Brad Beldon leads his roofing company through ‘double whammy’ of labor shortage, broken supply chain
Jodi McCue and Brad Beldon pose Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022 outside the Beldon corporate headquarters. The Beldon companies recently launched Ozbee Team Software, a construction software platform built on the Salesforce CRM services, with McCue as the Vice President of customer experience and Beldon as the CEO.Brad Beldon, CEO of Beldon Roofing, describes the challenges facing the construction industry as a “perfect storm.
“You have the supply chain crisis hitting at the exact same time that labor became a crisis,” he said. “COVID took more labor out of the equation and then it shut down factories. When they shut down factories, they can’t get capacity back up. So there’s no inventory and if there’s no inventory it’s just-in-time, and just-in-time is, ‘Everybody needs it today.’”
Ozbee, which operates on the Salesforce cloud platform, was launched earlier this month at the International Roofing Expo in New Orleans. Since then, Beldon and McCue have received more than 100 inquiries, he said. It is undergoing a security review from Salesforce before it can be released on the platform.
Beldon recently sat for an interview to discuss Ozbee, the supply chain breakdown, and why young Americans aren’t entering the construction industry. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.It’s unprecedented. We have zero transparency. The inflation is just outpacing everything. I think there was an article that I read today — construction costs this year are up 23.6 percent or something like that, year over year, which is just mind boggling.
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