Tech Data: Helping VARs to Find Best IT Prices?
How can VARs access, track and leverage special bid pricing promotions on selected IT products? Tech Data believes it has found a solution to that age-old question. The distributor has launched a so-called bid pricing tool on TechData.com that strives to ensure SMB resellers receive highly competitive IT pricing. Here are the details.
According to Tech Data, the company’s website now tracks more than 30,000 active special bid pricing promotions. These include broad pricing promotions granted by vendors to help partners target specific vertical markets like healthcare, government and education, as well as custom pricing unique to an individual end user–available through their resellers–such as a hospital, university or large enterprise, Tech Data claims.
The VAR Guy concedes: He isn’t sure if rival distributors offer solutions to track special bid pricing. So our resident blogger is checking in with multiple distributors for perspectives.
In the meantime plenty of folks — from Autotask VARStreet to Cnet Channel Online — are striving to promote IT purchasing automation tools that help VARs maximize their product margins.
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The main issue is receiving correct promotion information from the vendors. The tool is only as good as the data in it
Aut30: So, do you think Tech Data is onto something here? Or is the data no good? The VAR Guy welcomes your thoughts.
-TVG