-site support capabilities needed to manage operations at scale.
- Complex carrier management: Hundreds of different circuits across multiple carriers created an antiquated network that was difficult to monitor.
- Network modernization at scale: The company needed to replace outdated networks at all 300+ locations while maintaining business continuity.
The Action
TailWind sent their knowledgeable, highly trained field technicians to all 300+ branch locations to replace equipment as needed and improve the quality of TopBuild’s overall network. The TailWind project management team served as TopBuild's eyes and hands on the ground, enabling the company's staff to complete the massive network overhaul on an almost completely remote basis in only six months.
Adam Smith, TopBuild’s Senior Manager of Branch Operations, said, “Without our own service branch, we wouldn’t have been successful in the amount of time TailWind was able to execute that project.”
The Results
With TailWind's help, TopBuild streamlined its on-site support and added managed services for all 300+ locations, eliminating operational burdens and freeing up valuable internal resources. TailWind now:
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Serves as TopBuild’s single field technician provider and visits all branch locations.
- Manages 95% of TopBuild’s broadband circuits on the carrier side.
- Aggregates TopBuild’s connectivity, so the company now pays only one bill.
The partnership also freed up enough time to save TopBuild the equivalent of one FTE (full-time employee) salary while still meeting time-strenuous deadlines.
