- 1. Nearshoring Has a Long Upside
- (Logistics)
- ... with distribution industry associations and buying groups and is a frequent speaker at industry events. Before his role at Infor, Will ran distribution centers for Grainger, Coca-Cola, MSC Industrial ...
- 2. B2B eCommerce Erupts
- (News)
- We've all wtinessed, and experienced, the tremendous growth in consumer ecommerce. You know what's even bigger, though? Business to busines (B2B) ecommerce, and it's growing by leaps and bounds as well.In ...
- 3. Amazon Update Time
- (News)
- Amazon Supply has been in the B2B space for awhile now. They've added products and website functionality, but how are they doing and how are competitors reacting?Clare O'Connor, in a Forbes article, gives ...
- 4. What is Amazon Supply Doing?
- (Blogs)
- ... directly at Grainger as being one big obstacle in Amazon’s path. That’s interesting, since Grainger owns only 6% of the market and has in the past been lumped in with ‘other major players worried about ...
- 5. Same Day Delivery Lessons
- (News)
- Why re-invent the wheel if someone has already been down the path you're considering? For the hot 'Same Day Delivery' trend, Grainger has tons of experience in satisfying its customers.On the Talking Logistics ...
- 6. eProcurement Market Analysis
- (News)
- Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell at Spend Matters take a critical look at what's going on in the eProcurement (P2P) market. With consolidation and new players happening on what seems to be a daily basis, ...
- 7. Amazon and B2B
- (News)
- As we all know, Amazon has stuck its considerable toe in the B2B water with the opening of Amazon Supply. As it moves forward, supply chain and logistics challenges are popping up.In a DC Velocity article, ...
- 8. Industrial Distribution eCommerce
- (News)
- Industrial distributors are typically not on the technological cutting edge. Mobile and ecommerce are having quite an impact, though.In a Modern Distribution Management article, Jonathan Bein and Robert ...
- 9. How Sustainable are My Suppliers?
- (Retail)
- ... with whom I do business treat sustainability, especially as it relates to their supply chains. Among those I researched were Target, Food Lion, Amazon.com, Grainger, and WalMart. All describe sustainability ...
- 10. Customer Perspective on Amazon Supply
- (News)
- It's always interesting to read commentary from the perspective of those on a different side of an issue. We've seen a number of articles about Amazon Supply from its competitors' side.What does the actual ...
- 11. Is Amazon Making Waves?
- (News)
- Are 'traditional' industrial distributors quaking in their boots over the entry of Amazon Supply into their space? Or is Amazon only a price play with no value-add?In a Supply House Times article, Eric ...
- 12. The Amazon Effect on Distributors
- (Supply)
- ... industrial distributors. So, let’s get more specific and take a look at a company that’s expected to be affected by the Amazon Supply announcement, Grainger (disclosure: I retired from Grainger after ...
- 13. MRO Inventory Management Ideas
- (News)
- MRO inventory is a different animal. Is there room for improvement? Susan Avery on the My Purchasing Center site talks about a recent webcast that covered ideas on how to approach the challenges of ...
- 14. eCommerce Makes Progress in Industrial Sales
- (News)
- Adoption of eCommerce by manufacturers and industrial distributors has been slow but is picking up steam. Achinta Mitra in Industrial Marketing Today gives examples of how these market segments differ ...
- 15. Amazon Threat
- (News)
- Amazon's big announcement of its move into B2B supplies continues to have repercussions among its competitors. Check out what they're saying in Sean Callahan's article in B2B here. It'll be quite interesting ...
- 16. Amazon's Big Announcemen
- (News)
- Amazon is adding a capability that will ratchet up the competition for business-to-business MRO. Time will tell what the impact will be on key players like Staples, Grainger, and Graybar. Jason Busch ...
- 17. B2B Web Trends
- (News)
- Businesses continue to increase their use of the internet to gain market share. That's a lot of data integration magic happening! Internet Retailer talks about the tremendous growth in B2B ecommerce ...
- 18. MRO and EDI- a Good Match?
- (Retail)
- ... with customers buying MRO supplies from us. That may sound like a lot, but it means that far more customers purchase from us using more ‘traditional’ methods like ordering over the phone, using the Grainger.com ...
- 19. On The Line - Michael Martz
- (Retail)
- Our latest On The Line interview is with Michael Martz, Director of eBusiness Operations for Grainger. Michael explains how his position and EDI in general work to support Grainger's focus on customer ...
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