Market center distribution - salvation for independent wholesalers?
What are your core competencies and those of your trading partners?
There is an eager sense of anticipation as we move deeper into what many believe is a second industrial revolution.
The explosion in e-commerce technology promises to forever change the way we do business - the very way we live. But there is fear and uncertainty, too. How do we realize the potential the new technology offers without sacrificing personalized service and the efficient product distribution that has distinctively characterized the markets of North America? Can the resources of the thousands of entrepreneurial distribution companies in the United States and Canada, and in fact the world, be brought to bear to fill in the gaps of developing Internet technology?