Front End | Electronic Components Supply Network
Concluding thoughts Many older hands in the electronic components supply network (like me) have weathered a number of supply and demand imbalances during their career but have never experienced anything like the current high levels of geopolitical tension that has given rise to the huge and ongoing disruption to international and last mile logistics. That said, the electronic components market despite the consolidations, acquisitions and geographic transitions of the past forty years remains highly competitive, and it’s competition that encourages healthy changes in our business.
Electronic components supply issues in the Industrial and Medical sectors are beginning to be resolved, but in the Automotive and Aerospace sectors supply of a small proportion of components will remain constrained for a little longer. I suggest that the appropriate customer response to improving supply in the current uncertain times is to “gently roll back on the throttle” and in collaboration with their supply network partners allow their orderbooks to come back into
balance in a controlled way. Organisations “applying the brakes” or making abrupt changes in their purchasing procedures will inevitably expose themselves and their network partners to increased supply risks.
For information
Adam Fletcher is chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn), a business association established in 1970 that today offers support to all organisations with an interest in electronic components
throughout their entire lifecycle. He is also chairman of the International Distribution of Electronics Association (IDEA), an association of individual country electronic components associations whose objective is to arrive at and share best industry practice.
“…Promoti ng Positi ve Collaborati on Throughout the Electronic Components Supply Network to Benefi t Members and the Economy…”
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