Events

B2B marketplace industry is expected to reach $3.6 trillion in sales by 2024, up from $680 billion in 2018 (DC 360, 2023). This highlights the growing importance of marketplaces in the distribution space and underscores the need for companies to embrace this model of third-party commerce in order to remain competitive and capture a share of this growing market.

For existing B2B commerce operators, now is an exciting time to consider transforming your ecommerce experience into a marketplace ecosystem, rapidly expanding categories, aggregating inventory, and elevating your position within the industry.

So join our expert panel hosted by Tom Gale (MDM) and featuring Tom McFadyen (McFadyen Digital CEO * Author of Marketplace Best Practices), along with distribution industry marketplace leaders as they discuss the evolving landscape of marketplaces, highlighting key strategies for success in this dynamic sector.

Learning how to optimize your eCommerce strategy through interconnected sales channels and data-driven decision-making is essential to maximize your ROI. But there is an abundance of different aspects that must be considered to do so. Join Kristen Thom, VP of Product at White Cup, to delve into the different pieces of strategy to focus on when maximizing your eCommerce.

This webcast will uncover valuable insights into analyzing customer behavior and overall sales trends and demonstrate how to establish correlations between eCommerce behavior and broader sales outcomes. Don’t miss this opportunity on Aug. 17 to uncover the hidden potential of your eCommerce business through data-driven insights and seamless channel integration.

After two straight bumper revenue years, the distribution sector is navigating a slower-but-solid 2023, while 2024 forecasts call for a slowdown. Join Baird’s David Manthey and MDM’s Tom Gale as they analyze economic conditions and the demand outlook for the rest of this year and beyond. The webcast will feature brand new data and insights from the 2Q23 Baird-MDM Industrial Distribution Survey.

This program breaks down the latest economic trends, emerging growth opportunities, what to watch out for and how distributors can capitalize on the current competitive landscape.

Distributors have quickly learned in recent years — sometimes the hard way — that keeping up with the pace of customers’ rapidly-evolving buying experience expectations is crucial to winning or maintaining business. The proliferation of AI and self-service tools have only made things more interesting, and complicated. This webcast will analyze MDM and Infor’s latest research benchmarks on distributors’ technology utilization in this area compared to a year ago, along with insights from distributor panelists about how they are navigating the CX journey.

Despite challenged supply chains, a difficult labor environment and whispers of a looming industrial slowdown, wholesale distributors rode the inflation wave to a bumper revenue year in 2022. This led to considerable jumps in year-to-year revenues charted across MDM’s 2023 Top Distributors Lists. Join this free webcast as Executive Editor Mike Hockett provides the first look at our rankings in various industries, slotted by their latest fiscal revenues within each industry. We’ll examine the key factors and moves that led certain distributors to see major movement on our lists, including a few companies that made first-time appearances.

As distributors navigate market instability, margin protection discipline is paramount. Join us for a webinar featuring Tony Pericle, the architect of distributor solutions that have generated over $1 billion in profit in the past two years. In this webinar, Tony will share practical examples of how distributors can maximize profitability, including best practices for pricing, cost management, and work-flow optimization. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a proven industry expert and discover how to build a resilient business that can weather any storm and emerge stronger than ever.