CED National takes pride in its superior customer service and continually strives  for above-and-beyond creativity and responsiveness. Communication with both  customers and manufacturers is the key to CED National’s success as a lighting  and electrical supply partner that is so much more.
 
Customer-Specific Inventory

 Working with manufacturers, CED National maintains inventory unique to each  customer’s ongoing needs so the lights can come on when they’re supposed to.  Manager George Norton calls it “just-in-time inventory,” an efficient practice that  ensures a store-opening package arrives exactly when it is needed. The normal  wholesale turnaround of two to three days just won’t work in the national accounts  arena, where down-to-the-wire scheduling is a matter of course, and customers  have invested heavily in advertising scheduled store openings. But CED  National’s customer-specific inventory is not limited to lighting and electrical  products.

 “We don’t have tunnel vision here,” says National Accounts Manager Steve  Spencer. CED National sees its role as much more than just a lighting supplier,  stepping in to solve unusual problems its customers encounter. That means  vacuum cleaners, tool kits, gas cans, or even margarita machines might share  warehouse space with customer-specific lighting and electrical inventory. “We  know we can’t be all things to all people,” Spencer says, “but that’s not going to  stop us from trying.”

 CED National does whatever it takes to get the doors open on time—and keep  them open, day after day, without a hitch: