As a distributor, you may have heard about California’s Proposition 65 initiative to protect their citizens by requiring businesses to provide warnings about their products with potentially harmful chemicals. Their goal is to help Californians make informed decisions...
At the recent TUG Connects 2019 conference in Orlando, distribution industry attendees were tasked with an important mission: become an agent of change. For the hundreds of people who attended the event, it was a mission they were happy to accept. Playing off a secret...
In what looks to be an anti-Amazon strategy, a growing number of Big Box retailers are now offering a buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS) feature for their customers. Independent hardlines distributor and Unilog customer, Orgill, has been tracking major chains in...
We caught up with Carman Pirie, Co-founder of Kula Partners, to discuss why more manufacturers are selling their products on Amazon Business, and how wholesalers and distributors can respond and adapt to this growing trend. The leading marketing and sales consultant...
The past 12 months featured a flurry of activity in the eCommerce space, including mergers and acquisitions between major eCommerce solution providers, which has not only shifted the digital commerce landscape, it has also affected eCommerce customers – both...
The terms “omnichannel” and “multichannel” occur quite often in today’s distribution – and marketing-related discussions. At first glance, these two terms can be confused and even used interchangeably, because both of them refer to managing the retail processes across...
Unilog’s CEO, Suchit Bachalli, predicts Amazon will continue to dig its heels in the B2B marketplace by acquiring a major wholesale distributor like Grainger or Fastenal in the near future. In his two-part article series recently published in Supply House Times,...
Before we start discussing the benefits of omnichannel commerce in B2B, let’s make sure everyone reading this knows what omnichannel distribution is. That’s step one – getting a basic understanding of the terms we’re dealing with, and then we’ll jump into how they can...
Modern B2B business owners are becoming more flexible nowadays and trying to borrow and even improve upon the innovative eCommerce features of B2C retail businesses. One of such features is an online wholesale marketplace for business-to-business transactions....
B2B Online held another successful conference this year – their fifth digital event to support manufacturers and distributors on their eCommerce journey. The three-day meeting brought together more than 700 B2B professionals and eCommerce experts for a mix of small...