MDS Warehouse 3G
McLane Advanced Technologies: Warehouse Management System Pioneers
Since the advent of the Warehouse Management System — McLane Advanced Technologies has been there. Our company was founded on the experience and knowledge of over a century in the distribution industry. Our founder, Drayton McLane, grew a small, grocery business into what is now one of the largest foodservice distributors in the world — McLane Company.
Our Warehouse Management System is at the foundation of Walmart’s supply chain
The methodology and approach used to streamline the large-scale supply chain operations of McLane Company were acquired by Walmart in the early 1990’s. Walmart utilized the processes and technologies in place at McLane Company to expand its grocery distribution operations into what it is today.
This intellectual property around distribution also caught the eye of Microsoft – which is why McLane Advanced Technologies partnered with Microsoft to develop the best-of-breed warehouse management system — MDS Warehouse 3G — embedded in Microsoft Dynamics® AX.
Warehouse management is just the beginning of our long-term strategy of proactively developing end-to-end supply chain management technology into the Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP system. We plan to take every bit of our supply chain intellectual property and put it into Microsoft Dynamics AX in order to provide distributors with a complete supply chain management and ERP solution that will be more robust than anything else in the Microsoft Partner community.
No one knows the distribution business better
Our employees have spent years optimizing the global operations of supply chains around the world. We know how to utilize warehouse layouts, processes, and technology to streamline any distributors operations. This domain expertise is what sets us apart from other Microsoft ISVs.
We are here to teach distributors how to best utilize technology to optimize their supply chains. We have experienced the issues and complications that can arise on a daily basis...and we know how to resolve them.
A growing need in the manufacturing and distribution verticals
The top manufacturing and distribution vertical markets represent a growing, yet underserved, global market. New revenue potential within these verticals is estimated at well over $100 million per year. Emerging geographical areas such as Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia are growing at an incredible pace — with distribution and manufacturing leading the way.
We partner for your expertise
Partners try to make each other successful by focusing on their individual strengths to help customers succeed. We have a long history of hands-on global supply chain execution experience because we have done it profitably ourselves for well over a century. We also continually improve our deep supply chain execution technology solutions by embedding them into the Microsoft Dynamic AX solution. We are now rapidly increasing our focus towards building strong partnerships in the Microsoft commercial ecosystem to drive implementation and integration of end-to-end ERP solutions containing our embedded best of breed supply chain execution technology solutions. A partnership approach will provide the fastest end-customer benefits from seamless implementations, rapidly improved customer business operations, and a lower total cost of ownership than any competing solution. We are looking for the best ERP implementers and integrators in the world to partner with in order to deliver these world-class solutions to customers.
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