When companies contact Midwest Distribution Systems (MDS) for outsourced warehousing and distribution services, they value the central Midwest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin location with facilities totalling 400,000 square feet of space. They choose MDS for its creative warehousing and distribution operation and value-added fulfillment capability. One need only spend a moment with the forward looking ownership and management team of MDS to understand why.

MDS associates learn to exercise an awareness and sensitivity to ask customers and prospective clients the right questions and "dig" for more information than is frequently presented or being considered for an outsourced project.

"If our people can uncover a need or help bring an idea to light that adds value or delivers an overall savings within the context of the total supply chain, then we've really done our job. Otherwise we haven't provided the help clients have come to expect from MDS. Those who have worked with us quickly learn that MDS can be trusted to think of ways to make things better. And, they count on us to do just that."

         -- Susan H. Allen | Vice President - Operations

Vision
MDS was one of the first to recognize the fading paradigm of the traditional "pallet-in / pallet-out" public warehouse. It was this vision and the drive to find a better way that caused MDS to task its systems group with a mission to develop and perfect what are now among today's best hybrid systems using the RF driven WMS/ barcode technology MDS pioneered in the 1980's. These systems proved to be dynamic and industry changing, impacting many warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing companies that were "losing control" in the late 1980's and throughout the 1990's. MDS also recognized another growing demand when it was still in its infancy.

By transforming its warehousing operations to the emerging model of a dynamic high-tech distribution center, offering broad fulfillment services with an important logistics role, and able to provide creative sales and marketing support services, MDS not only survived but thrived in an era when many warehousing operations were falling to the wayside or disappearing altogether. Call or write today for more information.