Built Through Friendship
Our owners Isaac and Kris have known each other since they were 3 years old. They grew up in the same small town, and they share the same values and perspective on life: Work hard, do your best work and create your own opportunities for success.
Isaac joined the Peace Corps and taught children in Nicaragua. He then completed his Master's Degree in Instructional Design and Technology from Columbia.
Online Shopping Incident
When Isaac was in grad school, he was tasked with finding a paper shredder for his department. This should have been simple, but it wasn't. The shopping experience was terrible. Isaac knew shopping for a shredder online could be easy, so he decided to do something about it. He started coding a website and contacting manufacturers, and the result was Mono Machines, which would later become Supply Chimp.
Kris became a successful litigations consultant. He travelled all over the country, sometimes to the point that he was only home about 30% of the time.
Time to Grow
Mono Machines grew quickly. When the time came to involve someone else, Isaac wanted to bring someone he trusted into the picture. Someone who shared the same values, perspective and work ethic. Who better than his childhood best friend, Kris? The timing was right when Isaac reached out to Kris, because he had just recently married and was ready for a career change. For the next year, these two dug in and worked to grow Mono Machines together as a team.
During that time, Kris noticed quite a few government orders coming in. Intrigued, Kris researched and learned all he could about government contracts. He saw these contracts as an opportunity to serve our country by providing government agencies with the essential supplies they need on a day-to-day basis.
Becoming Supply Chimp
What started as an online office machine store with 500 products grew to encompass more of the essential items government entities need. In order to more appropriately reflect who they had become, Mono Machines was renamed Supply Chimp shortly after the company's 10th anniversary. Today, Supply Chimp provides thousands of products from categories including JanSan, Office Supplies, Industrial, Medical, Safety, MRO and Furniture.
Kris' strong background in government contract terminations and business litigation made navigating policy second nature, and this, along with a desire to serve, formed the foundation for Supply Chimp's strong focus on the government sector.
Proudly Serving Those Who Serve
We are proud Americans, and it's our honor to serve our great nation in any way we can. For us, that means:
- Delivering mission-critical essentials to Government agencies quickly and efficiently
- Maintaining a GSA Approved Web Portal that's clean, informative and easy to navigate
- Sharing expert product knowledge with our customers
We believe acquiring the supplies necessary for your mission should be simple, and we work hard to make it so. We add new products regularly with the aim to have what our government needs at prices that are as low as possible, helping to ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent frugally and wisely.
