Tomorrow’s Warehouses … Powered by AI
There’s lots of talk regarding AI. Many wondering “what are others doing” and asking “what should / can I do? As well as “where can it help me ‘the most’?” …
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Is your proven experienced associate led pricing model approaching a cliff?
If your winning pricing model is still being led by just your experienced sales team, it is probably time to make changes for the future. I had the opportunity to …
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Improving Pricing and Inventory Knowledge with HARDI Certification
I believe one of the biggest challenges as distributor is managing pricing and inventory effectively because you can be handicapped by your own internal viewpoints. Your culture as a distributor …
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Driving Distributor Profitability Through Operational Efficiency
The “go-go” days of post-Covid are gone. We’re back to pre-pandemic industry growth rates. Maintaining, and improving, net profitability in the face of slowing growth, increased cost structure, and stagnant …
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Increasing Warehouse Output While Managing Costs
With business returning to a more “normal” pace, defined as “slow growth” looking forward, leading distributors are focused on improving the operational / warehouse aspects of their business. While national …
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Is AI Coming to Your Warehouse?
The technology topic of the year in distribution has been, and will continue to be, AI. In reality, much of AI is really ML (machine learning) but it’s not as …
7 Warehouse Tips to Improve Customer Satisfaction
Dick Friedman, a warehouse productivity improvement \”guru\” with much experience working with electrical distributors shares thoughts distributors should consider as there becomes the proverbial \”light at the end of the …
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Warehouse and Purchasing Considerations as Distributors Comeback
As business begins to improve and distributors reopen counters and bring back some staff, questions arise regard purchasing, staffing, warehouse management and \”operations\” in general. While business for many is …
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SPAs- Are they Worth the Cost?
In a penny nickel business, every penny counts. Which is why SPAs can matter. Increasing gross margins and, more importantly, net profitability, in today’s environment is extremely challenging. Publicly-held national …
FedEx to Live without Amazon. Lessons for Distributors
Last month FedEx announced that they won’t renew a ground-delivery deal they had with Amazon to provide small-package ground deliveries. This follows FedEx’s announcement that it wouldn’t renew Amazon’s FedEx …
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