AD runs a member-owned marketing and buying group linking independent distributors with supplier partners across plumbing, electrical, HVAC, industrial and building supplies. Its stack pairs a Snowflake and AWS data layer with a customized Salesforce build (Apex, Lightning Web Components), and job posts point to moving off a third-party service provider plus Drupal migration work, suggesting data and web operations are being brought in-house.
Affiliated Distributors (AD) is a privately held, member-owned organization founded in 1981 and headquartered in Wayne, PA. It brings independent distributors and supplier partners together through a shared marketing and buying group model. Its focus segments include plumbing, electrical supply, industrial supply, HVAC, PVF, bearings and power transmission, building materials and gypsum. The company employs 201–500 people and hires in the United States and Canada, spanning data, finance, HR, legal, marketing and operations functions.
AD uses Snowflake, AWS and Python for data, Salesforce with Apex and Lightning Web Components for CRM, Drupal and Acquia for web, plus Paylocity, DocuSign, Smartsheet, Jira, Qualtrics and Qlik Sense.
AD is headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and hires in both the United States and Canada.
Current work includes Snowflake data warehouse support, AWS data pipeline development, a Drupal data migration, marketing campaigns for its IDOC program and educational programming for members.
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