- January 16, 2025 at 1 p.m. Eastern
Join us for the data and insights on how to best benchmark your sales and growth expectations and navigate the conflicting market signals shaping 2025.
- Sponsored by: Oracle NetSuite
Webcasts
- November 12, 2024 at 1 p.m. Eastern
Join as we discuss a commerce platform that can help grow and eliminate many inefficiencies in your business. We’ll share features and functionalities that will help increase your average online order value, and customer use cases.
- Sponsored by: Adobe
- November 7, 2024 at 1 p.m. Eastern
B2B buyer expectations are evolving, and wholesale distributors and manufacturers face increasing pressure to adapt to eCommerce demands while managing complex product data challenges. These demands will only continue to grow, as 87% of buyers will turn to competitors if they can’t find the information they need.
That’s why, in this webcast, we will explore the common concerns and critical trends reshaping B2B commerce. These include the rise of omnichannel experiences; the growing importance of product information management (PIM); and how the right technology systems can streamline data, enhance customer experience and future-proof your business.
Join us to learn how to navigate these challenges and develop a resilient, data-driven strategy that will prepare your organization for the future of B2B eCommerce.
- Sponsored by: Akeneo
- June 2, 1 PM ET
Register now for MDM's Annual Mid-Year Economic Update Webcast. Join economist Brian Lewandowski and MDM’s Tom Gale for a free webcast on June 2 as they provide the 2022 mid-year economic update and forecasts for U.S. market sectors and distribution verticals.
- Sponsored by: Oracle NetSuite
- May 5, 1 PM ET
Implementing and adopting a CRM presents a unique set of challenges for distributors. When done right, a CRM will help sales teams crush their quotas, accelerate sales cycles and collaborate across the company. Join us on May 5 as we discuss the importance of finding the right CRM for your business and methods for fostering user adoption.
- Sponsored by: White Cup
- April 14, 1 PM ET
Many distributors focused on e-commerce in the first round of digitizing the organization. What’s next? There are great digital power tools – AI, ML, BI, automation and more – available today, but are we in danger of putting the cart before the horse? Of pointing tech at specific problems without looking at the bigger picture? Join me for a conversation with John Wiborg, President & CEO of Stellar Industrial Supply, and Aaron Howard, CEO of Mass Ingenuity, as we discuss ways to create high-performing distribution organizations with common-sense digital deployment focused on business outcomes.
- Sponsored by: Epicor
- March 24, 2022 1 PM EST
What are the requirements for an engaged customer experience in 2022? In this webcast, MDM will share the results of its latest research to benchmark how innovative distributors are transforming customer service and engagement strategies today. In a distributor panel discussion, we’ll also explore what an integrated customer-service strategy looks like, and the shifting formula of people, process and technology that provides the best results for customer retention and delight.
- Sponsored by: Infor
- March 3, 2022 1 PM EST
Supply chain shortages and inflation pressure consumed most of our attention this past year. What can we do to stabilize operations in the midst of market turbulence, while harvesting margin buried in our data? Join ProfitOptics Founder Tony Pericle and MDM’s Tom Gale in this interactive 60-minute webcast as they explore the power of analytics to enable your team to be agile, do more in less time, and prioritize their time to grow revenue and margin.
- Sponsored by: MDM Analytics
- February 10, 2022
The challenges distributors faced these past two years are setting the agenda for 2022 – supply chain, shifting customer and workforce dynamics, margin pressures and more. Join Brian Friedle of White Cup Solutions and Tom Gale of MDM for this free one-hour webcast on Feb. 10 as we explore the analytics and KPIs helping distributors become more proactive and predictive in managing market instability.
- Sponsored by: White Cup
- January 20, 2022
Benchmark your sales and growth expectations for 2022 with MDM’s annual industry forecast, review of macroeconomic and distribution-specific trends, and the latest exclusive Baird-MDM MarketPulse survey insights. Join Baird Senior Research Analyst David Manthey, NetSuite VP Ranga Bodla and MDM CEO Tom Gale for the data and insights on how to best navigate the conflicting market signals shaping 2022.
- Sponsored by: Oracle NetSuite
- January 6, 2022
With turbulence and instability defining current market conditions, many distributors are either using 2021 or even 2019 as a roadmap for 2022 sales targets. Ouch. Join the MDM Analytics team in this free 60-minute webcast at 1 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 6, as we share the tactics and templates high-performing teams are using to plan, forecast and focus on the highest-potential accounts.
