Industry Insights
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How Specialty Building Products is Building a Bridge Between Generations
Learn about SBP’s philosophy that happy, purpose-driven employees are the foundation of company success.
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Why “Top Down” No Longer Works in a Post-Pandemic World
Hierarchy? Command and control? Short-term thinking? Money as the only motivator? Those no longer create the results they once did.
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How NAW is Promoting Cooperation in Uncertain Times
Hoplin shares distributors’ key concerns and how NAW is working to support distributors.
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AFFLINK Announces New VP of Supply Chain Solutions
Dana Duckworth will be the VP of Supply Chain Solutions for AFFLINK, a Performance Food Group subsidiary.
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US LBM Names New Senior Vice President of Supply Chain
Steve Short succeeds Pat Managan as SVP of Supply Chain after his retirement.
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ABC Supply Opens New Location in Montana
The distributor of roofing, siding and other building products opens its second location in Montana.
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The 4 Drivers of Ongoing Supply Chain Disruption in 2022
Labor shortages, port congestion and manufacturing delays are throwing off the supply chain’s delicate balance. Higher demand for products is exacerbating supply chain challenges.
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Webinar: How to Manage and Recover from Supply Chain Disruptions (March 23, 2022)
In this webinar, we presented the findings from our survey and added our own expertise so you can learn the best practices to detect, manage and recover from disruption.
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Distributors Must Go Beyond ‘Price and Availability’ to Remain Relevant to Manufacturers
Having robust digital capabilities is no longer optional for distributors who want to retain channel share.
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What’s Driving the Supply Chain Crisis, and How Distributors Can Navigate It
Helgi Leja, of Distribution Performance Solutions, and Bruce Strahan, of Argon & Co., talk about managing through a supply chain crisis like the one we are facing right now.
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Wholesale Change: How to Manage Through the Supply Chain Crisis (October 13, 2021)
Product shortages, supply-chain delays, hard-to-find labor – what are the best practices in navigating through the current supply chain madness?
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Burned But Not Destroyed: How Crises Foster Innovation
Recently, the Atlantic posted a story about the resilience of human societies in the face of disaster. The author made a strong historical argument that disasters have, in fact, stoked the development of modern cities.
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Want to Succeed with Industrial Vending? Stop Making These 5 Mistakes
Read about five common mistakes distributors make when considering and offering vending and inventory control solutions, and how to overcome them.
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Blockchain in Supply Chain Management: Why You Should Care
This post summarizes some of the key findings in the second report based on our research for the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors into how technology will transform the wholesale distribution industry.
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Only Bad Leaders Qualify for ‘Undercover Boss’
If you hide so well – in your office or among your own employees – that your employees can’t recognize you, then you are not prominent in your own company and you aren’t a leader.
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Is ‘Fulfillment by Amazon’ the Beginning of the End for Distributors?
Distributors worry that Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is assuming key distributor roles and erasing them from the equation. The service picks, packs, ships and even manages returns for retailers and distributors, as well as holds inventory in Amazon fulfillment centers.
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Want to Differentiate Your Value-Added Services? Go Beyond Logistics
Understanding and monetizing value-added services in wholesale distribution is critical to competing today. But many distributors tend to have a limited worldview when it comes to which services they provide.
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Wholesale Change Show: Does “Fulfillment by Amazon” Mean the Death of Distributors? (June 24, 2020)
If Amazon Business owns the customer, warehouses your products, does the picking, packing and shipping and handles the entire transaction – why do they need you?