Business metrics and AI can be a potent combo. Here’s a closer look at the most important metrics distributors should be measuring today and how they can use AI to recommend the next best actions...
With 2023’s final wholesale trade numbers accounted for, see how the sector fared compared to previous years, and our latest 2024-2025 revenue expecations by industry vertical.
The restructuring includes a voluntary retirement offer and “rationalization and optimization” of certain DCs, stores and other facilities.
With cyber attacks being a matter of when rather than if it happens to you, Nick Pericle concludes his 3-part series here with initial response steps to take when your organization suffers an attack and...
While 4Q volume fell in certain verticals, Wesco said it saw growth in industrial, utility, data center and network infrastructure.
Distributors won’t be able to pass along price increases in 2024 at nearly the rate of 2021-2023. So, the 4Q23 Baird-MDM Survey asked distributors how they see supplier pricing impacting gross margin.
Using charts from our 4Q23 Baird-MDM Survey conducted in the first half of January, we illustrate what this year’s sales growth expectations are for distributors across five key customer end markets.
NAW’s 2024 Executive Summit was its most well-attended such event in years, and its content delivered in spades. This episode features interviews with attendees on their top takeaways, initiatives & more.
Find a wealth of data and analysis extracted from the 4Q23 Baird-MDM Industrial Distribution Survey, including trending charts and figures for revenue and expectations, plus plenty of interesting commentary.
Presented at NAW’s Executive Summit, the accolade recognizes the efforts of wholesaler-distributors and individual efforts to benefit the industry and those within it.
Sources told the Wall Street Journal that a Consumer Protection Safety Commission vote could make Amazon liable for the safety of third-party products.
In the past 2 years, Singer Industrial divested a business unit, rebranded, made over a dozen acquisitions and added plenty of greenfields. CEO Craig Osborne tells us how his company has handled it all.
