IT Opportunities, Trade-offs and Costs II

Now is exactly the time for distributors to consider bold decisions and prudent investments. 

Distributors remain under intense financial and competitive pressure, and these pressures are encouraging them to focus on realizing additional operating efficiencies, better aligning expectations with customer and vendor forecasts and plans, and increasing product and service profitability.

Now is exactly the time for distributors to consider bold decisions and prudent investments.  The economic recovery may be characterized by persistent volatility; uncertainty, and unpredictability, but it is these dynamics, coupled with increasing business complexity, that drive the need for a robust, agile IT infrastructure.

ACTION POINT: Given the high levels of complexity in their operations, distributors must look to reduce it where necessary, and capitalize on it when possible.