Automation and Predictive Technology in the Electronics Supply Chain
New tech continues to play a transformative role in increasing organizational resilience from supply chain disruption. A strong, up-front investment in automation and predictive technologies provides increased visibility into vulnerabilities. Our understanding of the...
Beyond ISO Standards: Electronic Components for Defense and Aerospace Should be Subject to Higher Standards of Quality Testing
When sourcing components for critical applications, quality is paramount. The right distributor needs to go beyond standard ISO qualifications to ensure components are fit to keep fleets afloat, airplanes airborne, and the world safe. Having access to inventory...
Electronics Supply Chain Outlook for 2023
Following a booming 2022, things are beginning to feel different in the electronics supply chain. We are now entering a period of slower growth and are beginning to see a rebalancing of inventory across the market. Years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the market...
What’s Driving the Continued Automotive Chip Shortage?
While other industries that use chips are seeing demand slow, allowing semiconductor manufacturers room to catch up, some automotive chips are still in short supply. Rapid growth in demand, technological advances in chip design, and lingering effects from the pandemic...
Why the Push to Expand Domestic Chip Packaging Is Just Getting Started
Once considered a relatively inconsequential process in chip production, semiconductor packaging has begun to attract more attention lately. Amid the recent push to increase the domestic production of silicon chips, the onshoring of packaging has emerged as a major...
Holding Onto Safety Stock? Put Your Excess Electronic Inventory to Work
While safety stock can mitigate lead time variability and demand uncertainty, it is important to fully understand what degree of protection excess electronic inventory provides and what to do with it when it is no longer needed. With recent fluctuations in the supply...
A2 Global’s Top 5 Posts of 2022
As we reflect on the past year, we’d like to present our most read blog posts of 2022. Find out what topics sparked the most interest among our readers and what had people clicking most. Here are our top 5 posts of 2022: 5 WHAT THE CHIPS ACT MEANS FOR THE DEFENSE...
The Semiconductor Shortage, In One Timeline
The semiconductor industry experiences relatively frequent boom and bust cycles. But impacts of this cycle have resonated more broadly in the past two years, with a confluence of factors impacting an already delicate balance of supply and demand. With chip shortages...