About Us
Facilities
We feature a 55,000 square foot service center in Houston, Texas. This facility is home to our administrative and inside sales staff along with various manufacturers products that we inventory. Our warehouse features wire and cable cutting equipment along with sereral forklifts and a 10 ton overhead crane for material handling.
Offices
In addition to our Houston Service Center we have sales offices in Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin/San Antonio. HSW focuses on conducting specification work at the electrical engineering and end user level.
Quotation Management
Our quotation management system tracks the exact status of every outstanding quotation with current feedback. At any given moment we are tracking millions of dollars of outstanding opportunities. This information is extremely important and we manage, monitor, and report the information carefully.
Electrical Industry Tracking and Forecasting
Hodges Southwest tracks and forecasts Texas electrical industry sales in conjunction with the highly specialized electrical industry information service DISC, which is widely recognized as the electrical industry leader in market analysis and forecasting. This specialized service provides current information by county in Texas on what electrical distributors are selling. We have customized this service by market area to allow us to set realistic targets with our manufacturer partners and monitor our performance.
Highly Efficient Communications
We have installed on every computer a virtual assistant which is an internal communications system that allows efficient movement of information from person to person. The telephones and computers are fully integrated. Each sales person is equipped with a Smartphone in order to provide quick and complete communications. We have the latest quotation montoring software and Laserfiche scanning technology which allows us to process quotes, orders and shipping information electronically providing our sales force important real time information.
NEMRA Member
Hodges Southwest is a NEMRA member serving the Electrical and Communications markets throughout Texas.
Netcom One
Hodges Southwest is a member of Netcom One a group of geographically non-competitive top NEMRA members who meet for three working days twice a year to sharpen our skills and best practices while learning from one another and top industry leaders. Members represent a variety of manufacturers and geographic territories which allows for open discussion and brainstorming on how to better relate through similar, but non-competing market conditions.
The Hodges Hotwire
Our periodic email communciation, The Hodges Hotwire enhances our customer's awareness of our manufacturers' product offerings. The Hodges Hotwire is emailed to over 1500 electrical distributors and contractor subscribers throughout Texas. The Hodges Hotwire is a key tool that we use to keep our customer base continually aware of new products, featured products, ever changing market conditions and upcoming events.
