Distribution giant Winsupply Inc. broke ground today on the future home of the Richard W. Schwartz Center for Innovation in Moraine, OH.  The 28,000 sq ft facility will also be the new home of Winsupply of Dayton.  Opening is expected in the summer of 2021.

The Richard W. Schwartz Center for Innovation will serve as a local training facility for Winsupply Support Services employees, as well as the place where new support services for the company’s 600 distributor locations will be piloted and finalized.

Winsupply has 275 people working at its adjacent campus in Moraine.

“Having the capability to work side-by-side with Winsupply of Dayton, an actual operating company, allows them to obtain real-world feedback from the local distributor employees using their services in real time,” said John McKenzie, president of Winsupply Inc.

“Our chairman, Rick Schwartz, spearheaded automation at Winsupply with our first IBM computer system not long after he joined the company in 1972,” McKenzie said.  “He led the development of our enterprise resource planning system that every Winsupply location uses for order processing, accounting and financial reporting, inventory management, and so much more.”

Founded in 1956, Dayton, OH-based Winsupply supplies construction and industrial supplies and equipment headquartered in Dayton, OH.  Web: winsupplyinc.com