Whether you are new to lumber wholesaling, looking to sharpen essential skills needed for the role, or don’t understand how board feet and freight costs impact the bottom line of your lumber orders, then this course is going to help you understand the importance of lumber math. Through a series of real world lumber orders, we’ll walk you through how freight, mill and company pricing all impacts the final price to your customer. Its essential to provide the best and most accurate pricing to your customers. This course will help you walk through the steps of creating that final price. Every wholesaler needs to understand the basics of lumber math to do their job and do their job well. This course’s purpose is to teach you those basics, practice them through a few real world orders and give you the tools and knowledge necessary to complete this on your own.

In today’s high-stakes, margin-sensitive lumber and building materials industry, every decision counts. This practical training series, built specifically for NAWLA members, shows how to harness the power of AI—without IT support or complex systems.

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