5 Reasons Restaurants Must Do a Guest Satisfaction Survey

Succession planning is essential for family business survival, especially for those where leaders are nearing retirement. According to the Family Business Center, 70 percent of family businesses would like to pass their business on to the next generation, but only 30 percent will be successful.

NetSuite’s Ranga Bodla recently sat down with Jeffrey Gradek, President of Filter Services, a leading distributor and servicer of commercial and industrial filtration products, to discuss the company’s decision to move off Macola to a true cloud ERP system. Filter Services went through a rigorous analysis and evaluation of solutions from Prophet21, Microsoft Dynamics, IBS and NetSuite, and ultimately chose to go with NetSuite. Below are highlights from the conversation.

Between the popularity of shopping on Amazon, an evolving consumer (thanks, millennials!) and a changing definition of what it means to be a retailer, businesses in the retail space are faced with a plethora of challenges right from the start.

As Amazon Business continues to expand across the European B2B market, it is imperative that wholesale distribution and manufacturing companies create a strategic plan for survival in this new age of Amazon. Amazon Business has been on the scene since 2015, and it seems distributors are now starting to take notice of its impact on the B2B market. A recent report conducted by Unilog, surveying 250 manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, found that Amazon Business was considered the number one threat to their businesses today. And yet, 52 percent still have no strategic plan for competing with Amazon Business.