by Webmaster | Feb 25, 2004 | Case Study, Distribution, Hybrid, Industries, Retail, Service, Software
Grassland Equipment is one outdoor equipment company that has seen how results-oriented automation can streamline processes and impact the bottom line. Grasslands is a 39-year-old company with a healthy, but complicated business: As a Toro distributor responsible for...
by Webmaster | Feb 25, 2004 | Case Study, Distribution, Industries, Retail, Software
On the surface of it, you might think that being a fresh fish market is a pretty simple business: you buy fish; you sell fish. But if you are Cousins Fish Market, specializing in putting fresh fish on the table for wholesale and retail customers from Lake Placid to...
by Webmaster | Feb 25, 2004 | Case Study, Distribution, Hybrid, Industries, Manufacturing, Retail, Software
The Company Nearly three and a half decades ago, Jim Fisk decided to create some detailed maps of Burnt Hills, NY, to help a group of people doing some canvassing for a church. From that humble beginning a company – JIMAPCO – was born and has since become an 18-person...
by Webmaster | Feb 25, 2004 | Case Study, Distribution, Hybrid, Industries, Manufacturing, Service, Software
In 1988, Peter Hess, president of Albany Steel, learned that the custom software he had paid to develop on his company’s Data General system computer system could not be run on any new Data General computers due to a redesign operating system. Further, he...
by Webmaster | Jul 10, 2002 | Case Study, Distribution, Hybrid, Industries, Manufacturing, Software
The management of inventory is a problem that can plague almost any industry, including machine shops and machining-intensive manufacturing operations. Dura-Mill, Inc. (Ballston Spa, New York) is just such a case. The company makes solid carbide end mills, and because...
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