TMS South Fuels Growth With Infor10 Distribution Express

When Roy Turner founded IMSCO, he purchased an off-the-shelf accounting package to manage the company's books. Within a few years, Turner wanted affordable, highly functional software specifically designed to benefit the distribution industry to help IMSCO going forward.

Following a thorough search, IMSCO selected Infor10™ Distribution Express (FACTS). From accounting and sales to the warehouse and everywhere in between, the application was designed to help distributors like IMSCO enhance customer service, optimize inventory levels, increase productivity, and improve profitability. Distribution Express proved to be a wise choice, providing a solid platform that supported IMSCO's steady growth from an initial base of 4 users to 16 users within less than 10 years.

A key reason that IMSCO chose Distribution Express was its adherence to the inventory management principles of distribution industry guru Gordon Graham to enable growth and development. With inventory information made available across the organization in real time, IMSCO progressed well beyond using min/max reordering formulas. The company began using the Graham features of Distribution Express to make purchasing decisions in which lead times, safety stock days, sales histories, and vendor review days were factored into the equation. Featuring flags and other controls to account for unusual circumstances and to allow for the human override of suggested purchase orders, Distribution Express equipped IMSCO's managers with sophisticated software tools needed to minimize their inventory investment and maximize service to customers.