Triple S Clean Team: Trailblazing Success 2026
Johnstone Supply 2026
NAFEM Annual Meeting
Creating a Capacity for Growth
As distributors grow, inefficiencies that once felt manageable start to slow everything down. Manual work, re-entry, and workarounds quietly consume capacity. This article looks at how focusing on effort reduction, not new features, helps teams support growth without adding complexity.
Workforce of the Future: Automation + Talent for the Customer Experience
The future isn’t binary. It’s not automation or people. It’s both, strategically aligned to deliver better outcomes for customers, employees, and the bottom line.
The most competitive distributors will be those who recognize that automation and talent are complementary levers, rather than opposing forces.
Why Distributors Must be Ready for AI in 2026
Every day, distributors generate vast amounts of information across inventory movements, purchasing cycles, pricing changes, supplier performance, and customer behavior. Historically, much of this data has been underutilized. How does AI change the conversation?
Why More Distributors Are Running on Signals — Not Spreadsheets
Growth is good. Until your systems can’t keep up. For many distributors, rising order volumes, expanding product lines, and increasingly complex operations expose the limitations of spreadsheet‑based management. What once “just worked” becomes a source of delays, data discrepancies, and daily frustration. If your day feels like managing exceptions and re‑keying the same data in multiple places. It’s not a people problem; you … Continued
Run on Signals, Not Spreadsheets
Growth is good – until your systems can’t keep up. Many distributors hit the same wall: more orders, more SKUs, more branches, and the same number of people holding it all together with spreadsheets and workarounds. This whitepaper shows how to break that cycle by running your business on live operational signals instead of manual … Continued