Navigate shortages with agile sourcing

Often, a shortage situation occurs in the market due to an imbalance of product. As the largest electronics components distributor, Smith helps our customers navigate these situations by matching buyers and sellers of electronic components. Through our years of transactional data and use of customer and industry mapping, we can strategically procure and move excess product around the market to mitigate shortages in supply.

For decades, we have helped our partners get the parts they need to help keep their supply chains active. As both a buyer and a seller of electronic components, Smith sits in an exclusive position during shortage situations. Our global teams use this opportunity to produce key market data and analytics.

Shortage situations tend to give rise to counterfeit components in the market. Our products go through key quality checkpoints – even before they’re sourced – with our advanced supplier rating system. Once at our operations facilities, Smith approaches quality assurance – from visual inspection to destructive and nondestructive testing – proactively in our certified labs.

Smith customizes inventory-management programs as a hedge against shortage situations. Creating a procurement solution ahead of product shortages provides security and stability in the often uncertain and volatile semiconductor market.