NetPlus Alliance has been developed to provide buying group benefits to small and medium-sized industrial supplies distributors. The organization will work directly with manufacturers to secure value-added pricing programs on behalf of its membership. Distributors will still control purchase orders, title of goods and remit payment directly to the manufacturer. Annual rebate checks will be issued to each distributor based on its purchases from NetPlus Alliance manufacturers.
Dan Judge, a 30-year veteran of the industrial distribution industry and an active member of the Industrial Distribution Association, is president of NetPlus Alliance. While president of Ward, Beals & McCarthy, Judge was one of six founding members of I.D. One, the first buying group in the industrial distribution industry. He became president of I.D. One in 1993.