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| About IDI |
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IDI Objectives | IDI Future Opportunities | IDI Long Range Plan
- Continue to bring benefits to all major stakeholders of IDI - members, suppliers, customers and staff.
- Continue expanding IDI membership throughout Canada.
- Obtain recognition that IDI members offer suppliers their most effective channel of distribution.
- Secure for IDI the best prices, rebates, terms, advertising allowances and other considerations, equal to the best offered in the marketplace.
- Expand services offered to become more of a full service organization.
- Maintain IDI inter-member marketing programs to include volume purchasing, inventory exchange, cataloguing and promotional material.
- Develop an effective organizational structure to enable IDI management to expand its leadership role.
- Continue to respond to market changes that demand new products and innovative purchasing techniques.
IDI's prime concern is that local owner-managed distributors cannot effectively compete with multi-branch, multi-national competitors unless they are able to offer similar levels of price and product. By acting co-operatively, IDI members have managed to address this concern while remaining independent. Members agree to sell products to each other. This allows members to sell their customers products otherwise not available to them, or not available to them at the right price. IDI is recognized by many suppliers. Where partnership relationships exist, competitive pricing, terms and rebates have been negotiated. The present and potential benefit to members in the areas of margins, costs and profits is substantial. With our office and distribution centre in Mississauga and our capable staff, we are poised and ready to continue to increase the benefits of IDI to all of our stakeholders. IDI Future Opportunities
- Advertise IDI's message directly to the industrial user
- Become more market and marketing driven
- Expand our integrated supply and national accounts program
- Develop a first class e-commerce solution
- Develop catalogues and other promotional materials for members
- Foster strategic alliances with other groups
- Grow the IDI distribution center in terms of services and sales volumes
- Implement programs to direct more and more members purchases to IDI suppliers
- Strengthen new product sections
- React quickly and incisively to changing technologies and market conditions
IDI Long Range Plan
- Continue to introduce new programs designed to bring bottom line benefits to members i.e. national accounts, IDI distribution centre, catalogues, e-commerce, etc.
- Deal fully with the issue of power purchasing as it applies to member support of IDI suppliers
- Expand the use and dominance of the IDI name and logo closer and closer to the retail models
- Form strategic alliances with other buying groups to associate, cooperate, learn, imitate and share
- Increase member services closer and closer to the full service model
- Negotiate with suppliers to recognize IDI members and treat them no differently than a chain and their branches
- Overall, increase the hard financial benefits of IDI to all stakeholders
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