How One Distributor Embraced Cloud Tech to Tackle Unique Industry Challenges

You’ve heard many times by now that one-size-fits-all isn’t a great approach for an industry as diverse as wholesale distribution. The U.S. Census Bureau identifies 19 product sectors in the industry that are segmented into 109 discrete subsectors — each with challenges, quirks and nuances that make broad-based technology solutions suboptimal. I recently sat down with

, who spent more than three decades designing ERP systems that were specific to the flooring industry before serving as an industry technology consultant. He recently worked with the

— a North Americ…