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Amid MRC Global Integration, DNOW Wrestles with Challenges from ERP Transition

When their $1.5 billion combination finalized in early November, it also kicked off a U.S. ERP transition for MRC that has had major problems from the start. We detail and analyze what DNOW has shared about those issues.

February 20, 2026

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Combining two relatively equal-sized companies is a major challenge in itself in terms of processes and people. And distributors know all too well how big of a project an ERP transition can be. Now try doing both at the same time, and while addressing a major fire in the form of that ERP project not going at all according to plan. That triple-whammy is what the team at DNOW is up to in the wake of its $1.5 billion acquisition of MRC Global that combined two critical distribution partners to the U.S. oilfield and energy markets. Back on Nov. 5 — one day before DNOW announced the completed…

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