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According to a recent Gartner article, high performing supply chain organizations leverage AI at more than twice the rate of lower performing businesses. There’s a handful of reaso...
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According to a recent Gartner article, high performing supply chain organizations leverage AI at more than twice the rate of lower performing businesses. There’s a handful of reaso...
According to IDC, up to 50% of IT projects require material rework. That’s not the same thing as an outright failure—but it should give an indication of just how low the batting av...
The plumbing supply industry is no stranger to supply chain challenges. In the past few years, the plumbing industry has had to grapple with wild fluctuations in demand, material p...
Studies consistently show that delivering on time is important. It’s important to your customers, who will vote with their dollars if they don’t get the right order at the right ti...
National roofing week may have been a couple of months ago in June, but the importance of the roofing supply industry is undiminished the remaining 51 weeks of the year. In one sur...
Building supplies distributors know there's no room for error when delivering to busy job sites.
The US flooring market has been on an upswing that is projected to continue—with an expected CAGR of 5.4% between now and 2030. That means that distributors who specialize in floor...
Lots of things that sound good in theory don’t work so well in practice—like New Year’s resolutions or big budget film sequels. New software solutions can also fall into that categ...
It's a business version of the baseball squeeze play: Customers want last mile operators to reduce their carbon footprint while the bottom line is begging for a boost. But the two ...
Why is it that sometimes we stick with an existing supplier or manual way of working, even if we’re deeply unhappy with the performance, and know there must be a better solution? I...
The competitive landscape for lumber dealers is tougher than ever—with big box stores and smaller online sellers trying to take a slice of the pie and evolving expectations around ...