Ineltek – Recommended actions for our customers and business partners on procurement situation for semiconductor components

Dear customers & business partners,

Over the past 2 years the whole world has faced the immense challenge getting the pandemic and all its consequences under control. More recently, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has added a further tragic event such as we have not experienced for decades.

With regard to the already challenging component availability situation, it is still unclear what the knock-on effects of the invasion and accompanying economic sanctions will be over the coming weeks and months.

The known consequences in the semiconductor market so far:

• Delivery times of up to 24 months
• Repeated postponements of goods already ordered in long-term contracts
• Price adjustments due to partly daily increasing freight costs, shortage of resources, capacity assurance in the production process, and many others
• Short-term EOL / PCN process of entire component families

Our service to you:

• Forward-looking demand planning for your high runner articles
• Working with the manufacturers we represent to find solutions for your supply situation, so that you can maintain your production process.
• Evaluation on alternative components and adaptation tasks/opportunities
• Evaluate new international sources of supply for all components in all categories of semiconductors.

Here the most important recommendations we have for you:

• Please consider even longer-term planning in your materials procurement strategy (mandatory covering them in 2022, urgent recommendation: extending them to 2023).
• In addition, place your already placed frame orders in proper time
• For a detailed assessment of your assemblies, please contact our sales department.
• Let us know your BOM so we can support you with
  • alternative sources of supply for the required component or
  • alternative solutions from other manufacturers

Lead time overview

At the moment we can offer you interesting delivery times for the following manufacturers within these product categories:

Please contact us if you would like to receive further information on the above-mentioned manufacturers.