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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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The new rules of supply chain resilience
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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Unseen consequence of the Iran War – transformer risk
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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New white paper from RS warns of the data centre commissioning cliff
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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How is AI data centre expansion disrupting component supply chains?
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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Rethinking traditional component distribution models
Supply Chain Management

Rethinking traditional component distribution models

The electronic components supply landscape is changing. Given current lead times and supply chain issues, manufacturers of electronic devices can no longer assume that a single authorised channel will deliver the components they need on schedule or is the most cost-effective route. Here, Chris Withers, Sales Director at Zel Components, an alternative electronic component distributor,

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Managing the risks of data remanence in the supply chain
Regulation Supply Chain Management

Managing risks of data remanence in the supply chain

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  • 8 July 2026
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Data remanence poses a critical risk within the global electronics supply chain. When organisations retire, resell, or return IT assets without properly eliminating residual data from storage media, they face regulatory penalties and reputational damage. Effective mitigation means implementing certified physical destruction or advanced sanitisation techniques instead of simply relying on standard file deletion. Data

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Major supply chain shock would leave businesses exposed
Industry Insights Supply Chain Management

Major supply chain shock would leave businesses exposed

Half of global (51%) CEOs say their businesses could not maintain their day-to-day operations for over three weeks without experiencing some form of disruption if a major supply chain shock occurred tomorrow, according to those surveyed for new research from Proxima, a procurement and supply chain consultancy. Proxima’s Global Supply Chain Resilience Outlook, based on

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National Logistics Day: ‘ambition versus action’ gap
Supply Chain Management

National Logistics Day: ‘ambition versus action’ gap

On National Logistics Day, Zebra Technologies highlights a logistics industry ‘ambition versus action’ gap when it comes to improving customer experience and operational improvements for deliveries. According to Zebra’s Impact of Intelligent Operations study with Oxford Economics, while logistics leaders are eager to adopt AI to improve operational efficiency (48%) and customer experience (34%), there’s

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Supply Chain Management Traceability

EBV Elektronik brings transparency to electronics supply chains

EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company, announces its new Essential Business Visibility platform (EBV360), a new supply chain intelligence platform that delivers a clear, consolidated, and real-time view of component availability. Designed for the challenges of today’s markets, the platform enables faster, more informed decision-making across increasingly complex global production environments. For engineers and procurement teams,

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