Sonepar’s Digital Job Center Surpasses $2B in Sales
Sonepar, Charleston, SC, announced its Digital Job Center, an online project management platform used by contractors nationwide, has surpassed $2 billion in sales. The milestone reflects five years of continuous development and customer engagement. The Digital Job Center’s +30% year-over-year growth also reflects growing demand for digital tools that simplify complex project workflows and mitigate the impact of industry-wide skilled labor shortages.
The Digital Job Center enables contractors, manufacturers and distributors to collaborate through a shared platform that integrates data from all parties, providing a single source of truth for project management. The tool has been refined over time based on customer feedback and usage patterns and was recently re-designed to be even more intuitive to use.
“It’s the best tool in the industry,” said Don Sarno, senior VP of Digital Enterprise for Sonepar Americas, in the press release. “Made with contractors, for contractors. For five years our customers have been placing orders and managing projects through the Digital Job Center, and we’ve been collecting feedback, adjusting the interface and adding new features. Our goal is always to take low- and no-value work off their hands.
“We heard from project managers that they want simplicity, speed, and transparency. The feedback was phenomenal. Customers were able to use the platform on their first login without any instruction.”
The recent redesign was informed by interviews and testing with more than 50 customers. In a beta testing phase, contractors’ project managers were given access to the intuitive platform without training. Future updates will include real-time inventory and shipment schedules not only from Sonepar companies but manufacturers as well. Users will be able to see backorder status directly from select manufacturers’ own systems. Wire management capabilities are also in the pipeline.
To illustrate the real-world impact digital solutions have on contractors’ daily work, Sonepar produced a series of lighthearted commercials. One video depicts contractors’ project managers searching through emails to trace a mistake on an order – an issue that could be avoided with centralized communication and a single source of truth. Another shows contractors submitting orders written on scraps of jobsite material, highlighting the need for more efficient, less error-prone ways of working (above).
Sonepar entered the US in 1998 and has continued to grow due to strategic acquisitions and organic growth. Today, Sonepar serves the market through a network of companies with over 570 locations nationwide and 12,800 associates. The company is ranked #2 on Electrical Wholesaling's 2025 Top 100 ranking.