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Distributors looking to balance renewed focus on their core with meeting customer demand to provide more are turning to master distributors to achieve that end. This article looks at how the role of master distributors has evolved and the additional roles they now play for traditional distributors.
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- How distributors use masters
- Additional benefits master distributors provide
- How masters are elevating their traditional role
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Gain a competitive advantage through strategic investment and planning.
U.S. supply chains evolve to changing demand.
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Distributors can benefit from rethinking how they do business. And General Motor's investment in Lyft provides a few timely lessons on this.
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Substantial investment is necessary to reap benefits of integration.
For more than a quarter of a century, MDM has covered the complex and changing landscape of integrated supply in distribution. This article, an update to the 2010 report, shows distributors the value of offering integrated supply while outlining the challenges they must overcome.
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- The maturing model of integrated supply
- How technology is improving integration
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Waste in warehouses comes in all shapes and sizes.
Proper planning can help distributors avoid disastrous interruptions.
Sides reach tentative labor agreement, but delays likely for a while.
The real issue may be somewhere you're not looking.
If even labor strife ends, supply chain slowdown could persist for months.
Federal government to send a mediator to move stalled negotiations forward.
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This article, based on the 2014 MDM Industry Outlook Survey, outlines and analyzes key trends and issues affecting how distributors will do business in 2015.
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- E-commerce and other technology challenges.
- Finding and training "qualified workers."
- Port slowdown causing inventory management disruptions.
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List highlights the importance of keeping the needs and wants of customers first.
Being "lean and mean" with inventory can lead to profitability.
Monday meeting fails to deliver labor contract resolution.
Delays at West Coast ports disrupting companies' supply chains.
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