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April 4, 2025

Excess Inventory Management: Creating Value in Your Supply Chain

Excess inventory can quietly drain resources, disrupt cash flow, and occupy valuable storage space. For OEMs, the ...

March 25, 2025

Overcoming Electronics Supply Chain Shortages: A Strategy for OEMs

The catastrophic supply chain shortages of the pandemic era are largely behind us, but targeted shortages continue to ...

October 11, 2024

8 Tips For Strategic Cost Reductions in the Electronics Supply Chain

Cost reduction strategies are always top-of-mind for manufacturers and buyers of electronic components, especially as ...

July 30, 2024

4 Ways An Obsolescence Management Partner Drives Your Supply Chain

Obsolescence management is part careful preparation, part fortune-telling, and part resourcefulness. Your business depends ...

July 18, 2024

3 Reasons to Source Electronic Components From a Hybrid Distributor

The hybrid distribution model provides a powerful competitive advantage when it comes time to source electronic components. ...

June 13, 2024

Obsolescence Management Before It Becomes A Problem

Component obsolescence is considered a supply chain threat by roughly three-quarters of Electronic Design and Source Today ...

June 4, 2024

How an Independent Distributor Helps With Supplier Risk Mitigation

Consolidated Relationships, Global Network Consolidation of your vendor relationships drives efficiency, but diversification ...

June 13, 2023

How to Balance Demand Forecasting and Inventory Management

Inventory demand forecasting has been especially difficult over the past few years. With shifting customer demands and ...

May 4, 2023

8 Benefits of Adopting Supply Chain Risk Management for Electronics

While we are starting to see some easing in electronic components supply chains in 2023, the potential for disruption ...

March 1, 2023

6 Supply Chain Risk Management Strategies For Electronic Components

When reporting their Q4 2022 results, Ford executives pointed to a component shortage that cut output by some 100,000 units. ...

February 8, 2023

The Impact of Inflation on Global Supply Chain Risks

How has inflation been affecting your business these days? Being a player in a global economy, your organization has to keep ...

January 31, 2023

Lean vs. Agile Supply Chain: Where’s the Competitive Advantage?

The automotive industry is often seen as the pinnacle of lean supply chain environments. Lean supply chains emerged from the ...

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