FD Insights Issue 8 | Page 40

.The First Distribution Stack First Distribution’s Stack allows vendors and business partners to view the full extent of the company’s distribution offerings at a glance. T he First Distribution Stack was introduced partly to counter the notion that the company was still reliant on one or two sectors of the industry. Its roots are based on the technology stack models which are found in various forms within the industry where similar communication functions are grouped into logical layers. A layer serves the layer above it, and is in turn served by the layer below it. In First Distribution’s application however, each layer represents an integral