EPTDA's in-house Intelligence & Market Reports

EPTDA has been developing intelligence tool and market trend reports to serve the needs of its members:

 

EPTDA's Very Own Trend Data Survey

Third series running

The third series of the Trend Data Survey addresses results from September to December 2009, as compared to same months in 2008.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS ONLINE SURVEY

Please submit your results before March 5

The resutls

The results EPTDA's Trend Data Survey (TDS) are available free of charge to EPTDA Distributors and Manufacturers.

To access the results of the previous surveys, click here.

The second series of EPTDA's Trend Data Survey was a success! Thank you all for your participation and support.

The Survey

We at EPTDA are well aware that one of the most important goals of our members is to get fresh indications about the global PT market trend and its players' performances. This is especially important in times of economic crisis like we are facing today. For this reason, the Know Your Market Committee has designed a simple and user-friendly "Trend Data Survey" with a specific focus on the following trends:

  • Sales (% variation on previous year)
  • Gross margin (% variation on previous year)
  • Employment (trend on previous year)
  • Inventory (trend on previous year)

This new analysis intends to streamline the information and to share the global output among the EPTDA Members.

To make this new initiative useful and successful for ALL our Members, we strongly invite you to participate. You just need to make sure you have a few data available, and the rest is done in a few minutes!

This survey will be initially made in two steps:

  • The 1st analysis, carried out in June, covered figures from January till May, 2008 and 2009. The report is released free of charge to all EPTDA members.
  • The 2nd analysis carried out in September and covered figures from June till August, 2008 and 2009. The accumulated results were released at the EPTDA's Annual Convention in September 2009 in Rome.

Based on the results of these two surveys, which we trust will meet our Members' expectations, we will further develop the project on the basis of a regular investigation.

This analysis is conducted fully and exclusively by EPTDA. All information provided will be handled with the highest confidentiality.

For any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the EPTDA Head Office (+32 2 709 22 12).

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Distribution Flight Deck

Exclusive Interview with EPTDA Past Leader

Antonio Cammany, CEO at Epidor S.A., lifts the veil on the Distribution Flight Deck - CLICK HERE to read the interview

Background

In an effort to providing EPTDA Members with valuable, accurate tools for their business, the Know Your Market (KYM) Committee developed a "balanced scorecard" for distribution in Europe - the ‘Distribution Flight Deck'.

EPTDA's Distribution Flight Deck is a tool to steer your own company based on major key performance indicators (KPI). The members of the KYM Committee have carefully selected the most relevant "factors of success", adapted to the nature of the technical distribution business.

By tailoring the flight deck to the strategic goals of their company, technical distributors can measure their competitiveness and run their business more effectively.

The Flight Deck in its current form comes as a project proposal by the Know Your Market Committee. It encompasses the most important aspects of running a business in the distribution industry.

The structure of the flight deck includes four perspectives:

  • customer/market
  • processes
  • finances
  • growth/development

The Flight Deck also addresses the problematic of ‘what can not be measured, can not be managed' - with the support of the Flight Deck, you can now "make your strategy measurable!"

The tool

Click here to download the Flight Deck

The online survey

In 2010, the Know Your Market Committee will take its project to the next level, developing an online survey to collect data on the selected KPI's of the Flight Deck and hence establish a valid benchmark to help EPTDA members assess their performance.

Pencil it down in your agenda - the Online Distribution Flight Deck Survey will take off in February 2010!

For any queries or recommendations, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Product Portfolio Analysis (PPA)

In 2007, the Know Your Market Committee initiated a project to analyse the performance of EPTDA members in each product category represented within EPTDA.

The Product Portfolio Analyis shows the composition of the turnover as well as the gross margins achieved in the single product groups.

To download the 2006 Product Portfolio Analysis, please click here