Houston-based David Weekley Homes, the nation’s largest private home builder, released the winners of its 12th Partners of Choice Award. According to the builder, these suppliers have operated at "world-class levels" through the year, and have been recognized by its supplier evaluation platform. Weekley says its "rigorous, comprehensive process" is anchored by the National Trading Partner Survey and evaluates companies in the areas of quality, service, performance in reliability, communication, timeliness, follow-through, and other areas critical to the business relationship.

The following companies were recognized as winners of the “A,A” Award for achieving excellence in both quality and service:

• Acme Brick

• Blanco

• Blind Ambitions

• Boise Cascade

• Bosch/Thermador Appliances

• Dow

• James Hardie®

• Johns Manville

• Office Depot

• Seybro Doors

• Simpson Strong-Tie

• Square D

• Trane®

• Weyerhaeuser

The following companies received an “A” Award, for achieving excellence in either quality or service:

• ABC Supply Co. Inc. (Service)

• GAF (Service)

• Home Team Pest Defense (Quality)

• Honeywell (Service)

• Hunter Douglas (Service)

• Lennox – HVAC (Service)

• Louisiana Pacific (Service)

• Owens Corning (Service)

• Rheem (Service)

• SRS Distribution (Quality)

• Uponor (Service)

Through a series of evaluations, one-on-one discussions, formalized feedback instruments, coaching sessions and action plans, David Weekley Homes uses its supplier platform to analyze national trading partners’ performance as well as their channel partners across all industries. The quarterly survey is a comprehensive review of David Weekley Homes’ supplier performance as assessed by approximately 1,000 team members from all levels within the company, and provides its trading partners an opportunity to review and improve their channel alignment and performance.

“The economy continues to challenge us from an innovative, cost and regulatory perspective,” said Bill Justus, vice president of Supply Chain Services for David Weekley Homes in a press release. “Our supplier feedback platform helps identify those companies that are up for the challenge in helping us create a world-class home buying experience for our customers. These are the partners with whom we will want to continue to align ourselves.”

First-time recipients in 2016 are Blanco and SRS Distribution, Inc. Daniel Rucker, director of Builder Sales with SRS Distribution, said in a press release that the award is an exciting measurement of the company’s success as well as other national builder partners.

“The SRS family of companies is honored to receive the Partners of Choice award from David Weekley Homes,” said Rucker. “It is our goal to align with the best and believe our partnership and results are an example of two great companies working together for a common goal – exceeding customer expectations.”