Avnet sees Japan quake supply disruptions as temporary

“My opinion is the [electronics] supply chain has the ability to adjust fairly quickly,” stated Harley Feldberg, president of Avnet Electronics Marketing, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “I’m talking months.” In Feldberg's view, reducing disruptions to customers’ activities in many instances boils down to placing early orders for components or finding other stockpiles, and working to smooth out deliveries so that related products all arrive within the same timeframe.

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