B2B Wholesale Future Trends 2024
Across B2B wholesale future trends 2024, you’ll see a few key themes: technology, personalisation and change.
Some are accelerations of global movements, while others are specific to the B2B space. We’ll break down what you can expect in 2024 and where these movements are coming from in this quick, 5-minute read.
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) after Corona, while others are struggling. Take, for example, the Würth Group, one of the biggest. Its Electrical Wholesale unit was particularly successful in 2022, reporting a growth of 25.0 per cent.
Is it hard to increase ROS? If Würth could, why not you? In B2B wholesale distribution, sales managers and executives must increase their return on sales (ROS) to remain competitive and profitable.
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The Most Important KPIs in Distribution and the Influence of AI
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are also used to manage companies in the retail and wholesale sectors.
AI in the form of predictive analytics can establish correlations between individual KPIs and thus provide recommendations for action.
Numerical parameters are necessary to understand the current situation of a business. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are indicators that can be used to measure and determine the performance or degree of fulfilment of pre-defined objectives within a company.
Optimizing AI Efficiency: Effective Use of Data via Qymatix Cloud Connector
As businesses increasingly leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline operations, optimize decision-making, and gain insights, the role of data as the lifeblood of AI has become indisputable. Data acts as the foundation upon which AI models are built, providing the raw materials necessary for AI to learn, adapt, and evolve.
However, manually handling and extracting data for AI can be time-consuming, costly, and fraught with errors. This is where the Qymatix cloud connector comes into play.
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 vehicles) in Germany fallen continuously in recent years, most recently to around 135,000 in 2020. Farewell wholesaler?
This depressing trend has been exacerbated by a recent uptick in insolvencies among industrial wholesale and retail companies, with several prominent names filing for bankruptcy. One of the most striking examples of this phenomenon is the collapse of the Praktiker umbrella company in 2013. Another recent sample, Ludwig Leuchten GmbH.
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What are Algorithms - Easily Explained
Algorithms - the word gets tossed around today for everything from your basic Instagram feed recommendations to complex interfaces like ChatGPT. But what are algorithms? Are they just for computers? How do they help you?
In today’s article, we’ll explain what algorithms are and give some examples of how you can benefit from this ubiquitous but often-misunderstood technology.
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How to Set More-Realistic Sales Targets using Historical Data
How to set more-realistic sales targets using historical data and Predictive Analytics.
To replace the legendary Jack Welch as CEO, the General Electric (GE) Board had selected Jeffrey Immelt in November 2000. As he took the reins, Immelt set an ambitious sales target: “We believe that GE can grow two to three times faster than world gross domestic product, which translates to about 8 per cent sustained sales growth.”
To give you some perspective, the industrial segment of GE had grown 4 per cent historically.
Likewise, on December 4, 2003, Rockwell Automation announced that its board of directors had elected Keith Nosbusch as president and chief executive officer.
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 wholesale trade. Sales managers and directors of specialist wholesalers in Germany are under great pressure as they face an acute shortage of skilled workers.
Predictive Analytics vs Prescriptive Analytics
With so many types of data analytics and analytical methods out there, many people are curious about the relationship between predictive analytics vs prescriptive analytics.
Today, we’ll review all four types of analytics and delve into predictive and prescriptive analytics to help you understand when and how to use both.
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What artificial intelligence can and can´t do
For years, artificial intelligence has fluctuated between the terms "Terminator", "technology of the future", or "new superpower", and "doesn't work", "is disappointing", or "no confidence".
It is not surprising that there have repeatedly been so-called "AI summers" and "AI winters" over 70 years. More specifically, there have been two AI winters since the 1950s, when AI was being researched and developed: In the early 1970s and late 1980s, the high expectations for the technology were dashed. Investors pulled out, and researchers got less funding.
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