Mouser Electronics Inc. today announced that it has reached a global distribution agreement with Akustica Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bosch Group. Akustica is a leading supplier of silicon MEMS microphone products that improve voice input quality in a variety of consumer electronic devices, including mobile phones, tablets, headsets, and small wearables devices.…
DetailsArrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) today announced the redesign of Verical.com, the company’s online electronics components superstore. The redesigned Verical.com features a new homepage with an easy-access parts search, mobile compatibility, multilingual accessibility and more prominent information about the manufacturers selling warrantied, traceable parts through the site. “At Arrow, we work in the world of five…
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Flextronics International Ltd. gets it. Accurate and useful information is at the heart of everything enterprises do. Without it success may never arrive and if it does, it will be fleeting. That’s why the company has recently launched a software-based program to generate and share information about a variety of market issues with customers and…
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In the past, reverse logistics was an unknown concept, and then considered a necessary evil. Now, OEMs have the potential to build a value chain that includes products at the end of their lives. In 2015, combined global spending on mobile devices and data center equipment reached $600 billion. Telecom equipment spending, meanwhile, will hit…
DetailsMicronas (SIX Swiss Exchange: MASN), the most preferred partner for sensing and control, and Digi-Key Electronics, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announce a global distribution partnership. “Our partnership with Digi-Key is very important for us in two key areas”, says Bernhard Huber, Vice President Sales and Industrial at Micronas.…
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The overall market for supply chain management (SCM) and procurement software from major vendors is strong, but growth by smaller cloud-based SCM software vendors is booming, according to a recent market share analysis by research firm Gartner. “SCM offerings delivered as cloud [services] showed above-market growth of 17%” in 2014, said Chad Eschinger, research vice…
DetailsSales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to electronic component manufacturers to respond to emerging situations in an intelligent manner that maintains a balance between demand and supply. The intelligence is achieved by collaboration and alignment throughout the organization supported by software across five major activities. The…
DetailsDespite shrinking shipments for PCs, tablets, and ultra-mobiles, shipments of phablets – phone/tablet hybrids – are expected to grow 66 percent in 2015, according to new research from IC Insights. This translates into 252 million units of large-screen smartphones, with displays of 5 inches or larger, shipping this year, up from 152 million units sold…
DetailsThe biggest external challenge for businesses is supply chain risk, according to a new procurement study conducted by Xchanging plc, a business technology and services provider. The study of 830 procurement professionals across the UK, Europe and North America reveals that 77 percent of respondents believe supply chain risk is the biggest challenge to their…
DetailsThe high-tech industry has spent the better part of two decades working the kinks out of a supply chain that expanded rapidly into China. In addition to the bureaucracy the move entailed – many companies had to partner with a Chinese company in order to literally get a foot on the ground—the logistics of designing…
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