As previously reported on February 13, MSC Industrial Supply announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued it a patent covering a technology system and business process to help its customers document various inventory and operational cost savings achieved through use of MSC's services. The newly patented system and process involves a computer-based data warehouse that contains a cost-savings delivery mechanism. "MSC's patented cost-savings documentation system supports our associates' ability to bring deep expertise and insights to customers to not only keep their manufacturing operations up and running, but to improve their productivity, profitability and performance. Our system is unique in that it provides our customers the ability to select the specific savings metrics that are most important to them in managing their operations and the automated system quantifies the actual savings achieved," said Doug Jones, Executive VP and Chief Supply Chain Officer for MSC.