What to Look for When Sourcing from an Independent Electronic Component Distributor

The stress of buying obsolete, allocated and hard-to-find electronic components from independent distributors is enormous. This is not only due to having to find products on time and on-budget, but also the uncertainty of buying authentic parts from unreliable independent distributors. In today’s uncertain market, as a buyer, you must ask yourself: “What should I look for when choosing an independent electronic component distributor for my most difficult and urgent procurement needs?”

Imagine this scenario: You are a buyer for an electronic manufacturer. There is a critical requirement that you need to find availability on, and you choose Lintech Components as your source, as you have heard they recently expanded their inventory portfolio, and are industry experts when it comes to obsolete and hard to find components.

You find that Lintech Components went above and beyond your expectations, providing a quote on these critical component requirements within minutes of your original request. The components showed up on your dock not only within the required delivery period—but earlier than scheduled, allowing you to begin working on the next item on your queue.  You wonder: How did such a seamless sales process occur?

Several key elements have made Lintech Components a trusted industry source for obsolete, allocated, and hard-to-find components.

1. Supplying Quality Products- Maintaining the highest level of quality has been a critical objective of Lintech Components for the 20 plus years we have been in business. Recognizing that component counterfeiting is an industry wide problem requiring an industry wide solution, Lintech has made significant investments to combat counterfeit components in today’s uncertain market.

Lintech has developed a multi-layered, zero-tolerance, proprietary counterfeit avoidance program called the “Component Authenticity Protection Program” (C.A.P.P). This program provides reliable testing and risk mitigation and ensures that our clients are thoroughly protected from counterfeit components.

Lintech’s project management and logistic experience provides a consistent and systematic approach to our product screening processes with each incoming part inspection. Lintech works to effectively combat counterfeiting with our rigorous inspection process performed by our professionally trained IDEA-ICE-3000 inspectors. Our state of the art quality management system is ISO 9001, AS9120, CCAP-101, and ESD S20.20 certified. We are also compliant with the IDEA 1010B inspection process and the AS6081 standard.

Lintech is dedicated to adhering to government and industry best practices, achieved by obtaining the above industry certifications, along with our alignment to leading industry associations including the Independent Distributor of Electronics Association (IDEA) and the Government Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP).

2. Extensive Inventory- Lintech’s recently enhanced inventory portfolio now manages approximately 300,000 line items of inventory for same day shipments.  Lintech Components continues to build our inventory portfolio to provide just-in-time inventory solutions for our highly valued customers whom often come across critical requirements.

3. Providing Quality People– Our team is our most valuable resource, and the main reason for Lintech’s success. Lintech’s expertly trained account executives have over 75 years of combined experience -offering the advanced product knowledge of a franchised distributor, combined with the problem solving resources of a global independent supplier.  Decades of market intelligence give Lintech a solid ground to offer quality alternative solutions that match our customer’s buying expectations, and enable Lintech to fulfill even the most difficult requirements. Lintech’ strategic Account Managers offer quality customer service and our specialized technical team handles sourcing, procurement and product management all to meet and exceed the needs of our customers.

4. Providing Timely Delivery – Lintech’s continuously expanding inventory gives us the ability to provide just in time inventory solutions, on-time and on-budget.  Lintech currently has a 98% proven corporate on-time delivery rate.

Lintech strives to exceed our customers' expectations with every shipment. Opportunities for improvement in our quality management system are determined by measurement and analysis of key processes including contract review, corrective/preventative action, detailed documented inspection, on-time delivery, continuous evaluation of suppliers, customer feedback, and control of nonconforming material.