October 25 2008
Volume 38, Issue 20 - 10/25/2008
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The construction industry has been hit hard by the severe downturn in the housing market and the 160 member companies that make up the AMAROK Drywall Distributor Network are no exception. While a number of distributors are holding their own, others have seen business fall off so much that they have struggled to cover overhead.
Strike two: When builders started to file for bankruptcy and were unable to pay their subcontractors, the distributors'receivables fell off dramatically. Receivables have improved, but the distributors are now facing a third strike: the ...
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Sometimes a wake-up call is healthy; panic never is. Anyone who experienced the media's lack of understanding and coverage of the last recession at the beginning of this decade have a large and healthy degree of skepticism about what we see on TV and read in newspapers about the current crisis. But the reality gap is at its greatest right now. Fear and speculation are driving sound bites about how bad it might get.
As the lead ...
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This is part of a series looking at the distribution software industry. This article examines the role the Internet is playing in driving change in the way distributors do business.
In the last decade, the Internet has been one of the key drivers of technology development.
The Internet is the backbone today for anybody that's in distribution, anybody in the supply chain and supply chain execution,"Rod Winger, Epicor's director of product marketing. "You could not do what we do today without the Internet."
e-Commerce
The emphasis on having information available anytime from anywhere has been a driving force behind many companies'moving into the realm of e-commerce, doing business with suppliers and ...
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This article looks at the growing market for pricing software in distribution.
For many distributors, managing inventory through software was a significant shift in how they viewed the strategic use of technology. Next up: Pricing.
Thanks to economic uncertainty and volatile costs, pricing is top of mind for many distributors right now as a strategy to preserve and expand gross margin. "The way I think of it is this: In the old days, distributors learned how to manage their inventory using computer systems," says Tim Reynolds, president of Tribute Inc., a software provider to fluid power and hose distributors that also provides a pricing function. "If you have 20,000 SKUs, you can't do it in ...
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84 Lumber has announced 20 more store closings, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The building materials distributors closed nine stores a few weeks ago. The company now has 335 stores, down from 400. More
Cummins-Wagner Co., Inc., Annapolis Junction, MD, a distributor of industrial process equipment and HVAC equipment in the Mid-Atlantic region, has acquired Rochester, NY-based Siewert ...
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The construction industry has been hit hard by the severe downturn in the housing market and the 160 member companies that make up the AMAROK Drywall Distributor Network are no exception. While a number of distributors are holding their own, others have seen business fall off so much that they have struggled to cover overhead.
Strike two: When builders started to file for bankruptcy and were unable to pay their subcontractors, the distributors'receivables fell off dramatically. Receivables have improved, but the distributors are now facing a third strike: the ...
- Premium
Sometimes a wake-up call is healthy; panic never is. Anyone who experienced the media's lack of understanding and coverage of the last recession at the beginning of this decade have a large and healthy degree of skepticism about what we see on TV and read in newspapers about the current crisis. But the reality gap is at its greatest right now. Fear and speculation are driving sound bites about how bad it might get.
As the lead ...
- Premium
This is part of a series looking at the distribution software industry. This article examines the role the Internet is playing in driving change in the way distributors do business.
In the last decade, the Internet has been one of the key drivers of technology development.
The Internet is the backbone today for anybody that's in distribution, anybody in the supply chain and supply chain execution,"Rod Winger, Epicor's director of product marketing. "You could not do what we do today without the Internet."
e-Commerce
The emphasis on having information available anytime from anywhere has been a driving force behind many companies'moving into the realm of e-commerce, doing business with suppliers and ...
- Premium
This article looks at the growing market for pricing software in distribution.
For many distributors, managing inventory through software was a significant shift in how they viewed the strategic use of technology. Next up: Pricing.
Thanks to economic uncertainty and volatile costs, pricing is top of mind for many distributors right now as a strategy to preserve and expand gross margin. "The way I think of it is this: In the old days, distributors learned how to manage their inventory using computer systems," says Tim Reynolds, president of Tribute Inc., a software provider to fluid power and hose distributors that also provides a pricing function. "If you have 20,000 SKUs, you can't do it in ...
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84 Lumber has announced 20 more store closings, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The building materials distributors closed nine stores a few weeks ago. The company now has 335 stores, down from 400. More
Cummins-Wagner Co., Inc., Annapolis Junction, MD, a distributor of industrial process equipment and HVAC equipment in the Mid-Atlantic region, has acquired Rochester, NY-based Siewert ...
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