Trust is the strongest link in a resilient supply chain
Supply chains are inherently volatile, and when major disruptions hit, the best way to ensure your business has the flexibility, access to technology and reliable flow of components needed to keep production lines moving is partnering with an expert who designs and executes innovative supply chain models every day. A growing number of global enterprises are trusting Avnet to help them mitigate supply chain risk with data-driven supply chain strategies that enable them to more quickly and cost-effectively outmaneuver disruptions that threaten business continuity.
From standard fulfillment and inventory management programs to sophisticated Supply Chain-as-a-Service (SCaaS) models, we work with our customers to identify needs and priorities, then architect reliable and efficient solutions to satisfy these specific program requirements.
Let Avnet show you how trust can strengthen your supply chain.
– Engineering Manager in energy and utilities, via Gartner Peer Insights™*
Supply Chain as a Service – insights and resources
High-tech meets supply chain
You need a supply chain that is as leading edge as the technologies you source. Accelerate your product’s journey to market with supply chain as a service [SCaaS] from Avnet.
Supply chain services overview
Avnet’s comprehensive service and solutions portfolio provides the assurance of supply, visibility and agility needed to deliver the differentiation that customers demand.
Customer Case Study: Techtronic Industries (TTI)
TTI transforms global supply chain into a competitive differentiator using Avnet business migration solutions.
Avnet Velocity®
Agile. Innovative. Customer-Focused.
An agile, resilient and scalable supply chain is an increasingly critical differentiator in the journey from today’s ideas to tomorrow’s technology. Avnet Velocity® was launched in 2010 to complement and extend Avnet’s conventional Mode 1 supply chain capabilities in support of customers’ growing need for supply chain strategies that balance reliability and responsiveness, efficiency and ingenuity.
With its state-of-the-art, Mode 2 Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) portfolio, Velocity specializes in creating and implementing non-traditional, digitally enabled supply chain solutions that deliver sustained value to customers and suppliers up and down the supply chain.
Delivering Differentiation
Enterprises, from startups to the world's most influential global brands, rely on the expertise, creativity and resourcefulness of Avnet Velocity’s dedicated supply chain architects, business development leaders and program managers to help solve their most complicated supply chain challenges.
Fueled by a culture of innovation and a consultative, problem statement-driven methodology, the Velocity team crafts and implements solutions that fulfill the distinct, end-to-end business requirements and financial goals of each customer program.
Seamless Global Execution
Velocity leverages the power of Avnet’s $20B global corporate infrastructure and the best-in-class capabilities of Avnet’s end-to-end technology ecosystem.
Skillfully integrating advanced digital technologies and complex physical supply networks, Velocity’s custom solutions help customers penetrate new markets, mitigate disruption risk, capitalize on emerging technology trends and deliver exceptional customer experience.
Velocity’s Mode 2 solutions include:
- Digital-Physical Supply Chain Integration
- Supply Chain-as-a-Service
- Financial/Trade Management
- Physical Supply Chain
Leading by Example
To enhance Avnet Velocity’s innovation-focused Mode 2 approach, Avnet executes a systematic thought leadership program that evangelizes the power of leading-edge supply chain strategies and processes to drive corporate value creation, profitable financial growth and differentiated customer experience.
This multi-faceted program puts a spotlight on practices and technologies that allow supply chain organizations to advance beyond traditional boundaries. Velocity’s original content and dedicated industry engagement enable our subject matter experts to share the wealth of knowledge and experience the team has amassed through our collaboration with many of the electronics industry’s most successful and pioneering organizations.
Avnet Velocity is also committed to establishing and nurturing relationships with respected practitioners, renowned supply chain academics, analysts and other supply chain thought leaders. These diverse connections ensure we are continuously building our internal body of knowledge around supply chain and operations best practices, emerging technologies and the socio-economic trends impacting market dynamics.
Strategic elements of Avnet Velocity’s thought leadership program include:
- Publication of the award-winning Supply Chain Navigator digital journal
- Hosting an annual “Learning from the Leaders” Supply Chain Executive Summit
- Participation in leading industry conferences
- Regular editorial contributions to industry trade magazines
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Recognitions
Top 100 Supply Chain Transformations
Avnet’s ongoing business process digitization initiatives, enabling greater operational agility and scalability while continuously improving customer experience, were recognized by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine in 2019.
Recognitions
Did you know?
Avnet is the only technology distribution company to make Gartner’s Top 10 High-Tech Supply Chain ranking.
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