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ASA Quarterly Market Survey

Welcome to the brand-new ASA Quarterly Market Survey for ASA-member distributor companies. Once a quarter, ASA will pose questions on hot-button topics of great interest to our members.

These questions have been generated by ASA distributor members — your peers, colleagues and competitors.

We will publish the results in our weekly ASA Insights e-newsletter, in our quarterly ASA Review publication and through Supply House Times, ASA’s official media partner.

Some of the questions have been kept open-ended to allow for distributor elaboration, which will enhance the value of the report when published. Please elaborate on your thoughts as much as possible.

Your responses and identity are always kept strictly confidential.

Thank-you for participating in this survey.
THE ECONOMY
1.How have your company sales been over the last 6 months?(Required.)
2.In the next 6 months sales-wise, do you expect...(Required.)
3.Has the recent recession talk impacted your business?(Required.)
4.Do you see inflation slowing down or are pricing increases still prevalent?(Required.)
5.How are you best managing vendor lead times as the supply chain heads toward better stability?(Required.)
6.If you are still experiencing shortages, rationing, what product categories are you seeing these shortages in? And why?(Required.)
7.Are there any indicators or predictors you have noticed with the future cost of goods/the decrease of material trends?(Required.)
OPERATIONS
8.Do you pay more attention to week-over-week sales or gross profit trends right now?(Required.)
9.Have Home Depot/Big Box stores had a greater impact on your business since the start of the pandemic?(Required.)
10.Do you see a continued increase in Big Box store market share in our industry? If yes, why do you feel that way?(Required.)
11.What is the No. 1 thing you are doing to drive efficiency in your organization right now?(Required.)
12.Does your company use Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)?(Required.)
13.If you do use VMI, what do you see as the advantages/disadvantages of doing so?
14.What is the biggest unknown you would like to have data on?(Required.)
TALENT
15.How are you handling the inflationary pressures with your employees?(Required.)
16.Are you having success hiring new employees? What avenues/sources have been the most beneficial for you?(Required.)
17.What best practices are you using to maintain current employees and resist resignations?

(Required.)
18.Do your employees currently utilize training courses?(Required.)
19.If you do utilize employee training courses, what incentives do you have in place for employees to complete those courses?(Required.)
THE FUTURE
20.Looking into 2023, are you seeing an economic decline, project delays/cancellations, continued disruptions?(Required.)
21.If you are seeing decline/disruption in 2023 when do you feel the brunt of it will occur?(Required.)