Smart Strategies for Distribution: Collaboration and Diversification

Wholesale distributors face many challenges in a business environment with shrinking margins, rising costs, increased competition, and demanding customers.  Two key strategies, enabled with the latest solutions, can improve sales, improve margins and streamline processing: collaboration and diversification.

Let's take a look at collaboration first. Collaboration was a key buzzword in the late '90s as ERP software vendors focused on messaging to get distributors to collaborate with vendors for demand planning.  Back then collaboration focused around supply chain planning - in this article we're referring to collaboration as a way to accelerate sales with wholesale customers.  

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