- Sponsored by: MDM Analytics
- December 16, 2021
Security, agility, flexibility – these are defining competitive advantage in today’s disruptive markets. In this webcast, we’ll explore key drivers for cloud-based ERP adoption and how distributor IT teams are migrating to strengthen competitive positions while lowering operational costs. Maturing cloud-based ERP platforms are enabling distributors to be more strategic, cost-effective and customer-centric.
- Sponsored by: Infor
- December 2, 2021
Strong demand, constrained supply – is your team proactively managing pricing and inventory variables you can control? Positioned to take advantage of growth opportunities in 2022? Even with continued supply chain and inflation pressures in 4Q, there are proven ways to price strategically, grow margins and seize opportunities in the new normal of uncertain markets.
- Sponsored by: Oracle NetSuite
- November 11, 2021
Register for this webinar for actionable procure-to-pay (P2P) optimization strategies, and discover how AI-driven automation facilitates key competitive advantages.
- Sponsored by: Esker
- October 7, 2021
Register for the live webcast and walk away with actionable order-to-cash (O2C) strategies for solving today’s biggest supply chain challenges.
- Sponsored by: Esker
- September 23, 2021
Every distributor is driving some form of transformation process – digital, analytics, pricing or other technology initiative – to stay competitive. Transformation requires change, and too often leaders don’t plan carefully enough to ensure a project’s success. That’s why statistics consistently indicate a terrible record of leaking the potential value these projects were intended to produce.
- Sponsored by: PROS
- September 9, 2021
Between inventory shortages and supply chain issues, the current inflationary cycle can deep-six your bottom line if you’re not careful. Learn how to leverage this volatile environment to make supplier cost increases a competitive advantage with smarter pricing systems and processes in this free one-hour webcast. Join distribution pricing expert John Gunderson, epaCUBE Vice President, and MDM’s Tom Gale, 1 p.m. Eastern, Thursday, Sept. 9.
- Sponsored by: epaCUBE
- August 19, 2021 2 p.m. EDT
Distribution supply chains have grown externally for the last 30 years. Off-shore acquisition, just-in-time fulfillment and other innovations have their benefits. But we’ve also seen their limitations — especially in the last year and a half. What can distributors do to mitigate disruption and rethink demand management in unpredictable environments? Join us for this 60-minute webcast, sponsored by Sage, where we will lay out today’s unique opportunity to rethink the supply chain.
- Sponsored by: Sage
- July 22, 2021
In this MDM Webcast, David Koenig, Global Wholesale Industry Principal, SAP, and Angela Troccoli, Sr. Director Product Marketing, Global B2B, Mirakl, join Eric Smith, senior editor, MDM, to “myth-bust” some of the top misconceptions that many distributors harbor about the cost, time, and talent needed to deliver an exceptional e-commerce experience for customers.
- Sponsored by: SAP and Mirakl
- July 8, 2021
Join us for this webcast where Kelly Squizzero, senior director industry and solution strategy, Infor, and Eric Smith, senior editor, MDM, discuss the eye-opening results of a recent MDM-Infor survey. In it we gauged how distributors invested in technology before and during the pandemic, and their plans moving forward. In addition, we’ll talk about how the pandemic altered companies’ outlooks on the myriad ways those investments might enhance customer service.
- Sponsored by: Infor
- June 24, 2021
Join us for the June 24 webcast where we will analyze the latest economic trends, emerging growth opportunities and how the competitive landscape is shifting - plus how distributors and manufacturers can capitalize on all of these trends.
- Sponsored by: Oracle NetSuite
- June 17, 2021
Join us to review 2020 revenue performance and discuss the impact of the pandemic on this year's rankings. You'll come away with new insights into how COVID-19 influenced market performance last year and the varying ways it effected different distribution sectors.
- Sponsored by: Conexiom
- May 13, 2021
Distributors are lagging when it comes to digital strategy, but it no longer needs to be that way. New tools like a digital experience platform (DXP) can help even the slowest adopters boost their e-commerce presence, grow digital revenue and improve profitability.
- Sponsored by: Bloomreach
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