McLane Distribution Systems (MDS)

Streamlining your warehouse and supply chain operations

Overhead costs, inventory turnover, productivity…these are all daily concerns of any business that stores and moves inventory. McLane Distribution Systems (MDS) is the solution to those concerns. MDS can cover any size operation with multiple products to re-energize your business and keep it running on all cylinders. Whether you need an end-to-end supply chain system, a warehouse management system, or an ecommerce application, MDS can help you lower operating costs, manage inventory turnover, and increase productivity. With implementations all over the world, MDS has proven it can handle company’s supply chain.

The benefits are enormous. MDS can help you lower operating costs, manage inventory, and increase productivity. You will achieve improved fill rates and shipment accuracy, reducing transportation costs. Improved operational performance will in turn enhance sales, profitability and customer service.

Implementations all over the world demonstrate MDS‘ commitment to successful supply chain management in the food, grocery, general merchandise, drug, electronics, auto parts, home furnishing and home improvement sectors. Learn more about how McLane Distribution Systems can give you an edge in global markets through supply chain improvement.

MDS Enterprise

MDS Enterprise is a premiere logistics and distribution application suited for your global operations. MDS Enterprise is built on business practices refined for more than 30 years by the McLane Company, the largest convenience store distribution company in the world. Over the past 16 years, MDS Enterprise has continued to evolve to support new business processes and technologies across a wide range of enterprise environments.

You can rely on MDS Enterprise to move your products to market rapidly. Managing inventory more efficiently cuts costs, builds profits, and improves customer service, satisfaction, and loyalty. Accurately tracking records for all supply chain transactions helps you control the entire purchasing process. When your shipping and receiving staff can collect data rapidly and accurately, it streamlines your entire warehouse operation. You will be able to view inventory status and secure transactional reports online anytime.

MDS provides rich and deep functionality throughout the enterprise including:

ForecastingWarehouse ManagementFinancial Inventory Control
PurchasingOrder ProcessingPerformance Metrics
CostingInvoicingOperational Reports
PricingRouting & TransportationFinance & Administration
PromotionsSales & Marketing

Web-based System for Real-time Monitoring

McLane Distribution Systems WMS is a robust solution built on a foundation of best practices in the flow of merchandise through the supply chain. All business processes, tasks and individual work assignments are system-directed in real time. This drives operating efficiencies, inventory visibility, workload monitoring and shipment accuracy.

MDS Warehouse Management System automates the store, traffic and shipping management and processes the associated transactions, including shipping, receiving, putaway and picking. MDS WMS is a configurable solution that supports a broad range of distribution center environments with no limitations on the number of sku’s and receiving and shipping volume.

The technology behind MDS Warehouse Management System efficiently enables a seamless link to order processing and logistics management in order to pick, pack and ship product out of the facility. Efficient warehouse management maximizes and gives a competitive edge to a distribution company. MDS Warehouse Management System is licensed, deployed and supported in a manner that provides our customers with significantly lower total cost of ownership than is available with other systems.

Leveraging the Internet for Enhanced Global Distribution

Advancements in Internet technology have driven the dramatic rise of e-Commerce in today’s global economy. McLane Advanced Technologies offers an innovative, customized e-Commerce solution that will power your business for maximum profitability. MDS e-Commerce is a robust, user-configurable Business-to-Business (B2B) solution that supports all aspects of the order-to-cash process. This customer-centric solution strengthens the interaction between buyers and sellers, enabling them to manage pricing, promotions and deals.

MDS e-Commerce enhances sales via a Web portal easily accessible to your customers so they can more effectively manage order creation, costing, retail pricing and gross margin expectations. In providing more methods for customers to place orders, MDS e-Commerce helps wholesale distributors reduce excessive order entry personnel and decrease call volume to customer service when customers want to track order status. Customers can also view inventory availability, invoices and balances online. Sales personnel can assess inventory while at a given customer’s facility and place orders from the road on your clients’ behalf, streamlining and optimizing your sales process. With MDS e-Commerce, you will reduce overall cost of the entire order-to-cash business process, improve customer retention and enhance sales.

Global e-commerce transcends business boundaries and is having a substantial impact on the global economy. Find out how MDS e-Commerce can help you leverage the Internet as a global distribution tool.

MDS Partners with Microsoft Dynamics AX®

MDS in partnership with Microsoft is in the process of developing an industry leading WMS solution that will be embedded in the Dynamics AX ERP solution. This new application will be offered by MDS and Microsoft business partners starting in the second quarter of 2010.

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