The trend toward integrating supply of broad varieties of products and offering outsourcing services for customers promises to dramatically alter the way maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) supplies are bought and handled.

 Integrated supply is one of the most sweeping changes electrical distributors have faced in many years.

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