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Ferguson Tech Stack

Wholesale distributor of plumbing, HVAC, waterworks, and industrial supplies

Wholesale Newport News, Virginia 10,001+ employees Founded 1953 Public Company

Ferguson operates a 35,000-person distribution network across 1,700 locations serving plumbing, HVAC, waterworks, and industrial trades. The tech stack reflects a hybrid industrial-software operation: CAD tools (AutoCAD, Revit, SolidWorks, Creo), supply-chain systems (WMS, Coupa, Ariba), BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau), and embedded IoT (Alexa, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi). Hiring is sales-led and accelerating—96 of 220 active roles are sales, with most placements junior-level—while active projects signal M&A activity and geographic expansion alongside internal cost-allocation and tax-planning work.

Tech Stack 65 technologies

Core StackSalesforce SolidWorks Revit PyTorch ProCore Power BI Tableau AutoCAD Rotork Planswift Microsoft Project Microsoft Access Forklift Autodesk Creo Wi-Fi Bluetooth Alexa Google Home Mitsubishi Electric iPad GMAW Navisworks forklift WMS ServiceChannel AWS AMI HydroCAD Ariba Coupa+33 more

What Ferguson Is Building

Challenges

  • Identifying tax planning opportunities
  • Ensuring sox compliance
  • Global tax planning
  • Indirect tax audit coordination
  • Reasonable return on receivable investment
  • Fragmented hvac market
  • Bridging waterworks requirements and valve automation
  • Improving system efficiencies
  • Market development
  • Margin improvement

Active Projects

  • Transfer pricing analyses
  • Management cost allocation study
  • Selling water meters and smart water solutions to municipal and commercial clients across southern georgia
  • Pneumatic valve automation packages
  • Motor-operated valve automation projects
  • Dual trade business expansion in northeast wisconsin
  • Merger and acquisition activities
  • Merger and acquisition tax planning
  • Commercial fixtures project
  • Opening new branch

Hiring Activity

Accelerating220 roles · 180 in 30d

Department

Sales
96
Ops
43
Logistics
37
Engineering
16
Finance
12
Manufacturing
7
Construction
2
Support
2

Seniority

Junior
102
Mid
77
Manager
19
Senior
15
Director
7
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About Ferguson

Ferguson is a publicly traded wholesale distributor founded in 1953, headquartered in Newport News, Virginia. The company supplies plumbing, HVAC, waterworks, fire suppression, industrial, and facilities products to residential and commercial contractors across all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the Caribbean. As part of Ferguson Enterprises Inc., it operates approximately 1,700 branch locations and serves a customer base spanning trades, municipal utilities, and commercial facilities operators. The business runs on a mix of supply-chain software (WMS, procurement platforms), design and specification tools (CAD, BIM), and analytics infrastructure.

HeadquartersNewport News, Virginia
Company Size10,001+ employees
Founded1953
Hiring MarketsUnited States

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ferguson's tech stack?

Ferguson uses Salesforce for CRM, Coupa and Ariba for procurement, Power BI and Tableau for analytics, AWS AMI for cloud infrastructure, CAD tools (AutoCAD, Revit, SolidWorks, Creo), WMS for warehouse management, and IoT platforms (Alexa, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi). PyTorch and ProCore support AI/ML and field operations.

Where is Ferguson headquartered?

Ferguson is headquartered in Newport News, Virginia. The company operates 1,700 locations across all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

How this profile is built

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