B2B Portal Electronics

The new B2B portal electronics-b2b.com is a valuable source of information for electronics manufacturers, wholesalers, electronic components suppliers and managers in corporate electronics buying departments. The portal facilitates the search for electronics companies as well as a company’s global process of purchasing electronics.

In the past years, electronics have influenced our private and business lives tremendously. Computers are integral parts of industrial and office lives, but have also found their way into our private homes for data processing, entertainment or infotainment. Have a look at TV systems which developed from big, heavy boxes to fashionably designed living room accessories and home entertainment systems with elaborated audio electronic devices such as loudspeakers and amplifiers. Technological progress and new customer preferences changed the marketplace and the development of industrial and consumer electronics.

The electronics sector has gone international: Manufacturers, suppliers and wholesalers are represented around the world. Supply chain managers work together with international suppliers. The flow of commodities has gone international. Components for electrical devices are quite often provided by several international subcontractors. Digital and electrical standards ensure that electronic devices and components are comparable and compatible and offer customers a high quality product. Assuming that producers of cables or semiconductors have the same technological know-how and resources, a subcontractor in Germany or China might manufacture a component which a US dvd player factory implements in its end consumer products. Due to the ongoing globalisation in the electronics marketplace and the increasing importance of the internet when it comes to electronic purchasing, drop shipping is of great importance for the international electronics wholesale. It is quite common that retailers of consumer products, such as a DVD player, a computer or a video recorder, do not keep their products in stock. Instead, they forward customer and shipment details to international wholesalers who deliver the ordered goods directly to the end customers.

The demand for efficient, reliable and budget-oriented electronic parts strongly influences selling and buying electronics in the wholesale sector. Especially in the consumer electronics market, there has been a shift in the past years. Consumer demands are driven by a high level of automation and easy usage. Product innovation cycles have been constantly decreasing. Manufacturers and dealers face ever-falling prices, and most digital electronics have a planned obsolescence, which means that follow-up models are rapidly marketed. New business segments in the electronics sector emerge, as the amount of the so called E-waste has to be disposed and recycled correctly.