Electronic Component Sourcing

Enhance Your Manufacturing with a Smarter Supply Chain

Our resilient, diversified supply chain strategies ensure smooth, uninterrupted electronic component sourcing and production. By leveraging advanced technologies and our global partnerships, we help mitigate risk, minimize disruptions, and support sustained success in the electronics industry.

August Electronics > Supply Chain

End-to-end electronics supply chain solutions

Our fully integrated supply chain solution ensures efficiency and resilience. We don’t just source components; we provide a complete solution, ensuring your production lines stay active and agile. Leveraging a diverse supplier network and advanced procurement strategies, we navigate global challenges and maintain a consistent supply chain so you can focus on your core business.

With proactive obsolescence management, we track component lifecycles to identify shortages or replacements before they become issues. With continuous feedback and solutions throughout the product lifecycle, we help you preserve uptime, reduce costs, and improve product quality across your builds.

MANUFACTURING PROCESS

Our electronic component procurement process

REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS & STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

We start by analyzing your project needs and crafting a tailored sourcing strategy. By understanding your product specifications in detail, we develop a comprehensive plan that aligns with cost, quality, and lead time expectations.

STRATEGIC COMPONENT SOURCING

Our team uses a trusted global network to source electronic components that meet your technical and operational requirements. We ensure timely access to parts that keep your production moving.

INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION

With advanced tracking systems, we monitor lead times, inventory levels, and supply needs. This allows us to maintain consistent access to critical components while minimizing excess inventory.

OBSOLESCENCE MONITORING

We stay ahead of component obsolescence by tracking the lifecycle of each part used in production. Our proactive strategies include identifying and sourcing suitable replacements well before parts become scarce and mitigating potential disruptions to your operations.

BOM INTEGRITY & UPDATING

We manage your Bill of Materials (BOM) and continuously optimize it for accuracy and efficiency. This includes sourcing the necessary components and updating the BOM to reflect changes in part availability or specifications. Our updates ensure your BOM remains accurate and ready for production.

PRODUCTION INTEGRATION

Once components are sourced, managed, and quality-assured, they are smoothly integrated into production. Our transparent workflows and rigorous coordination guarantee seamless handoffs, ensuring that your project progresses efficiently without delays.

TESTIMONIALS

Trusted partnerships.
Proven results.

Working with August Electronics has been a very positive experience—they’ve provided us with both populated PCBs and full-turnkey products. We highly recommend August Electronics and look forward to future business with them.

John B.
Purchasing Coordinator, Agriculture Management Solutions OEM

“August provides us with turnkey electronics manufacturing services. They are reliable, help us get quality products to our customers, and help us source parts and build our demo units.”

Ian W.
Contract Manufacturer Coordinator, Oil Field Services Company

”It has been our pleasure to deal with August Electronics for the past 5 years. We have been extremely pleased with August’s responsiveness and flexibility. We continue to have full confidence in August’s ability to meet our manufacturing requirements now and in the future.”

Len J.
President, Oilfield Production Monitoring Equipment Company

“August Electronics has enabled us to streamline our manufacturing operations and focus on our core competencies. By providing us with turnkey contract manufacturing from board builds, assembling and direct ship to our end users, we rely on August to ship us quality products on time so that we can meet our customers’ needs.”

Ian W.
Contract Manufacturer Coordinator, Oil Field Services Company

“August Electronics assembles, troubleshoots, and repairs a wide variety of products designed by our hardware team. They seamlessly handle all the behind-the-scenes details for us, so we can focus on product development, deployment, and servicing our customers at oil and gas drilling rigs. Whether it’s a fast-paced new product introduction or repairing products designed 15+ years ago, they demonstrate agility, flexibility, and high attention to quality in everything they do.”

Daniel S.
Hardware Sustaining Manager, Oil Field Services Company

"August Electronics is a leader among our manufacturing partners for value, quality, and service. They go the extra mile to make sure our projects are successful."

Curtis L.
Owner, Recreational Automotive Control Systems Manufacturer

WHY AUGUST ELECTRONICS

Why choose August as your electronic component sourcing partner

END-TO-END TURNKEY SERVICES

We provide complete, end-to-end supply chain management that covers everything from sourcing to final production. This approach reduces complexity, saves time, and maximizes efficiency, allowing clients to focus on core business activities instead of logistical challenges.

RELIABLE SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE

Our resilient supply chain model, built on a diverse supplier network and strategic sourcing, helps maintain consistent production even during global disruptions. Our clients trust us to navigate challenges and ensure timely access to quality components.

PROACTIVE COMPONENT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

With proactive lifecycle management, we monitor components for obsolescence and source alternatives before they become unavailable. This foresight helps avoid costly surprises and keeps your production on track.

NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION (NPI) SUPPORT

Our supply chain services are particularly beneficial for New Product Introduction (NPI) projects. We collaborate closely with clients to ensure that all components are designed for manufacturability and cost-effectiveness, enabling a smooth transition from prototype to full-scale production.

We make sure it works every time

Our rigorous testing strategies eliminate risks and ensure your product’s reliability. Every component sourced through our supply chain undergoes rigorous quality checks, including lifecycle assessments, functional validation, and AQL inspections to ensure compliance and reliability in production.

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CONTACT US

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    We leverage a diversified global supplier network of authorized suppliers for effective component sourcing with built-in flexibility. This enables us to ensure timely delivery, keeping your production schedule on track even when market conditions are volatile.

    We proactively monitor component lifecycles and identify alternatives before obsolete parts become problematic. Our proactive approach and strong relationships with critical component manufacturers and authorized distributors in the electronic component industry allow us to find suitable replacements quickly, embracing new technology and keeping production unaffected.

    Our approach includes a combination of supplier diversification, working with authorized and reliable suppliers, localized sourcing, and advanced technologies to mitigate the impact of supply chain disruptions. We maintain a flexible supply chain that adapts to changing conditions, ensuring consistent availability of electronic parts.

    We provide complete BOM management services, including sourcing components, maintaining BOM accuracy, and making timely updates throughout production. This reduces risks and keeps your production uninterrupted.

    Turnkey solutions let us handle everything from electronic component sourcing services to production. This end-to-end solution reduces complexity, saves time, and optimizes efficiency compared to consigned orders, which require more hands-on effort from clients. By managing it all in-house, we help our clients save money and skip a time-consuming process.

    Our diversified, reliable supplier network, localized sourcing options, and advanced inventory management technologies help us mitigate risks from supply chain disruptions. These strategies ensure our clients’ production remains on track, regardless of the market environment, and allow us to offer different sourcing options to meet changing demand.

    We optimize inventory by balancing stock levels and lead times, using advanced tracking systems to ensure critical components are available when needed. We keep this information accessible through routine reporting with our customers.