MDM News Digest 4724
News briefs from December 11 - December 25, 2017
News briefs from December 11 - December 25, 2017
Modern Distribution Management's monthly Industrial Inflation Index measures a cross-section of industrial supplies.
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Sales and inventories data for wholesaler-distributors in October 2017.
The Institute for Supply Management provides a semiannual forecast that distributors can use to gauge the health and expectations of manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. This article provides the highlights from the latest forecast, which was released in December.
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Amazon Business represents more than a new competitor its an entirely new business model. To address new rules Amazon continually rewrites for traditional channel competition, distributors need to develop new strategies. This article, part 4 in our series, outlines key response alternatives for distributors and the industry collectively to define value, keep customers engaged and avoid displacement.This article includes:
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Innovation will alter competitive dynamics. Selling products that are highly technical is a pretty good strategy to keep Amazon Business at bay today. But for how long will that be good enough? Thats the type of question every distributor needs to ask right now.Subscribers should log in below to read this article.
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Distributor fortunes improved last year and are projected to continue through the first half of 2018 but the rest of the year remains uncertain, as economists project the economy to slow in the third and fourth quarters before enduring a more drastic decline in 2019.This article includes:
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This increase follows a 0.4 percent October decrease.