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Supplier response · Pilot Company · Swag, Uniform & Safety Program

One partner for every item Pilot puts a logo on.

Company store, uniform program, safety apparel, promotional merchandise, warehousing, fulfillment and reporting — on one platform we build and run ourselves, from one building in Knoxville.

The response, section by section

Thirteen sections in the order section 8 names them, plus the section 9 business scenario.

  1. 01Executive OverviewA hundred years of making things, one family, one building, and a partnership with Pilot that started when Pilot had one employee.Read →
  2. 02Proposed SolutionOne proposal, built on our understanding of what Pilot actually needs — and an explicit commitment to change it when discovery proves us wrong.Read →
  3. 03ManufacturingWhat we make in house, what we contract, and where the line falls between them.Read →
  4. 04The Store PlatformProprietary. Secure. Flexible.Read →
  5. 05Platform CapabilitiesMobile, security, permissions, integrations, and the engineering resource behind all of it.Read →
  6. 06Uniform & SafetyDesign, issuance, sizing, replenishment and the exchange that every uniform program at this scale will need.Read →
  7. 07Governance & BrandHow an unapproved logo never reaches an item.Read →
  8. 08Inventory & FulfillmentOne building in Knoxville, the stocked versus made-to-order decision made per program, and the service metrics we are measured on.Read →
  9. 09Reporting & AnalyticsReporting out of our own ERP, which is why a report Pilot wants is something we can build rather than something we can request.Read →
  10. 10ImplementationA discovery period first, because a timeline published before discovery is a guess with dates on it.Read →
  11. 11Account & SupportA named team, with the President and Owner of the company on it.Read →
  12. 12InnovationWhat we are building now, and three specific ideas for Pilot's program over the next three years.Read →
  13. 13Client ExperienceFour programs at comparable scale — including the one Pilot already knows, because it is Pilot's.Read →
  14. §9The 1,000-Hire WaveSection 9 asks what happens when Pilot hires a thousand people across multiple states. Here is that month.Read →