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Essential Financial KPIs – Unlock the Power of Financial Metrics

Business owner and coach Bernie Smith guides the reader through a carefully chosen selection of the most important finance KPIs, and more importantly, how to put them into practice. 

Take charge of your company’s success with the perfect mix of financial metrics. Download your step-by-step finance KPI guide now to unlock: 

  • Formulas to help get you started right away with your freshly-chosen KPIs. 
  • Clear definitions of the key finance KPIs you should be measuring. 
  • Applicable case studies to show you step-by-step how each KPI works. 

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MDM Guide: Tailor Your Tech Strategy to Win in Any Market

Whether via ERP improvements, AI infusion, eCommerce tools or all the above, improving customer experience is today’s top priority for nearly all wholesale distributors.

 

This new guide from MDM provides real-world examples from companies that recently innovated on this front and the ROI strategy and self-evaluation they underwent before making tech investments.

 

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A True Business License Compliance Framework Guide

Avalara solutions enable companies to centralize their business licenses, standardize their workflow for obtaining and renewing licenses, digitize their paperwork, and minimize their busy work.

 

This platform offers workflow tools tailored to specific business needs, enabling seamless collaboration from senior management to remote staff, ensuring ongoing compliance with a dynamic calendar, and reducing the time spent on repetitive tasks.

 

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Turn Searches into Sales: No More Customers Lost in the Sea of Products

Finding a product on a B2B distributor’s site can be like playing a game of Waldo with no idea what Waldo looks like. To spare customers the headache of sifting through a sea of products, distributors can create a more organized, user-friendly experience.

 

Learn how 3 different distributors have cracked the code to growing sales through search.

 

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Are B2C Best Practices the Future of B2B E-Commerce?

B2B companies investing in digital are seeing value and gaining share.

 

See which product discovery, conversion and customer acquisition tools make your competitor’s roadmap and see what the data says about B2C practices in B2B.

 

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Metrics That Matter: Key Metrics for Distributors to Drive 2022 Revenue

Throughout history, the distribution industry has looked to specific metrics to understand business performance. By tracking these metrics, organizations know how they are doing, month over month, quarter over quarter, and year over year.

 

But often, organizations fail to review, reevaluate, and adjust their metrics regularly; as a result, organizations can end up paying attention to the wrong metrics or things that are no longer truly meaningful.

 

Get started with five key metrics that distributors should be reviewing, reevaluating, and adjusting to drive 2022 revenue.

 

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5 Top Trends That Will Drive Distribution Technology Investments in 2022

Among the pandemic-era trends that have impacted distributors, a deeper focus on robust technology investments may be the longest lasting. Read the results and analysis of the technology portion of the 2022 MDM Trends Survey, where you’ll find how distributors expect to make technology investments and ways companies can plan now to get ahead of the next wave of innovation.

 

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Distributors Rethink the Supply Chain in Light of New Challenges

Supply chain disruptions are expected to continue throughout the coming year and beyond. But that doesn’t mean there is nothing distributors can do about it. This whitepaper addresses some of the key issues that are preventing a smooth supply chain and ways that distributors are approaching the challenges. From taking a closer look at near-shoring to investing in more collaborative business partners and technology, three supply chain experts will take you through the latest thinking on the topic.

 

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The Growth of E-Commerce Investments in Wholesale Distribution

There’s a lot of noise around e-commerce growth in distribution. But where do distributors actually stand on the topic today? This whitepaper explores the progress the industry has made and takes a closer look at statistics around e-commerce revenue generation, areas of investment and what distributors are doing to boost online brand awareness.

 

2021 Customer Insights Survey

Digital technology adoption among businesses has grown dramatically during the pandemic, with some estimates showing that COVID-19 accelerated the average share of customer interactions that are digital by three years. But what does this mean for a distributor? Is e-commerce enough? Is it time to launch a virtual marketplace? What other digital tools are needed to thrive in the new business cycle now emerging? MDM answers those questions and more in a new whitepaper, 2021 Customer Insights Survey, sponsored by Valtech.

 

Download our 2021 Customer Insights Survey whitepaper now to learn what your customers both want and need from their distributor partners and how your company can integrate digital and traditional communication into the customer journey.

 

What Are Distributors’ Post-Pandemic Technology Investment Plans?

When it comes to the bottom line, the pandemic didn’t treat every company the same. Yes, COVID-19 was an equalizer of sorts. Most states went into lockdown, many businesses were closed and quarantining became the norm for millions of people. Distribution, for the most part, was deemed an essential business, but even still, many distributor customers had to shutter their doors for weeks or even months at a time. The impact was both severe and long-lasting.

 

The MDM-Infor Technology Trends Survey 2021 will provide valuable insights into how wholesale distribution navigates COVID, where it goes from here and what preparations still need to happen should another disruption ravage the industry again.

 

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The State of Commerce Experience 2021: A Turning Point in E-Commerce History

In 2020, a whopping 83% of decision-makers reported double-digit growth in digital revenue. In 2019, before COVID-19, only 9% experienced such growth. This is not a moment to let pass you by.

 

For the second year in a row, Bloomreach, the leader in commerce experience™, commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct an online survey of B2B and B2C businesses and consumers in e-commerce across the US, UK and Germany. 

 

Read on to discover what the study found, and how firms can capitalize on the market share they’ve captured during COVID-19.

 

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Man vs Machine: Who is Going to Win the War for B2B Customer Loyalty?

Artificial intelligence is increasingly a common part of the e-commerce experience. Some say AI will eventually eliminate the need for traditional sales and marketing, others believe human interaction is here to stay.

 

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AI Technology is Shaping the Future of E-commerce

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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Distribution Industry Insight: Transforming Customer Service with Document Automation

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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Distribution Industry Insight: Making Time for Customer Service Is Key to Success

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.

 

2021 Industry Outlook

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

The road to pandemic recovery for wholesale distribution runs through MDM and Robert W. Baird’s annual industry outlook distributor research and survey. Download this report for all the details on why there’s reason for optimism in 2021.

 

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Is Now The Time To Purchase A New ERP For Wholesale Distribution?

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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6 Stellar Business Outcomes You Achieve When You Automate Order Processing

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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Technology’s Role in 2021 Business Planning

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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Maximize Revenue and Wallet Share with Order Automation

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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Digital Leverage for the Next Normal

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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Executive Summary: 2020 Economic Benchmarks for Wholesale Distribution

At the beginning of 2020, who would predict it to be one of the toughest years most wholesale distribution companies have faced? For more than 10 years, MDM has published an annual chartbook that benchmarks the U.S. wholesale distribution industry with a variety of financial metrics: historic and forecast revenues; average gross margin; employment change; segmentation by company size and industry sectors served.

This Executive Summary provides an overview of our 234-page 2020 Economic Benchmarks for Wholesale Distribution report, based on 2019 data. Given the fundamental upheaval to this $6-trillion industry comprised of 19 sectors, these 2019 financial statistics will be critical benchmarks against which the recovery of the U.S. wholesale distribution industry will be measured over the next several years.

 

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