CATERFORCE APPOINTS TWC FOR CUSTOMER RESEARCH PROJECT

May 5, 2022 | Business Intelligence, Consumer Trends, Data, Foodservice, Innovation, Technology, TWC Press Releases, Wholesale

Foodservice buying group, Caterforce, which brings together nine of the largest independent wholesalers in the UK, has appointed data & digital experts TWC to conduct a customer research project for the group. The purpose of the study is to better understand how...

Is it Artificial Intelligence – or Business Intelligence – that wholesale needs?

Jan 18, 2022 | Business Intelligence, Data, Innovation, Technology, TWC Talks, Wholesale

There is a great deal of buzz around Artificial Intelligence – or AI – at the moment, with many leading figures in wholesale saying it is the next big thing to hit our industry. But is it? In the tech space, AI has been discussed for many years and – like...

Levelling the playing field with the mults – Part 2: forecasting and stock management

Nov 17, 2021 | Data, Innovation, Supply Chain, Technology, TWC Talks, Wholesale

In a recent blog, we talked about how a market read for the wholesale channel would enable suppliers to evidence the scale and scope of this route to market to gain internal investment and accurately calculate size of prize/opportunity.  The other obvious area to...

The real and present danger of malware in the Wholesale sector

Nov 4, 2021 | Data, Technology, TWC Talks, Wholesale

Cyber Crime is rising in both scale and complexity. It costs businesses and individuals in the UK billions of pounds a year and it is not alarmist to say it puts lives at risk given the impact WannaCry ransomware had on the NHS in 2017. The National Crime Agency is...

COUNTING THE COST OF DATA

Sep 24, 2021 | Business Intelligence, Data, Technology, TWC Talks, Wholesale

The launch of TWC’s new product WholeView in the last couple of weeks has driven more conversations than usual with suppliers about the data they purchase.  Through these conversations, it has become very apparent that supplier organisations have varying approaches to...

Data – levelling the playing field with the mults…

Sep 1, 2021 | Business Intelligence, Data, Supply Chain, Technology, TWC Talks, Wholesale

Our vision at TWC is to enable wholesale to harness data to drive channel growth.  We want a thriving and vibrant channel that competes on a level playing field with other routes to market. In our 20-year journey, one of things that the industry has discussed at...