MacGregor – Setting the Standard for Logistics Technology Partners

“Where did the name ‘MacGregor’ come from?” is a question that Jason Ziegler, President and owner at MacGregor Partners, loves to answer. The moniker comes from a draft house in Cary, North Carolina where ownership met as they formed the company.

Ziegler elaborates with a smile, “We looked for a name that was unique and new but didn’t feel pretentious – the way we wanted our company to operate. After several meetings where we failed to agree on the right name for our new venture, we decided to adopt the name of the draft house we met at ‘MacGregor’ and tack on ‘Partners’ to reinforce our desire to focus on longstanding partnerships with our clients.”

According to Ziegler, this focus on “partnership” is the core reason why MacGregor Partners came into existence in the first place, “We didn’t want to be just another vendor to our clients, we wanted to become partners with our clients.”While the company today is known more informally as MacGregor, the focus on partnership is still as important today as it was in 2012.

Founded in 2012, MacGregor sought to provide the JDA/RedPrairie community with a different breed of implementation partner – a partner willing to do whatever it took to ensure successful deployments of warehouse management systems (WMS) and warehouse labor management systems (WLM), and who was also focused on the long-term success and sustainability of the client’s solution.

Using this model MacGregor quickly proved themselves to be one of the preeminent JDA integrators in the industry.

Since 2012, MacGregor has grown from a JDA integrator to a much larger organization with a focus on solving the supply chain technology needs of its clients, further distinguishing itself from its competitors.

Ziegler attributes this distinction to the diverse group of more than 80 employees who have joined MacGregor since 2012.

“Many of our employees have worked inside 3PLs like DHL, Genco, DSC, APL, and XPO, and they bring experience in supply chain technology like WMS, MRP, WCS, WES, integration, analytics, transportation, and automation. With that robust experience pool, we’re able to bring insight and expertise to every facet of a problem. We’re able to address the problem from every angle which leads to quick and efficient solutions for our clients, which typically has not been done within the supply chain industry,” contends Ziegler.

This methodology coupled with the continued success of its JDA consultancy has landed MacGregor on the Inc. Magazine’s “Inc. 5000” list of fastest-growing private organizations in America the last three years. For MacGregor, success all comes back to the value-added to their logistics and 3PL clients.

“We’ve expanded our services to better serve a wider range of clients and pride ourselves on being the technology partners for both established and growing 3PL’s. We’re driving the competitive edge and success in the execution and sales cycles of our 3PL partners,” says Ziegler.

MacGregor’s Services

MacGregor continues to evolve and has expanded its supply chain software consultancy to support multiple WMS, WLM, and TMS packages while providing “24x7x365” onshore support to every application, integration, and piece of hardware they deploy.

Through deep partnerships with some of the best automation and autonomous mobile robot (AMR) vendors, MacGregor can bring additional technology resources to their clients.

Their ‘Intelligent Warehouse Services’ (IWS) offering focuses on the marriage between technology, automation, and the operation. IWS works to eliminate what folks at MacGregor refer to as “ROI Drift”.