Amazon is experimenting this holiday season with an inventory storage service called Amazon Storage and Replenishment. The service provides Amazon's merchants with cheap storage space near its fulfillment centers to ensure seamless order delivery during peak selling seasons.
Tech Data has acquired DLT Solutions for an undisclosed price, which is expected to help it with public sector clients. Tech Data is expected to be bought by Apollo Global Management pending shareholder approval and an open-offer period expiring Monday.
Build Scalable Same-Day Delivery Nationwide More than 50% of customers will switch to a competitor that offers faster delivery. To stay competitive, augment your logistics network and scale same-day delivery nationwide. Unlock the insights to building a nationwide same-day service in this guide.
Business-to-business sellers' websites often fail to provide compelling experiences, with just 36% of buyers rating the B2B websites they've used during the past six months as good or excellent in a recent Digital Commerce 360 B2B survey. Buyers rated customer service, fair pricing and order tracking among their priorities.
InRiver Chief Marketing Officer Steve Gershik talks about his career in business-to-business marketing and the technologies that are vital for delivering the superior experiences expected by prospects. "As organizations use AI and data to stay relevant to their buyers in real-time, they need automation to ensure they are being fully adaptive to meet those needs," he says.
[WEBINAR] Prepping for 2020 Register for the webinar on Thursday, December 5th at 2 PM EST. Experts from Netsuite and Deloitte will discuss 2020 trends and technologies that will drive business, how to respond to a growing demand for price transparency, why now is the time to invest in updating back-office systems and more.
End your next meeting by asking what actions can be taken now -- even small steps -- and setting deadlines, writes Dan Rockwell. "Clarity happens when you get off the stool of do-nothing," he writes.
Unaddressed conflict at work can lead to hard feelings and even becoming enemies with the other person, writes Marlene Chism. Self-awareness helps, as you can recognize your feelings and address the situation rather than sink into your biases.
Don't miss the NAW 2020 Executive Summit: INNOVATE TO DOMINATE, Jan. 28-30! Our program will provide for you a road map to innovation as you peer into the future of wholesale distribution, explore marketplace platforms, and examine the points of view of today's brightest business experts and next-generation distribution entrepreneurs who are creating new business models to satisfy industry and customer needs, and create new demand. Get ready to network with other best-in-class distributors. Register today.
The October kickoff meeting was so popular that the NAW Institute and Texas A&M are holding a second kickoff meeting Jan. 23, so more companies can participate in our groundbreaking Digitizing the Sales Process Consortium. Distributors: This is your opportunity to contribute to this fundamental research on how distributors will determine which portions of the sales process will be digitized. Learn more here; if you're interested, you have to register soon, because only four seats are available.
"Unlock the Power of Inventory Analytics: Aligning Working Capital to Customer Experience to Maximize Your Bottom Line" is based on 15 years of distribution research. It reveals the fundamentals and contemporary practices for designing the role of inventory in this era of ever-evolving new business models. You'll receive an inventory management framework, customer service metrics, a step-by-step implementation approach, real-world distributor case studies and a plan-of-action road map. Take a look by reading the introduction.
