This quarter’s employee spotlight highlights the achievements and tenure of Hans Boelen, an account executive from Fusion Worldwide’s Amsterdam office.
As we move throughout Q2, we will see the impacts of unpredictable disruptions unfold as we deal with additional raw material shortages on the horizon.
Shortages have continued to worsen due to demand growth in various sectors like 5G, automotive and IoT, ongoing raw material shortages and catastrophes.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive announced Dylan Chew, Global Director of Purchasing at Fusion Worldwide, as a Pro to Know in the semiconductor industry.
In the first half of 2020, the automotive industry took a hard hit from COVID-19 with demand nosediving, production shutdowns and allocation shifts focusing on telecommunications and industrial automation.
On Feb. 13, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the coast of Japan injuring 48 people in the Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures. This resulted in Renesas’ Naka factory being hit with a temporary blackout.
Elsie Neoh, a commodity manager at Fusion Worldwide, reports chip customers usually place bulk orders well ahead of time, but fulfillment is taking much longer than usual.