- 21. Go With The Flow: Streamlining Your Supply Chain Flow with AI
- (Integration)
- ... AI algorithms can be used to develop data sets about suppliers, manufacturing sites, or distributors that make recommendations, form predictions, and monitor integrated systems. Where humans conduct the ...
- 22. Teenage Truckers, Solution to Nation’s Shipping Woes?
- (News)
- ... legislation,” said Mark Allen, president and CEO of the International Foodservice Distributors Association, “creates opportunity while reinforcing a culture of safety to provide our nation’s youth with ...
- 23. Distributors Improve by Integrating ERP
- (News)
- ... with supply chains.In an article on the Industrial Distribution site, Stefan Hoffman describes how distributors are adding value to their businesses through their system implementations. Check it out ...
- 24. Outsourcing EDI Is The Way To Go, Says Expert
- (Management)
- ... is the predominant communication tool incorporating retailers, suppliers, distributors and manufacturers,” says Davis. Because most companies aren’t adept at translating the complicated language of the ...
- 25. Integrating 3pl with Omnichannel Sales Can be a Big Plus
- (Integration)
- ... and logistic services to retailers, wholesalers and distributors needing help to get their product to their customers. In fact, they also house your operation’s inventory and fill orders, so you don’t ...
- 26. Distributors and Sustainability
- (News)
- The distribution industry is getting greener, according to an article by Michael Wilson on the Environmental Leader site. From packaging decisions to requirements placed on manufacturer partners, distributors ...
- 27. Distributors and Technology
- (News)
- In an industry (industrial distribution) not known for its cutting edge technology, efficiency and 'the wow factor' are big differentiators. But how do you get there? By using technology, naturally!In ...
- 28. What is Amazon Supply Doing?
- (Blogs)
- ... to mesh with their processes, and who value the services provided by distributors as part of their relationship, are. It gets back to a key difference between B2C and B2B purchasers. B2B is all about process, ...
- 29. Lean for Distributors
- (News)
- If you're a wholesale distributor who is considered a move to an ERP system, there's another tool out there to consider. Lean processes plus ERP is a powerful combination.Check out Paul Myerson's blog ...
- 30. That Darn UOM Problem
- (Management)
- ... the same thing. They have lots of customers and too many products, so they can’t keep a cross reference for every partner. Our problem is that we buy lots of MRO items from lots of distributors and we ...
- 31. 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 ...
- 32. This is the Year for B2B
- (News)
- Ryan Ruud, in a Yahoo Small Business Advisor column, describes 2013 as the "Year for B2B eCommerce". He has some ideas on how to take advantage of that.Read his article that provides some simple remin
- 33. 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 ...
- 34. B2B2C2B2B.... Huh?
- (News)
- It seems that B2C ecommerce continues to exert an influence on the B2B world. What used to seem like two different worlds isn't like that anymore. On the GXS blog site, Matthew Walker shares his thoughts ...
- 35. E-Commerce for Components
- (News)
- The B2B market for electronic components is beginning to embrace ecommerce in a big way. The promises of efficiency and cost effectiveness are becoming realized. Anne Ting on EBN describes how this evolution ...
- 36. Do Sustainability the Right Way
- (News)
- Can you get a decent ROI on your supply chain sustainability efforts? You bet you can! In a Forbes blog, Richard Crespin discusses the results of some recent research on the subject. Be sure to click ...
- 37. The Amazon Effect on Distributors
- (Supply)
- ... those poor industrial distributors? Will they go the way of the buggy whip, typewriter, and bookstore, or will they survive the onslaught of the feared Amazon machine? Well, although it’s early and little ...
- 38. From the Top - Scott Bolduc - SPS Commerce
- (Supply)
- ... something like that would. Retailers or distributors just don't want to have that inventory there. They want the vendors to have maintained that instead. They still want the opportunity to make those sales. ...
- 39. From the Top - Scott Bolduc - SPS Commerce
- (Retail)
- ... something like that would. Retailers or distributors just don't want to have that inventory there. They want the vendors to have maintained that instead. They still want the opportunity to make those sales. ...
- 40. From the Top - Scott Bolduc - SPS Commerce
- (Logistics)
- ... something like that would. Retailers or distributors just don't want to have that inventory there. They want the vendors to have maintained that instead. They still want the opportunity to make those sales. ...
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