While inventory may site on your balance sheet as your most important financial investment, every distributor owner and manager knows that their people are their biggest asset and can also be their biggest liability. They are an asset as they […]
While a technology, AI has quickly evolved from a novelty that seemingly everyone tested last year to a business workflow process to be considered – a tool to support profitability improvement, and a tool for revenue generation. In other words, […]
A couple of weeks ago Mark McGready, IDEA‘s Director of Data Analytics and Solutions, attended the Applied AI for Distributors conference and while he shared Nudge with a number of people, upon reflection after the conference, he noticed an elephant […]
Every conference has some session about AI. And every reception at every conference has someone asking about what you’re doing with AI. So, imagine being at a conference that is all about AI and where everyone is talking AI 24x7x3. […]
Over the past few years there have been a number of AI tools, and companies, launched to support electrical distributors. Many of them launch with one product. Essentially, these are modules for a distributor as they address one issue. They […]
As a distributor, you heard about AI at every conference. Your IT department, or provider, is talking about AI and “we could do this, we could do that.” You hear about internal “skunk works” projects that are occurring within your […]
Parspec continues to grow and launch new, innovative, tools Recently it was a sales management platform to support lighting agents and now it’s an AI-native project management platform developed with leading electrical distributors to help electrical distributors advance their businesses […]
Last month I participated on Prokeep’s webinar on order quotation and order automation. For a pre-launch event, the attendance was great. The timing, incidentally, coincided with attendance at NEMRA were some large contractors shared what is important to them. The […]
What do Arlington Industries and Pull Logic have in common? Both are innovators. And innovative companies drive change and are valued. Innovation Drives Acquisition Both companies are known as innovators and, coincidentally, received new “investors” with Arlington being acquired by […]
Lots of conversations regarding AI for distribution. Lots of application-specific initiatives, which is an approach. There are some more “comprehensive” systems, which is a different approach. What the right solution is is a company-specific conversation based upon goals, however, the […]
