Warehouses and Manufacturing
Find the warehouses and plants that are expanding or short on maintenance help.
LASSO finds warehouses, distribution centers, cold storage and manufacturers near your reps, and scores each one on size, expansion, maintenance hiring and who runs it.
Sample screen. Names and numbers are made up.
- From $89 a month per selling repOne non-selling manager free per five reps
- Any phone or computerRuns in the browser, installs to the home screen
- Your own LASSO addressYour brand, your words, your dropdowns
- Set up by our teamUsers, roles and your company setup
Who decides
The people you need to reach at warehouses and manufacturing.
Ask for them in this order. LASSO keeps each one as a contact on the account, with notes and the next step.
- 1
Plant or maintenance manager
The maintenance manager cares about uptime, safety and keeping equipment and docks working through every shift. Ask at the front office or shipping desk for them by title, and visit outside shift changes.
- 2
Operations or facilities manager
At distribution centers, the operations or facilities manager handles the building, the roof, the lighting and the dock doors. They're often out on the floor, so leave a card and a QR leave-behind with the front office.
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Owner
At smaller manufacturers and cold storage companies, the owner often still signs the contracts. A short, specific visit about one problem you can fix usually gets further than a general pitch.
What LASSO finds
The reasons a building is worth a stop.
Warehouses often have few Google reviews, so size, expansion and hiring carry more of the score. Every reason is labeled measured or a sign.
- measuredSquare feet. From the listing, the company's website, or county records once they're loaded for your states, with 100,000 sq ft or more counted as large.
- measuredExpansion. An expansion, addition or new building mentioned on the listing, website or a recent review.
- measuredMaintenance hiring. A maintenance technician posting found by the weekly job watch near your area.
- measuredSeveral sites. One company behind several buildings in your search, matched by a shared website.
- a signPosting matched by name. A maintenance job posting matched to the company by name during a full check counts only as a sign.
- marked downRetailer's distribution center. A warehouse tied to a big-box or grocery chain on the brand list is marked down because its maintenance is often set by the corporate office.
Working these buildings
How reps get from the front desk to a proposal.
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Go through the front office
Warehouses and plants control who comes on site, and walking onto the dock is a fast way to get turned away. Ask the front office or shipping desk for the maintenance or facilities manager, and avoid shift changes.
- 2
Bring up hiring and expansion
A plant hiring maintenance technicians may be short-handed, and an expansion means new work is coming. Bring it up directly and ask how they're covering the gap.
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Leave something for the floor
Maintenance managers are usually out on the floor when you arrive. Leave a card and a QR leave-behind at the front office, and drop a come-back pin for the day they tell you to return.
Trades that sell here
LASSO for the trades that work in warehouses and manufacturing.
Why teams pick LASSO
Most field sales apps hand your rep a map. LASSO hands them a reason to stop.
Pins and routes are the easy part. The work is knowing which buildings to visit, what to say there, and what happens after the door.
You import a list or drop pins by hand.
LASSO finds the buildings near your reps and scores every one, with the reasons.
An address and a pin color.
Review complaints quoted with the date, plus size, operator and job postings, each marked measured or a sign.
Notes typed later, if anyone remembers.
One tap for the outcome. One voice note drafts the note, the deal, the follow-up and the next stop.
Stops in the order someone added them.
Ordered by distance from the rep, kept inside business hours, closing-soon stops first.
Calls around to find out who went where.
Team Live and day trails for reps who share, plus a weekly scoreboard.
Every industry at once.
Commercial trades that sell to buildings, built alongside a mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractor.
Questions
Selling to warehouses and manufacturing: what reps ask.
Something else? Ask us and a person replies.
How do you sell to warehouses and manufacturing plants?
Go through the front office and ask for the maintenance or facilities manager. Expansion, maintenance hiring and building size are the strongest reasons to ask, since warehouses often have few Google reviews.
Does LASSO cover cold storage and manufacturing?
Yes. The warehouse building type covers warehouses, distribution and logistics companies, cold storage, manufacturers and food processing, from Google listings anywhere in the US.
How does LASSO spot a plant that's hiring maintenance?
When a rep turns on the weekly job watch, LASSO searches near their area for maintenance job postings and adds new employers as prospects, which counts as measured. A posting matched by name during a full check counts only as a sign.
Why is a retailer's distribution center scored low?
Warehouses tied to a big-box or grocery chain on LASSO's brand list are marked down, because their maintenance is often set by the corporate office. They stay in the results in case you want to ask.
Does the scoring work for roofing contractors?
The building profile was built for building systems work, electrical included, and reads size, expansion, hiring and ownership. A profile tuned to roofing is in development; until it's ready, the finder uses the building profile and the field app works today.
Keep going
Other buildings, and the rest of LASSO.
Request a demo
See it with your area and your buildings.
Tell us where you sell and what you sell, and the walk-through uses buildings near you instead of a canned list. A person replies. No card, no contract to see it.
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- Buildings near you, scoredWith the reasons, measured or a sign
- A day on the stop listBusiness hours, door outcomes, voice notes
- What your managers seeTeam Live, day trails, the weekly scoreboard
- Pricing for your teamPer selling rep, from $89 a month