Mike Slater previously served as a general manager at Arrow Electronics and has more than 25 years of sales and management experience.
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Patrick S. Watson, current VP of finance and corporate controller, will take over as vice president and chief financial officer.
It's the third acquisition Solve has made in the past year, including recent additions of Bearings Limited and SST Bearing Corporation.
PIP said the deal expands its operations in southern and eastern Europe by adding more than 215,000 square feet of warehouse space.
The pneumatic manufacturing company is expected to strengthen Bailey’s North American infrastructure and help support customers globally.
U.S. manufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits in the first quarter of 2022 totaled $261.9 billion.
Kansas-based Level5 is expected to join Worthington’s collection of tools for both professionals and DIYers.
'XPS complements our significant recent investments in the e-commerce fulfillment and shipping space,” Descartes’ CEO says.
On June 8, Winsupply will hold its grand opening for a new regional distribution center just south of Oklahoma City.
The company says the deal will play a critical role in PDI’s Southeastern expansion plans by expanding locations in Georgia.
It comes a month after a merger between Lawson, TestEquity and Gexpro Services and a week after Lawson reported strong 1Q earnings.
Today’s podcast and summary in this edition of MDM Update is Elizabeth Galentine's last contribution for MDM. We’re sorry to see her go but excited for the next opportunity she is pursuing. Elizabeth has been MDM’s editor-in-chief for four years and has guided our content through very disruptive times. (She banned the team’s use of "unprecedented" to describe events of 2020.) That’s just one example of her thoughtful approach to cutting through noise and jargon — one of the hallmarks of our coverage of this industry since 1967. The team at MDM will miss her, and we wish her the best in her next venture!
The industrial distributors Director of Organizational Development Cory Calderon sees a post-pandemic future with a hybrid remote/onsite work environment, contingent upon scalable software applications and technology upgrades.
In many cases, distributor sales people report that they cant remember the last time they have reviewed their pricing with their leaders. MDMs John Gunderson shares five steps pricing teams take to maintain margins.
In a recent MDM webcast, Navigating the New Now as a Distributor, Epicors Emma Vas and Mark Jensen discussed key trends that are emerging to help distribution companies thrive. Distributors are finding ways to boost revenue, negotiate supplier relationships, optimize inventory and streamline social distancing.
More than 13,000 health care and 7,000 government organizations have purchased PPE and other supplies through COVID-19 Supplies site on Amazon Business.
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Some distributors are updating their price segmentation schemes to ensure they reflect these evolving conditions by overlaying a COVID-19 demand category attribute to complement traditional segmentation schemes.
Optimize search results, facilitate up-sells and cross-sells, promote items that need to turn quickly and elevate private-label products all ways distributors can use AI to transform websites from order-taking to order-making assets.
