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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.
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Top Industry
Trends
Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.
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Industry
Benchmarking
Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources.
Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Arm yourself with everything you need to provide the right solutions to meet the needs of your business stakeholders.
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Strategy Alignment
The Wholesale Industry Business Reference Architecture Template
Use this template in conjunction with the Wholesale Industry Business Reference Architecture.Strategy Alignment
The Wholesale Industry Business Reference Architecture Guide
An industry business reference architecture includes tools, templates, and authenticated views of wholesale distribution leadership to accelerate the strategy design process. This method enriches the organization's ability to align people, processes, finances, programs, assets, and strategies to complete in their industry.Strategy Alignment
Wholesale Industry Business Reference Architecture
- Demonstrate the value of IT’s role in supporting your wholesale distribution capabilities while highlighting the importance of proper alignment between organizational and IT strategies.
- Apply Level 2 business reference architecture techniques such as strategy maps, value streams, and capability maps to design usable and accurate blueprints of your wholesale and distribution operations.
- Assess your initiatives and priorities to determine if you are investing in the right capabilities. Conduct capability assessments to identify opportunities and prioritize projects.
Strategy Alignment
Wholesale Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem of factors that impact the Wholesale industry.
- Explore how your IT team is set to deal with those factors from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective.
- Leverage expert insights and takeaways and update your IT strategy accordingly.
Strategy Alignment
Wholesale IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
Strategy Alignment
Wholesale Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Wholesale Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
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Top Industry Trends
Top Trends
Wholesale Automation Report
- The costs of increased inventory cannot be passed on to the customer. The pressure is on automation technology to reduce the strain.
- Learn about how the automation trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Wholesale Omnichannel Selling Report
- Wholesalers are playing an increasingly important role in consumer satisfaction and engagement. Omnichannel selling is the clear path forward to becoming an important partner with retailers in providing a seamless, consumer-centric experience.
- Learn about how the omnichannel selling trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Wholesale Demand Forecasting Report
- Complex patterns of customer demand and increased volatility create a difficult environment for predicting how and when inventory will be needed.
- Learn about how the demand forecasting trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Industry Benchmarking
Peer Benchmarking
Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
- Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
- Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
- Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
Peer Benchmarking
Wholesale IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their clients are unsatisfied with the quality of service they are receiving from IT.
- Understand important focus areas to address and insights into how your team compares with other Wholesale IT organizations.
Peer Benchmarking
Wholesale IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business. IT staffing is stretched thin.
- By taking the IT Staffing Assessment diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend benchmarking, you will gain critical information to position your team to be seen as strategic.
Peer Benchmarking
Wholesale IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report
- Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
- Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Core Industry Technologies
Wholesale Demand Planning Report
- Demand planning is an essential component of overall supply chain planning. For wholesalers in particular, it is one of the most crucial processes in setting up the business for success.
- Learn about what demand planning is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Wholesale Warehouse Management Systems Report
- A warehouse management system (WMS) is deployed to decrease errors in picking and shipping goods, improve inventory accuracy and visibility, and reduce dock-to-stock and receiving dwell time.
- A player in the Wholesale industry needs to understand where the greatest WMS value is and select solutions accordingly.
- Learn about what a WMS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Wholesale Transportation Management Systems Report
- A transportation management system (TMS) is deployed to improve shipping efficiency, reduce costs, gain real-time supply chain visibility, and ensure customer satisfaction.
- Software as a service (SaaS) deployment reduces risk and makes a TMS accessible and essential for any Wholesale business because of its ROI, driven by reduced freight costs and increased service levels.
- Learn about what a TMS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Latest Wholesale Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
Problematic IT Processes for Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods: Business Continuity, Enterprise Architecture, and Disaster Recovery Planning
Date published
September 9, 2022
Author:
Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic provides industry-level insights on the challenges of IT departments. We use a concept known as Service Gap to compare the rated importance of a particular IT process with its effectiveness. Use this data to review the existing IT strategy. Ensure that it includes initiatives that adequately address these shortcomings.
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in (supply) chains”: The logistics blockchain
Date published
October 19, 2021
Author:
Retailers and international shippers are already using blockchain technology to track their supply chains. In using a decentralized network to verify digital transactions, shippers can be reasonably sure that the products they deliver to customers are what they say they are, and that they can trace issues (like spoilage) right back to their sources very quickly.
Problematic IT Processes for Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods: Data Quality, Quality Management, and Project Management
Date published
May 18, 2021
Author:
Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic provides industry-level insights on the challenges of IT departments. We use a concept known as Service Gap to compare the rated importance of a particular IT process with its effectiveness. Use this data to review the existing IT strategy. Ensure that it includes initiatives that adequately address these shortcomings.
Problematic IT Processes for Transportation and Warehousing: Performance Measurement, Managing Service Catalog, and Business Process Controls & Internal Audit
Date published
May 18, 2021
Author:
Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic provides industry-level insights on the challenges of IT departments. We use a concept known as Service Gap to compare the rated importance of a particular IT process with its effectiveness. Use this data to review the existing IT strategy. Ensure that it includes initiatives that adequately address these shortcomings.
Transform the Grocery Store Supply Chain With Blockchain
Date published
May 18, 2021
Author:
Blockchain is poised to disrupt grocer supply chains by authenticating products, validating item freshness, and ensuring food quality. The blockchain of food can enable the exchange of information to validate food sources and quality as it moves from farm to table. To unlock its transformative potential, you must develop an intimate understanding of the technology and determine how it could address stakeholder pain points across your supply chain.
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Industry-specific benchmarking reports built on years of in-depth industry data, collected using our innovative diagnostic programs. We aggregate the data across hundreds of IT departments in your industry to give you tailored vertical insights, all packaged in professional boardroom-ready reports.
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Reference architectures built on years of industry expertise, honed by analysts working with real IT professionals in your industry. Leverage industry best practices so you don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel.