Joe Keller: RCS Millwork

February 16, 2023

Joe Keller: RCS Millwork

“I realized maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to be my own boss. I went and bought into RCS with my dad and now we’ve got about 86 employees. And so, we do commercial millwork all over the United States. Sort of primarily focused here in the Midwest, in very specific markets but we’ll follow our favorite customers just about anywhere that they want to go.”

– Joe Keller

Welcome to a brand-new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today, your host Steve Larosiliere is joined by Joe Keller, the president of RCS Millwork.

Joe’s dad founded RCS Millwork as a family business. As things improved, his father grew the business from 3 employees to 60. After finishing college, Joe worked for a general contractor until he realized that being his own boss wasn’t all that horrible. He thus moved in and joined the family business alongside his father, and the two of them managed to grow it from 60 to 85 employees. They currently carry out commercial millwork across the country. It is sort of mainly concentrated in the Midwest, in very certain markets. However, they will generally follow their favorite clients wherever they go.

In this episode, Joe talks about their key projects, how they work well with general contractors, and how they use INNERGY, a new ERP system, to keep everything organized.

Listen now and get the whole story!

“I can have my other office; we can be looking at the exact same thing. I can have multiple estimators in one single bid at the same but it also opens up the employment pool.

My labor pool on the office side anyway has become national. I can do a search for;

“I’m looking for a new project manager.”

I can find the best project manager and they can live in another country. It really wouldn’t matter. Because we’re working on the same system.”

– Joe Keller

Photo Credit: https://www.rcsmillwork.com/

ERP system for managing business’s function

Organizations that want to manage their business operations inside a centralized and integrated system employ ERP. Joe was cognizant of the need for INNERGY, which enabled him to see where his costs are, what they intend to spend, where their money is going, and what their next step in running their business was. Organizations that need to manage their employees, clients, and inventory can all benefit from ERP.

Customers of INNERGY can make quick decisions thanks to real-time data access. But in order to help you and your team create a coordinated set of activities that are both more strategic and profitable, INNERGY also provides education. For more information on INNERGY or to book a demo please check out https://woodpreneur.com/innergy

“I knew we needed INNERGY. It didn’t exist as soon as I started working, I’m going to say on the office side of the millwork business. Coming from working at a general contractor where I’m managing a bunch of subcontractors, I’m managing a workforce in the field and they’ve got great systems built out to do that,

where I can see where my costs are?

what am I going to spend?

where are those dollars going?

what’s coming up?”

– Joe Keller

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Website: https://www.rcsmillwork.com/