Fastenal Company

Winona, Minnesota

Whether a company needs nuts, bolts, screws, or any other fastening system, they turn to Fastenal Company, the largest fastener distributor and the fastest growing full-line industrial distributor in North America. To keep Fastenal Company trucks on the road with the right inventory and store sites stocked with what local customers need, Fastenal Company turned to Wyse® Winterm™ thin clients and thin computing.

Fastenal Company leads the industry in developing information systems for its in-house manufacturing and quality assurance testing, and to manage distribution hubs located throughout North America. Fastenal Company’s business systems have to keep pace with the company’s rapid growth, about 20% per year for the past five years. Since their original deployment of thin clients in 1999, the company has more than doubled in size with 8,000 employees, 1700 stores, and 12 distribution centers.

Solution Architecture

• 6500 Wyse® Winterm™ Thin Clients devices
• Network: citrix Metaframe, Windows Terminal Server 2003 with RDP, Highspeed broadband network
• Applications: Microsoft Office Suite, Custome programs for point-of-sale, inventory, CRM, Accounting, HR software

"Our Wyse sales reps, have come
on site to help us get our oldest thin
clients working faster. They've
shared in our troubles even though
they weren't created by Wyse. That
is one reason we’ve never looked at
other thin client solutions. I don't
think we'd get that support from
someone else."

Al Rothering
Tech Support Lead
Fastenal Company Industrial
& Construction Supplies

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