Distributors

📣 Call to Action: Join the Conversation

Your voice matters and we want to hear it.We’re expanding our customer User Group to create more opportunities for open dialogue, collaboration, and feedback. These focus group sessions give customers a direct line into our roadmap and help ensure we’re building solutions that support real‑world distributor and manufacturer needs. Upcoming Focus Group Distributor Focus Group:…

No Surprises: Why Advance Pricing Matters

As the new year begins, pricing updates are a reality across the industry. Distributors rely on manufacturers to provide accurate, timely product data and pricing so they can keep their systems, sales teams, and customers aligned. When pricing is delivered through the IDEA Connector, updates flow smoothly into distributor systems using a standardized format, making…

January Newsletter

Stay ahead in electrical industry with the IDEA Tech360 Newsletter – expert insights on data solutions, digital transformation, automation, and industry trends.

December Newsletter

Elevating Brand Integrity: IDEA’s Brand Registry Empowers Manufacturers and Distributors

In today’s fast-changing marketplace, brand integrity is essential for manufacturers. With frequent mergers, acquisitions, and evolving product lines, maintaining accurate and consistent brand information is critical – not only for protecting intellectual property, but also for ensuring products are easily found and trusted by customers. IDEA’s Brand Registry serves as a centralized repository for all…

November Newsletter

You Spoke. We’re Listening. Together We’re Building Better Data.

Over the past few months, the IDEA community has shared valuable input through the Voice of the Customer Survey and our eBIZ conference. Your message was clear: Data quality isn’t just important — it’s essential to powering eCommerce success and efficiency across the electrical industry. Manufacturers, distributors, and contractors alike expressed a strong desire for clearer standards, better tools, and shared accountability to ensure product data is accurate, complete, and consistent. Defining…

October Newsletter

September Newsletter

IDEA Connector Update Introduces New Attributes, Code Sets, and Digital Assets

Distributors have spoken — they need more complete product data to better serve customers and power their digital initiatives. IDEA is thrilled to announce that these new data fields and codes are now available for manufacturers to populate! Together, manufacturers and distributors can more effectively serve their mutual customers with the most complete, consistent, and…

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📣 Call to Action: Join the Conversation

No Surprises: Why Advance Pricing Matters

Elevating Brand Integrity: IDEA’s Brand Registry Empowers Manufacturers and Distributors

You Spoke. We’re Listening. Together We’re Building Better Data.

IDEA Connector Update Introduces New Attributes, Code Sets, and Digital Assets

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