The past year was one of uncertainty for the industry. But distribution leaders joined MDM throughout 2022 to rise above talking points and show a way forward in the next year and beyond.
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MDM concludes its year-end retrospective series with a look back at our top news items from 2022.
We continue our year-end retrospective series with a look back at MDM's top Premium content of 2022.
Tom Gale takes an appreciative look forward to 2023, highlighting some exciting things we have in store for the year ahead.
How will 2022’s biggest distribution trends and factors evolve in the year ahead? Here, we chat with Wipfli’s manufacturing and distribution partner about the technology, supply chain and labor issues that will matter most in 2023, and how curiosity may be the best way to attack them.
Leaders from Vallen Distribution, Stanley Black & Decker, LineDrive and Ace Hardware share their insights captured during interviews at ISA’s Women in Industry Summit, which was part of ISA's Fall Summit held Nov. 30-Dec. 2 in Orlando. They discuss what’s best left behind in 2022 and where the industry is moving in 2023.
Focusing on eCommerce in past years, AD's Dec. 5-7 event brought in the marketing side for the first time. Mike Hockett shares his biggest takeaways from attending.
Amazon Business' scale and capabilities are intimidating. But as Benj Cohen advises here, distributors can fight fire with fire.
Dirk Beveridge discusses how the distribution industry and its workforce have changed, and that industry leaders need to follow suit.
White Cup's Brian Friedle spoke on the importance of technology and data-driven sales decision-making during MDM's latest webcast. Here's a recap.
In the weeks and months leading up to MDM's SHIFT conference, podcast guests spoke on a variety of topics, with transformative strategies and evolving roles among the most discussed.
Whether you attended or not, get a general recap of what happened at MDM's Sept. 25-27 SHIFT conference and the value it provided to the distribution community.
Our latest QuickTake podcast discusses how distributors’ roles go beyond reacting to threats and opportunities that many have been preoccupied with since the pandemic arrived.
There's an old saying that GPS has gotten more people into trouble than out of trouble. They lose sight of the bigger picture. The same can be said for investments in technology and other big change projects
Martin Supply President and ISA Chairman David Ruggles stops by to discuss digital initiatives from both his company and the association, as well as progress the greater industrial distribution sector has made on that front.
Fastenal, MSC Industrial Supply, MRC Global and more have voiced considerable optimism despite numerous economic red flags.
Our latest podcast focuses on maintaining perspective and paying attention to actions and tangible data amid all the broad economic downturn talk.
IRCG's Mike Marks provides perspective amid all the volatility, uncertainty, chaos and ambiguity that have escalated following pessimistic economic reports.
MDM's Tom Gale and Indian River Consulting's Mike Marks discuss what's in store for distributors in 2022's second half.
Change is hard. So is dealing with relentless disruption. But with those as the new normal, distributors must lean into the challenges involved.
