Case Study: Wist Office Products achieves 10% reduction in employee overhead and 4% gross margin increase with Vormittag Associates (VAI)

Industry leading office supply company, Wist, streamlines operations and decreases overhead cost with VAI ERP

Wist Business Supply & Equipment, the largest independently owned office supply company in the Southwest, faced an outdated ERP that forced manual data entry, inflated labor costs, and threatened its next‑day delivery promise across ~50,000 SKUs. To modernize distribution, warehouse and inventory management and introduce automated purchasing, Wist selected VAI and its S2K for Distribution (S2K Enterprise) solution.

VAI implemented S2K’s Suggested Purchasing and warehouse automation (picking and order verification), integrated supplier communications, and real‑time inventory controls, eliminating opinion‑based buying and manual workflows. As a result, VAI’s S2K helped Wist reduce inventory, cut warehouse labor and streamline operations—recouping implementation costs in two years, reducing employee overhead by 10% and increasing gross margins by about 4%.

Wist Office Products

Robert Wist

Chief Executive Officer