Avnet Inc's Business Segments

Avnet, Inc., incorporated in New York in 1955, together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a global value-added distributor of electronic components, enterprise computer and storage products, IT solutions and services and embedded subsystems. Avnet creates a vital link in the technology supply chain that connects the world’s leading electronic component and computer product manufacturers and software developers with a global customer base of original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), electronic manufacturing services (“EMS”) providers, original design manufacturers (“ODMs”), systems integrators (“SIs”), independent software vendors (“ISVs”) and value-added resellers (“VARs”). Avnet distributes electronic components, computer products and software, as received from its suppliers or through a customized solution, and offers assembly and other value-added services. In addition, Avnet provides engineering design, materials management and logistics services, system integration and configuration and supply chain services customized to meet specific requirements of customers and suppliers.

Electronics Marketing
EM markets and sells semiconductors, interconnect, passive and electromechanical devices (“IP&E”) and embedded products for the world’s leading electronic component manufacturers. With a global reach that extends to more than 70 countries, EM’s products and services cater to a diverse customer base serving many end-markets including automotive, communications, computer hardware and peripherals, industrial and manufacturing, medical equipment, and defense and aerospace. EM also offers an array of value-added support and services that help customers evaluate, design-in and procure electronic components throughout the lifecycle of their technology products and systems. By working with EM, customers and suppliers can accelerate their time to market and realize cost efficiencies in both the design and manufacturing process.

EM Design Chain Solutions
EM offers design chain support and services that provide engineers with a host of technical design solutions that serve as an extension of a supplier’s sales force, which helps make it economically viable to reach a customer segment that seeks complex products and technologies. With access to a suite of design tools and engineering support from any point in the design cycle, customers can get product specifications along with evaluation kits and reference designs that enable a broad range of applications from concept through detailed design including new product introduction. EM also offers engineering and technical resources deployed globally to support product design, bill of materials development, design support and services and technical education and training. By utilizing EM’s design chain support and services, customers can optimize their component selection and accelerate their time to market. The extensive technology line card EM offers provides customers access to a diverse range of products from electronic component manufacturers.

EM Supply Chain Solutions
EM supply chain support and services provide end-to-end solutions focused on OEMs, EMS providers and electronic component manufacturers, enabling them to optimize supply chains on a local, regional or global basis. By combining internal competencies in global warehousing and logistics, finance, information technology and asset management with its global footprint and extensive partner relationships, EM’s supply chain support and services develop a deeper level of engagement with its customers. These customers can continuously manage their supply chains to meet the demands of a competitive environment globally without a commensurate investment in physical assets, systems and personnel. With proprietary planning tools and a variety of inventory management solutions, EM can provide unique solutions that meet a customer’s just-in-time requirements and minimize risk in a variety of scenarios including lean manufacturing, demand flow and outsourcing.

Embedded Solutions
Avnet Embedded provides embedded computing solutions including technical design, integration and assembly to developers of application-specific computing solutions in the non-PC market. Avnet Embedded also provides solutions for intelligent embedded and innovative display solutions primarily targeting industrial applications, including touch and passive displays. In addition, Avnet Embedded develops and manufactures standard board and industrial subsystems and application-specific devices that enable it to produce specialized systems tailored to specific customer requirements. Avnet Embedded serves OEMs that require embedded systems and solutions, including engineering, product prototyping, integration and other value-added services in the medical, telecommunications, industrial and digital editing markets.

EM Sales and Marketing Divisions
Each of EM’s regions has sales and marketing business units that generally focus on a specific customer segment, particular product lines or a specific geography. The business units offer access to one of the industry’s broadest line cards and convenient one-stop shopping with an emphasis on responsiveness, engineering support, on-time delivery and quality. Certain specialty services are made available to the individual business units through common support service units. Customers are further supported by a sophisticated e-Commerce platform, which includes a host of powerful functions such as parametric search capabilities for component part selection, bill of material optimization and component cross-referencing. The site enables end-to-end online service from part and inventory searches, price checking and ordering to online payment. EM Americas addresses the needs of its customers and suppliers through focused channels to service small- to medium-sized customers, global customers, defense and aerospace customers and contract manufacturers. In EMEA, business units, which are organized by semiconductors, IP&E and embedded products and design and supply chain solutions, address customers on both a pan-European and regional basis. EM Asia goes to market with sales and marketing business units within China, South Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Japan.

As a leading global IT solutions distributor, TS works with its business partners in the supply chain to create and deliver effective datacenter and IT lifecycle solutions that solve the business challenges of end-users around the world. These complex IT solutions span the entire IT lifecycle and are sold and delivered to a variety of TS’ customer partners, including VARs, ISVs, SIs and OEMs. These solutions can include any combination of services, software and hardware that address among other items, infrastructure and application management, cloud computing, automation, orchestration, datacenter transformation, security, big data, aftermarket and IT lifecycle services, and multilingual vendor accredited training. TS also serves non-PC OEMs requiring embedded systems and solutions, including engineering, product prototyping, integration and other value-added products and services. In addition, TS provides the latest hard disk drives and microprocessor, motherboard and DRAM module technologies to manufacturers of general-purpose computers and system builders.

Customer partners rely on TS’ supplier relationships and experienced logistics, sales, marketing, financial, technical and IT services experts to help them identify and capitalize on business opportunities in high-growth technologies, vertical markets and geographies. Suppliers rely on TS’ technology expertise and global scale and scope to broaden their customer base and grow sales in markets around the world. TS and its ecosystem of highly trained and knowledgeable channel partners serve as an extension of suppliers salesforces to sell and deliver end-to-end IT solutions to end users. Through dedicated practices and partnerships, TS and its channel partners provide the education, tools, resources, skills and support needed around core technologies like storage, networking and security, along with industry-leading solutions and services incorporating next-generation technologies like big data and analytics, cloud computing and converged infrastructure. They also provide the specialization required to successfully implement and maintain these solutions in high-growth vertical markets, including energy, finance, government, healthcare and retail.

To continue to meet customer expectations in an evolving IT ecosystem, TS and its channel partners are focused on delivering solutions that expand end users product delivery capabilities, extend their reach and resources, and enhance project success and return on investment for deployments that span the entire IT lifecycle.