Distribution Events
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AI, Tech, & Digital Commerce
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Optimum7 Adds Bulk Ordering, Technical Search Tools for Distributors
The company also has added search capabilities that allow customers to find products using stock keeping units, part numbers, fitment information, and technical specifications.
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Hills Distribution Expands Beyond Northeast with National Ecommerce Push
Brooklyn, New York-based PEXUniverse is a pure-play ecommerce distributor of plumbing, heating and HVAC parts and supplies
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Ransomware Attacks on Distributors Rise as Midmarket Companies Bear the Brunt
Black Kite’s data shows that ransomware attacks in distribution are concentrated among companies well below the industry’s largest enterprises.
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Ransomware Surge Raises Supply Chain Risks for Distributors
The concentration of attacks among midsized companies could be particularly significant for distributors because those businesses frequently operate as manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers within larger supply chains.
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Your Best People Are Retiring, But Your Best New Hire Is AI
The distributors, wholesalers and merchants that frame AI this way are already pulling ahead. The ones still running AI primarily as an IT project risk losing twice: first the people, then the knowledge they take with them.
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Lowe’s Reshuffles Executive Team as It Pushes Pro, AI Growth
Lowe’s has been building out its Pro capabilities with expanded product access, digital quoting and purchasing tools, job-lot quantities, and direct-to-jobsite delivery.
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AI, Reshoring Fuel New Wave of U.S. Industrial Demand
Morgan Stanley Real Assets said the U.S. industrial market appears to be moving from a cyclical recovery toward another growth cycle, with demand accelerating while development remains constrained.
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The Two-Quarter Window: Why European Distribution Leaders Have to Move on AI Now
The next two quarters provide enough time to do something tangible: Choose a bottleneck, establish ownership, put a use case into production, and measure the result.
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AI Moves into the Distributor Order Desk as New Tools Target Manual Work
The common thread is significant for distributors. Rather than asking employees to use a separate AI assistant, the technology is increasingly being built into the systems where orders are received, customers are managed and transactions are processed.
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Toolbx Launches AI Order Entry for Building Supply Distributors
Dealers can train the system to recognize their products, customers and internal shorthand, and the matching rules adjust as the system processes additional material lists.