SAN DIEGO, CA – January 16, 2012 – Trade Service, the leading provider of product and pricing data to the plumbing/mechanical industry, introduces Submittal Manager™. With it, plumbing/mechanical contractors can build professional job submittals, start-to-finish, and ready to send to the project owner, general contractor, architect, or engineer for sign-off. Submittal Manager can also be utilized by plumbing/mechanical distributors as a time-saving tool when asked to take on the entire submittal building task for their contractor customer.

Submittal Manager is the first product of its kind to focus specifically on the plumbing/mechanical marketplace. The online software was generated from a blueprint of the company’s electrical version that has been in the market for nearly a year. “From meetings we had with our plumbing/ mechanical customers, it was clear that Submittal Manager was badly needed in this industry as well,” said Tod Moore, Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Trade Service. “It was important for us to offer the same resource-saving attributes in a fully refined and perfected product,” added Moore.

With Submittal Manager, Trade Service leverages its extensive library of 250,000, up-to-date manufacturer catalog pages, robust electronic mark-up tools, and other user-friendly conventions, to give customers an easier method of creating professional job submittals. Not only can users find pages quickly with targeted search methods, but Submittal Manager can also match an uploaded parts’ list against the database to find and automatically add corresponding catalog pages to the submittal. This automation represents a significant reduction in effort, potentially allowing a user to create a submittal in a fourth of the time. Users will also find that work done in previous submittals can be applied to future submittals, eliminating the need to start from scratch.

Submittal Manager is the only service that helps the user do the actual work of building the submittal. The 250,000 catalog pages represent over 1 million plumbing/mechanical items and are constantly updated and can be instantly loaded into the submittal. It also automatically classifies the document to the industry standard CSI MasterFormat®. Submittal Manager is a professional tool that can save users up to 75% off the time it takes to do submittals the traditional way and Trade Service looks forward to helping contractors and distributors save time and money.

About Trade Service
Trade Service Company is the leading provider of product and price information to the plumbing/mechanical, HVACR, electrical, industrial MRO, and office products industries.  Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of contractors, distributors, and government agencies.  The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts.