The Sensible Blog
The latest in electronic manufacturing, distribution and component news.
July 25, 2025
Component Testing & Inspection: Ensuring Quality in Your Supply Chain
Supply chains today have steadily grown more global, more fragmented, and faster-moving. All of these factors have ...
July 17, 2025
How OEMs Can Tackle Supply Chain Disruptions in 2025
Supply chain disruptions are nothing new, but the stakes get higher in an unstable geopolitical environment. Sweeping ...
June 25, 2025
How OEMs Can Benefit from Supply Chain Data Analytics
The AI boom has only accelerated the pressure to deliver faster, reduce costs, and minimize risk. An increasingly complex ...
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've seen some easing in electronic components supply chains since the conclusion of the wild pandemic era, the ...