CDW vs. Ingram Micro

CDW is a good place to go for a large selection of competitively-priced goods to purchase directly from their web store, but customer service is still lacking, even after all these years; look at various review sites online. Management appears to still be out of touch, or possibly as high as the executive level?

If CDW doesn't value our business (and we're an SMB, so not a big juicy account that they're sure to court but we do conduct tens of thousands of $ per year range), there are several alternatives. I need to be convinced otherwise as most account reps themselves are great, but that's the end of the line on customer service for u.

Works well if you want to 1) Fulfill your own eComm orders. 2) Want the ability to do dropship with 3rd party retailers. 3) Want LOT# control (e.g. if you're in the food industry). There are a plethora of companies that can do ecomm fulfillment but they don't have the ability to do option 2 & 3.

Incentivized

• Website is very convenient and easily navigated.
• Quotes are always competitive.
• The range of products and services that they provide is outstanding.

Incentivized

• Products were as-advertised.
• Pricing on HPE servers was competitive.
• Shipping process was reliable.

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• High staff turnover.
• Small organizations are treated as second-class citizens.
• Seems to have an agenda based on what their vendors are offering them for incentives.

Incentivized

• Better Filtering in Product Search

Incentivized

CDW is able to offer a 'one-stop shop', for all your needs in your IT organization. This makes it very simple to pick up the phone and call just one person, to get something ordered or a request to meet a vendor initiated. It also makes it very simple to call one person, when something goes wrong and get assistance.

Incentivized

Ingram Micro is the largest supplier of this type in New Zealand and as such we started to use them almost only for this reason.

Although we have had a very good customer experience and will continue to use Ingram Micro services in the future.

Incentivized