New research from Pembroke Consulting, Philadelphia, indicates technology investments by wholesalers and distributors will boom through 2008. Distributor spending on computer hardware and software is forecast to exceed $80 billion in 2008. Over the next four years, wholesale distribution executives plan to expand purchases most quickly in the areas of online ordering, customer relationship management (CRM), sales-force automation and warehouse management systems (WMS).

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