Case Study IBM Sales and Distribution Industrial Products Baldor Electric Company is located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and builds industrial electric motors, mechanical power transmission products, drives and generators. Baldor, part of the ABB Group’s Discrete Automation and Motion division, sells its products worldwide to distributors and original equipment manufacturers in more than 70 countries. The company operates from 50 sales offices and warehouses in North America, and 26 offices serving international markets. The company also runs 26 manufacturing sites in the U.S., Canada, England, Mexico and China. When Baldor acquired one of its major competitors it also acquired approximately 200 heterogeneous stand-alone servers, running various operating systems and applications.

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