Transform the customer experience, manage costs, and grow revenue — all with artificial intelligence (AI). It sounds like science fiction, but the benefits of AI are grounded and catching on with today’s biggest digital leaders.

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In a recent survey, distribution industry leaders shared their insights on the power of document automation and its transformative impact on the customer experience.

With Conexiom, teams across the distribution industry are cutting down processing time to provide a seamless end-to-end customer experience.

Download this infographic to learn more about how you can improve order processes speeds — and your company’s customer experience.

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Most distributors agree that excellent customer service is not only a way to differentiate themselves from the competition, but it’s also extremely important to the bottom line. Take a look at this eye-opening infographic, based on a January 2021 survey of distributors, that shows just how important the customer service team is to the company’s success — and highlights some of the obstacles that are getting in the way of fulfilling that promise of market-leading customer service.

Take a closer look at the data that’s setting the tone for 2021 performance.

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In a new report, “Is Now the Time To Purchase a New ERP for Wholesale Distribution,” widely-recognized technology analyst Cindy Jutras makes a compelling case for why today’s wholesalers and distributors should not postpone ERP replacement during the pandemic and beyond.

Download the report and watch the on-demand webinar today, to learn why the pandemic’s acceleration of digital transformation is making cloud distribution solutions an imperative.

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Streamlining sales order automation is a critical component influencing the future of business success. Automation enables companies to deliver goods efficiently while also enhancing customer relationships and experience.

This ebook outlines six significant business outcomes that manufacturers and distributors have achieved when implementing automated order processing.

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COVID-19 has brought sweeping changes to how distributors approach technology, forcing old operating practices out the door. Distributors have found themselves needing to build increasingly technology-enabled organizations.

In this MDM executive summary, we look at how three distribution executives responded to the pandemic with strategic digital transformations.

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All organizations are being asked to do more with less, and distributors are no exception. Distributors must be able to profitably engage with their customers. In this whitepaper, we show how distributors are using sales order automation to improve efficiencies, save on labor costs and elevate customer relationships.

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It’s been a year of transformation. The pandemic has accelerated business. It’s also slowed it down. In between the rises and falls, distributors are finding themselves in need of new ways to communicate, track inventory and monitor team performance. This whitepaper shares both results stemming from MDM’s latest Trends survey as well as real-life scenarios on how distributors are investing in technology to tackle the unique business challenges and opportunities of 2020.

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MDM’s 2020 Top Distributors List provides rankings for more than 150 companies, across 16 discrete sectors. The rankings reflect 2019 revenues, whether company-reported or estimated by MDM.

Although the world has changed since these 2019 revenues came in, the areas where many of these leading companies succeeded last year serve as a harbinger for the elements of business that are helping distributors to now make it through 2020.

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Even before the global pandemic became our worldwide reality, leading distributors were attempting to move their inside sales teams from being reactive call-takers to hands-on sale-makers. For many distributors, simply transitioning to having an inside sales team that operates proactively versus reactively can make a world of difference. In this whitepaper, we explore the top sales challenges that wholesale distributors are facing in the digital age and show how they can shift over to a more meaningful, engaging sales model that’s focused on the customer.

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The U.S. economy is experiencing the longest economic expansion and bull market in history, although distributors saw mixed results closing out 2019. What are the best growth opportunities going forward? Lifted by a strengthening economic picture and the prospect of easing trade tensions, distributors intend to improve digital capabilities and invest in talent to sustain the industry for a new, technology-fueled decade.

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With the national economic recovery in its 10th year, wholesale distributors may have forgotten what it takes to keep the lights on and the wheels running in a more challenging selling environment. Despite industry disruptors like Amazon Business, geopolitical issues such as trade wars, and a massive uptick in business-to-business e-commerce, wholesalers have been posting healthy year-over-year sales growth. 

Nearly 270 industry leaders—distributors, manufacturers and service providers—participated in a September, 2019 MDM survey on strategies for small distributors. This survey revealed a number of challenges facing smaller firms as they compete in an evolving marketplace. These challenges include resource limitations, changing customer expectations and evolving marketplace technologies. This white paper summarizes these survey results, discusses the findings and offers recommendations for moving forward.

What does it mean to choose a channel partner in the digital age? As technical capabilities improve, distributors and manufacturers need to work closer together than ever before to integrate systems and master customer needs. These five key areas are essential to ensuring a strong, mutually beneficial working partnership.

Distributors can do so much more with their existing business data, but many are not aware of the tools at their disposal to analyze and execute on it. Or, they know the tools exist but aren’t sure how best to leverage them. Managing data in more effective ways can yield dramatic financial results. MDM’s John Gunderson and Tom Gale have outlined the most common challenges and address ways to overcome them.  They combine MDM’s latest research on best practices in data management to help you strengthen your capabilities.

Distribution companies are increasingly hearing about the digital transformation imperative for a reason. As explained in presentations at MDM’s 2019 Digital Distributor Summit, commoditization, competitive innovation and changing market dynamics are combining to forever alter the distributor’s traditional value proposition. Making a technology investment is no longer optional.

This year’s free edition of MDM’s annual ranking of the top 150+ profiles North American industrial and construction product distributors across 16 product sectors. This is the tenth year MDM has profiled the size and shape of these markets. We’ve expanded the list this year to more accurately capture the largest suppliers of an incredibly diverse and fragmented product portfolio of MRO, production and consumable products (OEM products excluded).

Nearly 250 industry leaders — distributors, manufacturers and service providers — completed MDM’s survey on pricing practices. The responses revealed a lack of consistency and direction concerning online sales strategies. Although customers are increasingly demanding it, some industry players appear reluctant to adapt historical sales and pricing practices to a digital environment. Download the white paper to read more about the results, conclusions and recommendations.