Former Amazon team member and Amazon seller consultant Alan Adams speaks with Tom Gale on Amazon Business from an insider’s perspective. This podcast references MDM’s Amazon Business Forum conference, held in December 2018, that explored strategy and effective tactics for both partnering with and competing with Amazon Business.

Disruption, distribution M&A and shifting value propositions. After selling his family’s paper distribution business 20 years ago, Brent Grover has been a consultant and prolific author on pricing, M&A and creating value in wholesale distribution businesses. Brent talks with MDM’s Tom Gale on the next phase of his career and his take on the current challenges in the industry.

MDM’s Ian Heller and John Gunderson talk shop. What’s on the minds of distribution executives? In spite of a record year for most sectors of wholesale distribution in 2018, there is a growing sense of volatility across many areas – pricing, inflation, global trade, tariffs and an increasingly tough labor market. Industry veterans and MDM President Ian Heller and MDM VP of Analytics John Gunderson discuss what they’re hearing from the front lines of distribution.

Dan Hill, President of Newark element14 and Becky McMorrow, Director of Marketing Newark element14 speak with MDM’s John Gunderson about how to build an Omni Channel experience to take share and grow business.

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Mike Marks, Managing Partner of Indian River Consulting Group (IRCG) talks with MDM’s Tom Gale about the ways 2018 is being defined as the tipping point for digital transformation in distribution across all aspects of distribution organizations.

MDM’s exclusive interview reveals many facets of Amazon’s customer-first strategy. Prentis Wilson, VP of Amazon Business, speaks with MDM’s Tom Gale about Amazon Business’s value proposition for distributors, current strategic initiatives and how he sees the customer defining the future of supply chains.