A Sustainable Supply Chain is the Key to a Sustainable Brand
Businesses not only need to reduce their impact as an ethical and social duty. Consumers are increasingly prioritizing sustainable brands
Independent Distributors Define Their Role in the New Normal
After a handful of years marked with component shortages, expanding lead times, pandemic-related supply chain disruption and most recently a ground war, “business as usual” is a relative term. The electronics industry has been especially turbulent, but supply chain businesses see both challenge and opportunity. OEMs and EMS providers have sought deeper supply chain relationships…
Who ‘Owns’ Supply Chain Data?
Data is everywhere in the factory and throughout the electronics supply chain, but who owns that data, who should be able to access and benefit from it and who is responsible for its accuracy? All good questions that were addressed in a recent panel discussion (link provided below) organized by Instrumental and chaired by EMS…
‘Reshoring’ Broadens its Perspective
Two years of shortages – from toilet paper to semiconductors – could finally stem U.S. manufacturers’ addiction to offshoring
Semiconductor Risks: Read the Fine Print
Few procurement professionals spend their days digging into the annual reports of their semiconductor suppliers—and if they do, most probably won’t get into the very back pages of the report. If they did, though, they would find a litany of potential risks that should be considered when creating a sourcing plan for these critical components.…
Manufacturing Activity Bounces Back in May
U.S. manufacturing activity expanded in May as underlying demand for goods remained strong and supply and pricing pressures eased
5 Trends Will Drive the Supply Chain in the Next Decade
New market dynamics are among five trends that IDC said will drive supply chain development over the next decade
How Manufacturers Can Adapt to the New Normal
Research confirms time and again that adaptability is the key differentiator between entities that thrive amid systemic change and those that don’t
Manufacturing Activity Remains Sluggish
U.S. manufacturing activity in April expanded at its slowest pace in nearly two years amidst high levels of employee turnover and Covid lockdowns in China. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index, the PMI, decreased by 1.7 percent to 55.4 as the employment, production and new orders indexes slipped slightly from March. Any number above…
Component Sales Sentiment Rebounds in April
ECIA’s Electronic Component Sales Trend Survey (ECST) exceeded expectations in April