Avnet Abacus is a pan-European business-to-business

Business-to-business

Business-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...

 distributor of electrical components, focusing on interconnect, passive

Passivity (engineering)

Passivity is a property of engineering systems, used in a variety of engineering disciplines, but most commonly found in analog electronics and control systems...

, electromechanics, power supply

Power supply

A power supply is a device that supplies electrical energy to one or more electric loads. The term is most commonly applied to devices that convert one form of electrical energy to another, though it may also refer to devices that convert another form of energy to electrical energy...

 and battery products, (IP&E). Avnet Abacus is the unification of Avnet Time and the interconnect, passive, emech and battery business of Abacus Group, acquired by Avnet in January 2009.

Avnet Abacus is a business unit of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, a business region of Avnet

Avnet

Avnet, Inc. is a technology Business-to-business B2B distributor headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Electronics Supply & Manufacturing magazine reports that Avnet Inc., a Fortune 500 company, may be the world's largest franchised distributor of electronic components and subsystems...

.

Distribution Services

Avnet Logistics Services provides specialised supply chain and logistics services to the global electronics industry. Services include:

• Supply Chain Solutions
  Supply chain management
  Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...
  
  : Just-in-time delivery, Kanban
  Kanban
  , also spelled kamban, and literally meaning "signboard" or "billboard", is a concept related to lean and just-in-time production. According to Taiichi Ohno, the man credited with developing Just-in-time, kanban is one means through which JIT is achieved.Kanban is not an inventory control system...
  
  , consignment stock
  Consignment Stock
  Consignment stock is stock legally owned by one party, but held by another.- Ownership :Ownership of consignment stock is passed only when the stock is used . Unused stock in a warehouse may be returned to the supplier.- Accounting :...
  
   and Electronic Data Interchange
  Electronic Data Interchange
  Electronic data interchange is the structured transmission of data between organizations by electronic means. It is used to transfer electronic documents or business data from one computer system to another computer system, i.e...
  
   (EDI)
• Point-of-Use Replenishment Program (POURS)
• Obsolescence Services
• Pareto
• Vendor managed inventory
  Vendor Managed Inventory
  Vendor-managed inventory is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material, usually at the buyer's consumption location .A...
  
   (VMI)
• Supply Chain Assessment

Our logistics service is fulfilled by the European Distribution Centre (EDC) in Tongeren, Belgium and Avnet Logistics Services, UK based in Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town in Staffordshire, England, and is the principal town of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It is part of The Potteries Urban Area and North Staffordshire. In the 2001 census the town had a population of 73,944...

Offices

Avnet Abacus has 40 offices in 18 countries

General Information

• Company Name: Avnet Abacus
• President: Graham McBeth
• Founded: July 2009
• Headquarters: Poing, Germany
  Poing, Germany
  Poing is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg, lying east of central Munich.-Geography:Poing is approximately NE of Munich and is serviced by the Munich S-Bahn and MVV Bus systems. Poing has two...
  
  
• Employees: 430
• Parent Company: Avnet Inc

Products

Interconnect	Passive	Electromechanical	Power & Batteries
I/O	Capacitors	Switches	Filters
Wire-to-board	Resistors	Keypads	Magnetics
Cable assemblies	Potentiometers & encoders	Relays	AC-DC power supplies
Socket CPU socket A CPU socket or CPU slot is a mechanical component that provides mechanical and electrical connections between a microprocessor and a printed circuit board . This allows the CPU to be replaced without soldering.... s	Inductors & chokes	Fan Computer fan A computer fan is any fan inside, or attached to, a computer case used for cooling purposes, and may refer to fans that draw cooler air into the case from the outside, expel warm air from inside, or move air across a heatsink to cool a particular component... s	DC-DC converters
Power	Filters	Heatsinks	Point of load
Backplane Backplane A backplane is a group of connectors connected in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors forming a computer bus. It is used as a backbone to connect several printed circuit boards together to make up a complete...	Circuit protection	Circuit breakers	Design your own
Lighting	Timing devices	Sensors	Batteries
Rectangular	Sensors	Motors
Board-to-board	Acoustic devices
Terminal blocks	Antennas	Enclosures