134 Business View Magazine - July 2016
Elite Supply Chain Solutions
& MH Equipment
The beginning of a successful relationship
When MH Equipment of Peoria, Illinois, one of the
country’s largest and fasting growing material handling
service providers and a long-time dealer of Hyster and
other name-brand forklifts, bought Elite Supply Chain
Solutions two years ago, an Ohio-based, Design Build
company for the warehouse, distribution, and order
fulfillment industry, it still remained to be seen if the
synergies between the companies would provide win-
win-win opportunities for their clients, MH, and Elite.
All the signs seemed positive, though, according to
Scott Hennie, President of Elite. “MH Equipment’s pri-
mary business is its lift truck sales and service,” he
explains. “Elite Supply Chain Solutions works in a very
similar market by designing and implementing what
we call ‘integrated systems,’ which is essentially the