PUBLISHED BY: MSA Systems, Inc.
Founded by Dale Hampton in 1973 to
distribute automotive security hardware, the company is now international in scope, manufacturing and sourcing product in Asia and distributing more than 10,000 SKUs under six brands in 11 retail categories throughout North America and in several countries abroad.
The company had been using a Macola ERP system with a WMS component that was supplemented by internally developed add-on applications. But in early 2008, management concluded that the company’s expansion and diversification had extended the system to capacity and that change was required.