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Develop a Best Practice Case Study

Do you have a company best practice to share?  PTDA continuously recruits new authors to provide their specific stories or insights.  Volunteers are currently being recruited to build case studies related to the following categories:

  • Operating Efficiencies
  • Transaction Efficiencies
  • Inventory Management

Specific topics in each category may include:

Operating Efficiency Transaction Efficiency Inventory Management
  • Cost structure
  • Impact of bad data
  • Consignment
  • Finances
  • Cost of goods sold
  • Obsolescence
  • Lean processes
  • Direct vendor access (DVAT) technology
  • Product roll out
  • Reducing cycle times
  • Eliminate redundancies
  • Stocking logic
  • Radio frequency (RF) systems
  • Online ordering and transactions
  • Surplus inventory
 
  • Usage of Product & Price Information Format (PPIF)
  • Quote management

 

 

 

 

 

The process of developing a case study is easy and efficient:

  • You choose a topic of interest from PTDA’s existing list or an industry related topic of your choice.
  • A PTDA staff member will contact you and conduct a 30-minute interview.
  • At a specified date, the PTDA staff member will deliver an electronic draft of your case study based on the interview.
  • You review the draft, make any desired changes and return the document to the PTDA staff member.  This process continues until you approve the final copy.
  • The final copy is posted on the PTDA web site and in PTDA publications.  In addition, case studies are regularly optioned for exclusive publication in industry trade magazine such as Industrial Distribution, Modern Distribution Magazine, Progressive Distributor and Machinery and Equipment MRO.

By volunteering, you and your company receive:

  • An opportunity to share success stories with industry partners and peers to benefit the entire channel.
  • Increased visibility in PTDA publications, like Transmissions® and the Annual Report.
  • Presence on association’s web site at www.ptda.org/BestPracticeLibrary, accessible to members only.
  • Added publicity through possible press coverage in national trade publications.

To volunteer to develop a case study, contact PTDA at ptda@ptda.org or +1.312.516.2100.

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