Amazon Business Tops Coronavirus in Most-Read MDM Blogs of April - Modern Distribution Management

Amazon Business Tops Coronavirus in Most-Read MDM Blogs of April

Though the fallout for distributors from COVID-19 continued to be a hot topic in April, news on Amazon Business garnered the most attention from MDM readers during the month. New data show the enormous number of SKUs available on the platform and that it may be poised to become the top industrial distributor in the U.S.

Though the fallout for distributors from COVID-19 continued to be a hot topic in April, news on Amazon Business garnered the most attention from MDM readers during the month. New data show the enormous number of SKUs available on the platform and that it may be poised to become the top industrial distributor in the U.S.

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By: Benj Cohen

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