The one-week 2022 University of Innovative Distribution will be March 21-24 in Indianapolis.

The program lists 53 courses.  Examples include: Pre-Call Planning Tactical Offense Clinic; Max Out Margins with Strategic Pricing; Ditch the Pitch: Influence through Improvisation; How to Keep Top Talent from Becoming Someone Else’s; Tool Up: How to Select, Implement and Manage Software so Technology Works for You; Marketing in a Multi-Channel World; Stop Today’s Hackers; Unspoken Rules of Leadership; Sales Coaching; Creating a Winning Marketing Plan; Effectively Analyzing Your Investment in Inventory; and Decoding Customers: Perfecting Customer Experience in Four Simple Steps.

Participating students receive a Letter of Completion from Purdue University awarding 30 hours or three Continuing Education Units.  The CEUs can be applied toward a 90-hour professional certificate of Innovative Distribution.  For Purdue CEU information:  kanewton@purdue.edu

First held in 1994, UID sponsors include the Department of Technology Leadership & Innovation at Purdue University and the Association Education Alliance.

The week includes a group night at an Indiana Pacers game.

There is an early registration discount until January 2.  Web: UNIVID.org

The Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association offers 15 scholarships for member distributors.  Web: STAFDA.org