What Data is Necessary for AI in Wholesale?
What data is needed for precise AI-based sales forecasts in wholesale? Wholesale companies today face a multitude of challenges. Rising customer expectations, complex supply chains, increasing competitive pressure, and the need to cut costs…
Processes, Tools and Data in modern B2B Wholesale
AI in industrial wholesale: how does modern sales work? In the dynamic environment of specialised wholesale, efficient processes, powerful tools and the intelligent use of data are essential in order to remain competitive. Specialist…
The Future of B2B Wholesale: Predictive Sales Analytics Applications – Opportunities and Challenges
B2B wholesale is experiencing profound change, driven by technological advances and changing customer needs. In this dynamic environment, the correct use of data is becoming a decisive success factor. Predictive sales analytics…
What is predictive sales in B2B wholesale?
B2B wholesalers in many sectors, such as electrical wholesalers, industrial supplies and component retailers, now benefit from modern predictive sales software. The B2B wholesale market is a fast-moving market characterised by intense…
Wholesale as a Success Factor: Modern Customer Relationship Management
Wholesale distribution plays a critical role in the modern economy, linking manufacturers and retailers. Successfully capturing markets and retaining customers is, therefore, central to the growth and stability of a wholesale business.…
Intelligent, Predictive Pricing: the Key to B2B Wholesale Success
Digitalisation is a blessing and a curse, an opportunity, and a threat. Nearly 900 German wholesale companies took part in a recent study by Roland Berger and the German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services Association (BGA). Almost all of…
Artificial Intelligence in German B2B Companies – What do the Figures tell us?
Especially since the launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in Germany has experienced another substantial boost. But what do the numbers say? In this article, we look at the current usage of AI in…
Return on sales in B2B Wholesale – What is it and how to increase it?
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult." Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c.4 BC-c.65 AD. Some of Germany's biggest B2B wholesalers have doubled their Return on Sales (ROS)…
B2B Wholesale & Distribution in Germany: Insolvency.
In the ten years leading up to 2020, the German wholesale industry saw a decline of around 34,000 businesses, as reported by the Statistisches Bundesamt. So has the total number of companies in wholesale trade (excluding trade in motor…
How can AI help with labour shortage in B2B wholesale and manufacturing?
The importance of predictive sales software to address the skills shortage in Germany's specialist wholesale sector. The shortage of skilled workers in Germany has reached alarming proportions and is particularly affecting the specialist…