Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management

Supplier spotlight: ADIOS

ADIOS was established in 2025, by Anglia Components, to offer customers an alternative supply chain route at a time when many large semiconductor manufacturers were shifting towards more restrictive sales channels and direct models. This shift has reduced customer choice when selecting supply partners. While it may improve margins for manufacturers, a one-size-fits-all approach often

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Supply Chain Management

British engineer cracks the China cost barrier

CircuitHub has revealed that The Grid, its factory-scale robot in Massachusetts capable of assembling hundreds of circuit boards on-demand every day, has closed the price gap with China – ushering in a new era of electronics production. With most electronics manufacturing having left the West, and critical supply chains rooted in the East, The Grid

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Supply Chain Management

Why chip supply resilience depends on materials science

Materials science gives the semiconductor industry an essential tool for building supply chain resilience. Every chip starts as a stack of carefully engineered substances, from the elements in its substrate to the chemicals that define its circuits. When chemists and materials engineers refine those substances, chipmakers can lean less on scarce suppliers and absorb disruptions

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Sourcing Strategies Supply Chain Management

Anglia provides resilience during ‘analog frenzy’

Anglia Components is helping customers navigate the current frenzy in the analog market by offering a full package of signal chain components from a range of high quality, reliable, proven, and audited manufacturers from around the world. Says Steve Rawlins, Anglia’s CEO: “Anglia has signed full franchise, stocking agreements with 10 suppliers, enabling us to

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Sourcing Strategies Supply Chain Management

How to maximise your supply chain during the AI boom

The AI infrastructure build-out is rewriting the rules of electronic component procurement, and few organisations are watching the shift more closely than Smith, the an independent distributor. In a webinar hosted by Procurement Pro and sponsored by Smith, Managing Editor Paige Hookway sat down with Todd Burke, Chief Commercial Officer at Smith, and Todd Banker,

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Industry Insights Sourcing Strategies Supply Chain Management

Webinar: maximising your supply chain during the AI boom

Procurement Pro has opened registration for its upcoming webinar, Maximising Your Supply Chain During the AI Boom, sponsored by Smith, taking place on Tuesday 22nd September at 3pm BST. The session comes as the AI boom continues to reshape the electronic components supply chain, pushing procurement teams at data centres and hyperscale operators towards markets

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Digitalisation Supply Chain Management

The new rules of supply chain resilience

Disruption is permanent. Here’s how manufacturing leaders are building operations that hold. The old playbook is finished. For years, supply chain managers optimised for efficiency above all else, lean inventories, single-source suppliers, just-in-time delivery. It worked, until it didn’t. Tariff shocks, pandemic-era material shortages, and geopolitical realignments didn’t just stress those systems. They broke them.

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Supply Chain Management

Unseen consequence of the Iran War – transformer risk

The war in Iran, and delays in the Strait of Hormuz, have impacted a wide variety of supply chains, but one of the less publicised consequences has been a significant reduction in the global availability of helium. Helium performs a vital role in many industrial and medical applications, but it is also utilised by the

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Supply Chain Management

New whitepaper warns of data centre commissioning cliff

RS UK and Ireland, part of RS Group, has published a new whitepaper highlighting that many UK data centre operators could be exposing themselves to unnecessary operational risk by underestimating the importance of MRO supply chain strategy. A spotlight on data centres… How maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) is central to their future explores the

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Supply Chain Management

How is AI data centre expansion disrupting supply chains?

From semiconductors and networking gear to transformers and power equipment, hyperscalers are shifting the supply dynamics for products needed to build AI data centres on a global scale. Those with huge appetites and deep pockets are reserving mass quantities of critical parts years in advance. They have the capital, and they’re willing to spend it.

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