Smith & Associates

Smith & Associates, who is currently ranked as No.1 by Purchasing and Electronic Business in Independent Distribution of electronic components and semiconductors, including CPUs, memory, integrate circuits and peripheral devices, etc. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Smith is an international trading/service center, with 9 offices on three continents. Smith multi lingual supporting staff works around the clock in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia/Pacific.

As an open-market leader, Smith has more than 20 years successful track record in providing flexibility and responsiveness to deliver timely and unique solution to meet dynamic supply chain challenges. Smith customers compete in the global computing, telecom, automotive, consumer electronics, aviation equipment, medical technology, and other electronics sectors.

Smith & Associates offers each customer:

- 24-hour availability

- Competitive prices

- Comprehensive availability & inventory

- Credit terms

- Fast turn-around & fast quotes

- Freight-forwarding & drop-shipping

- Hard-to-find products

- On-time delivery

- Open-market pricing via the Internet

- Superior customer service

- Surplus and excess stock management

- Solutions to shortage and sourcing problems

Smith also offers a full suite of in-house, value-added services that follow EIA standards and ESD controls. In addition, each shipment is personally inspected to ensure that orders are shipped correctly. Smith value-added services include:

- Bar code labeling

- Cable & electro-mechanical assembly

- Component & module programming

- Component & module testing

- Excess stock management

- Hard drive testing & verifications

- Lead trimming & forming

- Microprocessor testing & verification

- Scheduled delivery orders

- SMD tape & reel

- Special & to-the-minute deliveries

- Special packaging

- Through-hole tape & reel