Winston McCleery's journey from rockets to distribution: a year-long probe into state-of-the-art distribution, manufacturing and technology: he's spent more than four decades pushing computers to out-of-this-world and down-to-earth places.(Cutting Edge)

Supply House Times, February, 2004 by Olsztynski, Jim

If he had done nothing else with his life, it would be worth writing about Winston McCleery Sr., for his contributions to the whole sale-distribution field. Since 1969, he has been a consultant helping government agencies, wholesalers and other businesses meld computer technology with distribution systems. A company he founded in 1982, known since 2002 as Management Software Systems, Inc. (MSS), is both a turnkey and application service provider (ASP) of computer systems geared to small wholesaler-distributors.

For the last couple of years McCleery has been a guest lecturer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB), whose Department of Management, Marketing and Industrial Distribution specializes in the study of distribution via small and medium-size...

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