Who do you use for shop supplies and general hardware?

[DiscoDave]

I am helping a growing business to be more efficient.  As part of this, I am looking at a service to maintain our general hardware and supplies.  The shop needs a manager as the owner is too involved with the shop - and rightly so as he is highly respected in his arena.  That's another discussion.

As he moved into a larger facility and hired more people. I'm working on efficiencies.  The current goal is to have common hardware an supplies on hand, always.  I am looking for a service to handle this.  I have spoken with Rogo, Fastenal and Kimball Midwest.   Any other suggestions?  Runs to the hardware store are costly...

TIA,

Dave

[dfrisby]

So far, Lawson. They set me up with bins. The hardware is expensive, but still cheaper than running to the nearest hardware store 20 miles away.  Their sales guy quit stopping by, I think because of health reasons. But I just replenish online and refill my own bins as needed now.  

[Mike the Mechanic]

Kimball Midwest has been excellent.

We also us Wurth as an import shop they have Euro stuff.

 

Mike

[alfredauto]

I bought some bins and fill them myself from tractor supply. That's for the grade 5 hardware by the pound. Can't help you with companies that do it they all frustrated us with their reliability. About once a year I buy 50lbs of hardware and fill the bins. Fastenal did a great job while it lasted but they left our area.