Articles Tagged with ''distribution management''

The "best counter guy in New England" wins the 2026 Champion of Distribution Counter Service award. 

A study that included a survey of more than 100 professionals finds distributors are prioritizing product availability and changing the ways they manage inventory.

Trust, communication, and shared planning are the keys to good distributor-contractor relationships. Those relationships have been tested lately. 

The partners in Lantern, a machine learning software firm focused on product distribution, pitched the technology to HVACR distributors during the recent HARDI conference. 

Distribution experts talk tariffs, the A2L transition, the uses of AI, and more.  

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail, as the saying goes. Take time to reflect on the past year, gather relevant input, and set goals for distribution sales success in the year ahead. 

Distributors report success in reducing R-410 equipment inventory, but some say repealing the deadline for installing the systems would help.

Two crises in five years exposed the same gap: distributors and suppliers aren’t forecasting together.

Safety, efficiency, and having a project champion are keys to a well-organized HVACR warehouse. 

Warehouse teams need to be nimble, and communicate often, to operate best in times like these, according to several HVACR distribution professionals.