How and why is Ingram Micro becoming a platform business?
Our history is rooted in a traditional distribution model of marketing, selling, and shipping vendor products to our resellers. But today, we’re working toward becoming a platform business, and recently re-entered the public eye under the NYSE: INGM ticker symbol. Many digital transformations focus on platforms to support the business, but that’s different from running a platform business. To be a platform business, you need a network, demand, supply, data, and a customer experience that differentiates. This requires re-wiring the DNA of the organization and creating a high-performance team that believes in the art of possible.
Ingram Micro doesn’t manufacture anything. Instead, we own the mode of connection between OEMs, technology brands, vendors, and hundreds of thousands of resellers. We connect demand and supply, but we don’t own production. Our business is our people and our platform, Ingram Micro Xvantage.
