Would you miss AmazonSupply?

Provocative thoughts from a speech at a stationers' association meeting on Modern Distribution Management (MDM). What if Amazon did close down AmazonSupply? Will the electrical distribution community need to find another threat to focus their thinking? Have distributors learned what they needed to learn from their encounter with the biggest of online retail brands?
March 6, 2015

Provocative thoughts from a speech at a United Stationers supplier meeting on Modern Distribution Management (MDM). What if Amazon did close down AmazonSupply? Will the electrical distribution community need to find another threat to focus their thinking? Have distributors learned what they needed to learn from their encounter with the biggest of online retail brands?

More importantly for distributors, Hodson said, the sun is setting on AmazonSupply as it's currently structured, and that the company will "be closing to the AmazonSupply portal and folding it under Amazon," Hodson said. "The dirty little secret on AmazonSupply in the U.S. is they weren't selling anything. That's out."

Is the Sun Setting on AmazonSupply?, Eric Smith, Modern Distribution Management

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Doug Chandler, Senior Staff Writer

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Doug Chandler began writing about the electrical industry in 1992, and still finds there's never a shortage of stories to be told. So he spends his days finding them and telling them. Educationally, he's a Jayhawk with an English degree. Outside of work, he can often be found banging drums or harvesting tomatoes.

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