MARSHALL INDUSTRIES

Mr. Rodin served for over 10 years as CEO and President of Marshall Industries [NYSE: MI] a global, industrial, electronics distributor and supply chain management company with $2 billion in sales (and an additional $1 Billion in joint venture alliances).
Marshall Industries (1984–1999) was founded in 1954 by Gordon S. Marshall and was among the largest distributors of industrial electronic components, semiconductors and production supplies. The Company also provided its customers with a variety of value added services such as inventory management, kitting, programming of logic devices and testing services. The Company distributed over 250,000 different products manufactured by over 5000 suppliers to more than 250,000 global customers which included a wide range of original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and value-added resellers. Marshall Industries was sold to Avnet Inc.
At Marshall Industries, Mr. Rodin led the enterprise design which created a complete transformation of the company’s organizational structure and entire IT platform [and interface modules] which included complete development and implementation of the following systems: ERP, MRP, forecast and demand planning, CRM [customer relationship management], SRM [supplier relationship management], ERM [employee relationship management] and an ASRS [automated storage retrieval warehouse system]. All of these solutions were required to interface seamlessly with the company’s global customer base and Marshall’s joint venture partners [in 36 countries in Europe and Asia]. Mr. Rodin engineered the astounding reinvention of Marshall Industries turning a conventionally successful $500 million business into a $2 billion competitive powerhouse, a high-speed, high-profit junction box wired to today’s imperatives.
The Company’s dramatic transformation and growth from $400 million to $1.8 billion was chronicled in W. Edwards Deming‘s last book The New Economics, a Harvard Case Study, and Free Perfect and Now,[3] by Mr. Rodin.