Odoo Equips McCoy Medical's Future with Streamlined Operations
Location/Region: St. Louis, Missouri
Industry: Educational Medical Supplies
Apps implemented: Knowledge, CRM, Sales, Accounting, Subscriptions, Inventory, Helpdesk, Website, eLearning, Email Marketing, Events, Website, Purchase, Manufacturing, Sign
Software Replaced: Custom/In-House ERP
Number of users: 50 users
Company size: 120
Hosting type: Odoo on-premise

Doctors and nurses perform life-saving procedures daily, providing critical care to people who need medical attention. This is why medical schooling is one of the most rigorous educational journeys a person can take. Our nurses and doctors go through years of learning, training, and hands-on practice to ensure they are prepared for the career ahead of them. Companies such as McCoy Medical provide medical students with the training equipment needed to give them the most real-life experience possible without actually engaging with human patients.
Founded in 1973, McCoy Medical was created under the parent company MMCI Holdings, which also owns two other businesses– Matthews Book Company and International Wholesale Supply. With Matthews Book Company distributing health science books to the same market, McCoy Medical was the natural next step in supplying medical universities and their campus stores with all of the resources necessary to best educate their students.
Today, McCoy Medical sells a variety of training equipment for future doctors and nurses, including lab coats, syringes, PPE, injection pad trainers, CPR kits, stethoscopes, and more. As the Missouri-based company expanded its operations, its old business management software wasn’t cutting it. It needed a more robust ERP to support its continued success in the medical education industry and, as it turns out, Odoo was the right fit.

Juggling systems and slowed efficiency pre-Odoo
Prior to using Odoo, McCoy Medical utilized a custom ERP system designed by an in-house IT technician. The company used it primarily for sales orders, inventory management, and manufacturing purposes. CEO Gedas Gudenas explains that while the custom software sufficed for some time, its functionality unfortunately couldn’t keep up with the company’s growth. He says that McCoy Medical eventually had to integrate so many other systems, including accounting software, with its custom ERP that it became cumbersome, slowing down efficiency and opening up a space for errors to occur. Simply put, this old system required too much manual labor in order to work.
The company began coming to terms with the idea that it would have to upgrade its software, and started researching alternative options. In addition to Odoo, McCoy Medical explored the popular Netsuite, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics. Odoo, Gedas explains, had better value for the amount of features it offered compared to competitors. He also really liked that Odoo is open-source, lending itself well to customizations down the line depending on what the company needed. And finally, Odoo is simply user-friendly. This was especially appealing given that McCoy Medical had been using its custom-designed ERP since the ‘90s, and many employees were used to this system. Odoo’s ease of use helped make the transition less daunting.
McCoy Medical paired up with Odoo Partner Sodexis Inc. for its implementation, which Gedas says went smoothly. Sodexis helped McCoy Medical build custom tools, such as an import function that helped migrate “millions of records” to Odoo from the company’s old system.

"Having a good partner was definitely a really, really, really good thing. It was an investment. Another good thing about Odoo is they have a good partner system."
Gedas Gudenas, CEO of McCoy Medical
A healthy future ahead with Odoo’s integration
In the past four years, Odoo has helped McCoy Medical have a much more cohesive flow of operations. Before, the company connected many 3rd party platforms to its in-house system to have all of the functionality it needed. Now, Odoo’s full integration allows McCoy Medical to complete its tasks from start to finish using the same software system. This saves the company tremendous manpower and reduces the risk of errors.

In an ongoing sense, Gedas particularly appreciates the fact that Odoo is constantly growing and adapting to businesses’ changing needs. With each new Odoo version, new, useful features and modules are available for McCoy Medical to implement into its daily workflows.
The big thing is I like that it changes every year. They’re adding new features. There’s always something new that’s being added.