How Manufacturers and Distributors Can Build an Agile Supply Chain for the Post-Pandemic Era
Slowly but surely, the world is reopening. Factories are catching up on backlogs, and supply chains are rumbling back to life. Despite these positive signs, no one is suggesting we go back to business as usual. Wholesale distributors and manufacturers…
The Strategic Supply Chain Role of the Post-Pandemic CFO
Manufacturers and distributors find themselves amidst a new set of post-pandemic challenges. Demand is sky-high, costs are volatile, labor is scarce, and over-stressed supply chains struggle to get back up to speed. In fact, with so much disruption to global…
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The Supply and Demand Roller Coaster — How Manufacturers and Distributors Can Stop the Ride
At the height of the pandemic, demand for many goods and services tanked. Restaurants and retailers shuttered and millions were out of work. Today, we seem to have the opposite problem. Demand is sky-high, supplies are limited, and skilled workers…
Post-Pandemic Supply Chain Challenges: How Manufacturers and Distributors can Grow Amidst Uncertainty
The pandemic revealed significant vulnerabilities in supply chains around the world. The challenge now is to build them back — better. The coronavirus pandemic disrupted supply chains around the world. Almost instantly, we saw lead times and prices jump while…
Key Strategies to Grow Profits in Manufacturing
Many growing manufacturing businesses operate with fixed budgets and finite resources. Forced to put out daily fires, fulfill the most pressing customer requests and manage customer issues, managers don’t always have the time or energy to develop—and put into action—new…
Are You Losing Money with Inefficient Warehouse Operations?
Whether you’re a small distributor, a mid-size manufacturer or even a large retailer, warehouse optimization should be the top-most concern as no other area of the business can deliver greater gains in efficiency, accuracy, speed, customer service, and ultimately profitability….
Project Spotlight: How JR’s POS Depot is Forging Ahead with Net at Work and Acumatica
JR’s POS Depot are distributors of a full complement of point-of-sale equipment to financial institutions and gateway partners. Founded more than 20 years ago, JR’s POS Depot has a well-earned reputation for providing a wide-range of equipment coupled with value-added…
Mastering eCommerce and Omnichannel as a Distributor
Wholesale customers want and expect the same kind of convenience and immediate gratification that you want as a consumer. Meeting these demands is difficult using antiquated, disparate systems that weren’t designed to tackle the rigors of today’s eCommerce and Omnichannel…
5 Reasons Wholesale Distributors Can’t Master Ecommerce and Omnichannel
To compete effectively in the digital selling environment, wholesale distributors need robust, user-friendly ecommerce storefronts and omnichannel platforms that can meet the needs of B2C and B2B customers that want their orders fulfilled accurately within one or two days. Meeting…
CRM For Manufacturing: 3 Key Areas that Directly Impact Operational Performance
Many manufacturing firms have made investments in Manufacturing CRM Software to help manage their sales processes. They’ve put in place opportunity and quoting management, activity tracking and often analytic tools to measure potential sales and pipeline. As a result, most…
