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Meet 2025 NextGen All-Star, Andre Aksoy.

Passing your business to a successor may seem easy, but researching potential candidates is essential. Evaluate their fit with your company’s values and strengths. Consider training a promising member of your management team early.

Every summer in Hershey, Pennsylvania, APR Supply Co. hosts one of the largest plumbing and HVAC wholesale buying shows in the nation. Now in its 103rd year, the 23rd Annual Buying Show attracts plumbing and HVAC/R installers from within a 150-mile radius of the company’s Lancaster, PA headquarters.

Supplyindustrycareers.com is a website created by ASA and targeted at job seekers to provide information about the variety of exciting and prosperous opportunities that exist within the industry. Project Talent conducts social media and email marketing campaigns to drive potential candidates to this site that receives about 4,000 visitors a month.

Across the country, water quality challenges vary dramatically, shaped by everything from geology to infrastructure to climate. For distributors, ignoring these regional nuances can mean stocking the wrong products, giving contractors poor advice, and ultimately missing out on trust and sales. On the flip side, understanding local water conditions gives forward-thinking wholesalers a distinct competitive edge.

Merchant will be recognized during the 15th annual WiM SUMMIT conference in Chicago on October 12-14th.

Streamlined data exchange reduces the risk of human error and ensures that critical business processes, such as procurement and order fulfillment, run smoothly. This not only saves time but also fosters stronger relationships with partners and customers by improving reliability and accuracy.

To date, more than 35 leading manufacturers and distributors have contributed to the development of the standard and have started adopting it within their product sharing systems.

From stolen data to system disruptions, cyberattacks can be devastating. But with the right knowledge, you can take action to safeguard your business and educate your team to help keep these threats at bay. Here are six cybersecurity strategies to conside.

When warehouse processes are undocumented, what you're really doing is leaving execution up to chance. One shift might put away inventory one way, and the next shift another. One person picks using the RF gun menu, the other just memorizes where things are. When it works, it’s luck. When it fails, it’s chaos.