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With Info-Tech's Industry Roundtables & Benchmarking, you will never again wonder "what are my peers doing?", "how do I compare?", or "what should I be doing?".
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The Industry Roundtable Events are sessions hosted each month for 8 to 15 industry peers to discuss the
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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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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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Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources.
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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
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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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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 must be a reliable operator and effective partner, all while finding the time and resources to be innovative.
- By taking the IT Staffing Assessment Diagnostic and participating in our unique IT spending benchmarking program, you will gain critical information to understand how you can position your IT team to be more strategic and influential.
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.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
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.
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.
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.
Discussion Summary: Info-Tech LIVE Las Vegas Retail & Wholesale Industries Roundtable
Date published
December 19, 2019
Author:
Info-Tech LIVE took place November 19-21 in Las Vegas, NV. Here, we hosted nine Industry Roundtables focused on the direct and longer-term ripple effects of Industry 4.0 and its hallmark technologies on the different industry sectors. Read this summary of the Retail & Wholesale conversation to learn the main challenges and opportunities your peers think Industry 4.0 presents and what they believe are the next steps to manage this sea change successfully.
Problematic IT Processes for Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods: Business Continuity, Enterprise Architecture, and Disaster Recovery Planning
Date published
December 2, 2019
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.
First GDPR…Now CCPA? Privacy Implications for the Retail Industry
Date published
October 17, 2019
Author:
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) forced many organizations to implement data privacy practices, but now the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) looms closer. What will this mean for the retail industry?
Loyalty Management Programs: Choosing the Right Deployment Architecture in a Retail Environment
Date published
August 6, 2019
Author:
Many organizations struggle to define the appropriate technology architecture for the enablement of their loyalty programs. This note will examine different methods for rolling out applications and systems for effectively managing loyalty programs.
Establishing a Balanced Scorecard for IT Performance in the Retail Industry Is an Important Complement to IT Strategy
Date published
June 11, 2019
Author:
The IT balanced scorecard must go beyond the usual IT metrics. To be most effective, the IT balanced scorecard must demonstrate the value IT provides and reflect corporate strategies and goals.
Benchmarking Reports
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.
Wholesale Reference Architecture
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.