No enterprise involved in the electronics supply chain operates in a vacuum, not even companies that have a monopoly on their economic sector. It’s easy, though, for a business to keep a relationship going on past its benefits for the wrong reasons. It’s a trap a former British foreign secretary and prime minister identified generations…
Details
Globalization has radically changed supply chain practices in a number of ways, but the transformation has added even more risks to an already very long list of what can go wrong. Among the potential problems stemming from globalization are more supply chain disruptions among lower-tier suppliers, according to Munich-based analyst firm Riskmethods. Suppliers are now…
Details
Atlanta/Toronto – Call2Recycle, Inc., North America’s first and largest consumer battery stewardship organization, increased its total weight of material collected in 2014 for an 18th consecutive year. With nearly 12 million pounds (5.4 million kilograms) of batteries and cellphones collected through Call2Recycle’s network in both the United States and Canada in 2014, the organization…
Details
DALLAS, TX – Paragon Software Systems, Inc., a leader in vehicle routing and scheduling optimization solutions, announces the company has completed the acquisition of a majority shareholding in Axida, a company that has been a business partner of Paragon for many years, jointly developing integrated software solutions for managing and optimizing home delivery services. The…
Details
Smith & Associates, the largest independent distributor of electronic components, today announces its highest annual revenues since the company’s founding in 1984. With the strength of its global reach and expansive quality and inventory service programs, Smith reached US$747 million in annual revenue for 2014. This achievement comes on the heels of the company’s May…
Details
London, United Kingdom, The biggest threat to the stability of the world in the next 10 years comes from the risk of international conflict, according to the 10th edition of the Global Risks report, which is published today. The report, which every year features an assessment by experts on the top global risks in terms…
Details
BlackBerry CEO John Chen is aiming to ride the net neutrality bandwagon to a more open mobile app ecosystem that, theoretically, would serve to aid his company's products and services. In the process, he's making a bid to expand the definition of what is protected under any potential net neutrality legislation. Chen asked US lawmakers…
Details
PHOENIX—January 15, 2015—Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, today announced that it has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development alliance based on IBM’s POWER microprocessor architecture. Working with the OpenPOWER Foundation, Avnet will help partners and customers innovate across the full hardware and software stack to build customized server, networking and…
Details
Maui, Hawaii. Charlie Barnhart & Associates, LLC (CBA) announces the release of its First Quarter 2015 Outsourcing Navigator Council (ONC) report for January 20, 2015. The main topic for this quarterly report is “CBA’s Annual Forecast of Global Labor Rates” which includes the fully burdened cost of labor in all geographies in which the electronics…
Details
TORONTO, ON— Today, SnapEDA Inc. a provider of design data for the electronics industry, announced a partnership with Octopart’s Common Parts Library to help electronics designers bring connected devices to market faster. The Common Parts Library, created and hosted by Octopart, speeds up component selection by guiding designers towards commonly used electronic components, and allowing…
Details