In this episode of In the Mind of a Distributor, Benj sits down with Gary Corless, former CEO of PSS World Medical (now McKesson Medical-Surgical), to unpack how the company scaled from a $15M startup pulling orders in shopping carts to a $2B industry leader. The key to that growth was a rich company-wide culture where everyone (not just sales) owned the number. Gary walks through how PSS built a true growth culture that aligned teams from the warehouse to the C-suite, turning everyday roles ...
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In this episode of In the Mind of a Distributor, Benj sits down with Gary Corless, former CEO of PSS World Medical (now McKesson Medical-Surgical), to unpack how the company scaled from a $15M startup pulling orders in shopping carts to a $2B industry leader. The key to that growth was a rich company-wide culture where everyone (not just sales) owned the number. Gary walks through how PSS built a true growth culture that aligned teams from the warehouse to the C-suite, turning everyday roles ...
Merchandising massive product catalogs | Brian Walker
In the Mind of a Distributor
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1 month ago
Merchandising massive product catalogs | Brian Walker
In this episode, Benj sits down with Brian Walker, Chief Product Officer at Grainger, to unpack how one of the largest distributors in the world approaches merchandising at scale. With over 2 million SKUs in their core business and an endless assortment model through Zoro, Grainger’s merchandising strategy is anything but simple. Brian explains how they decide which products to carry, how they use customer context to guide those decisions, and what it takes to make the right products easy to ...
In the Mind of a Distributor
In this episode of In the Mind of a Distributor, Benj sits down with Gary Corless, former CEO of PSS World Medical (now McKesson Medical-Surgical), to unpack how the company scaled from a $15M startup pulling orders in shopping carts to a $2B industry leader. The key to that growth was a rich company-wide culture where everyone (not just sales) owned the number. Gary walks through how PSS built a true growth culture that aligned teams from the warehouse to the C-suite, turning everyday roles ...
