Why mid-size manufacturer picked Microsoft for ERP
crn.com | at | by Mike
With $60 million in annual revenue and the top three U.S. carmakers as customers, MESCO had no shortage of suitors when it decided to replace its 25-year-old enterprise resource planning system from Data Ware Inc. It chose Microsoft's ERP system. The software had to go because Data Ware would no longer support the legacy system, said Chris Long, director of business development and information technology for MESCO, which stands for Manufacturers Equipment & Supply Co.
Business software makers big and small would like MESCO as a customer. The Flint, Mich.-based distributor of industrial supplies is the kind of mid-size business that software vendors are targeting to boost sales in a down economy that has large companies skittish.