Marine Depot was recognized with the Excellence in Innovation Award. The Excellence in Innovation Award recognizes customers whose innovative use of technology in their business management system delivers measurable benefits to their organization. Candidates for this award are judged on creativity, vision, and the overall results and benefits of their implementation.

Marine Depot distributes supplies to the salt water aquarium industry. They sell to both the end customer and to pet supply retailers and wholesalers. Products include tank pumps, skimmers, chemical additives, tubing, fish food and specialty fish, which are sourced from multiple vendors.
Through Marine Depot's partnership with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Collins Computing, Marine Depot selected and implemented Great Plains 8.0 for Financials and Distribution along with RockySoft for warehouse demand planning and Maximum Data's InTouch Warehouse Management Solutions for bar coding, picking, packing and shipping, as well as several other solutions that assist with running their web-stores and internal operations.

Ken Wong, Founder and CEO of Marine Depot, is excited by the new solution. The Excellence in Innovation Award is icing on the cake. "Productivity is way up. Customer satisfaction is rising due to our improved inventory accuracy and shipping speed. We've cut out so much manual work in the warehouse and in accounting, that we've been able to increase capacity by 30% without adding staff."

"We are excited for all that we've been able to accomplish with Marine Depot. Great Plains is a great solution for the distribution industry." says Randy Forkner, president of Collins Computing.

"The key to Marine Depot's success," says David Hurwitz, a warehouse consultant for Marine Depot, "is that they were so willing to challenge their existing processes. I congratulate Ken and Marine Depot for reaching this phase where they are able to start reaping the success of all the hard work they put into selecting and implementing this solution. "

About Collins Computing

Marine Depot works with Microsoft Gold Certified Business Solutions reselling partner Collins Computing of Mission Viejo, CA. Collins Computing is Microsoft Business Solutions local "go-to" partner for consumer packaged goods and distribution expertise. Collins Computing has been recognized as the U.S. Outstanding Partner of the Year, and has been a member of Microsoft's Inner Circle (top 1% partners) since 1995.

About Microsoft Business Solutions

Microsoft Business Solutions products and services are financial, customer relationship and supply chain management applications for small and midsize businesses, large organizations, and divisions of global enterprises. Delivered through a network of channel partners providing specialized services, these integrated, adaptable business applications work like and with familiar Microsoft software to streamline processes across an entire business.

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Adrianne Machina
Director of Marketing
Collins Computing, Inc.
(949) 457-0500 x213
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