Avnet Site is Down

Well, essentially down.  They are revamping it and it looks like this 
was such a big job they just can't continue with business while they do 
work on installing it.  Even orders by phone is down until Wednesday.

I wanted to dig for some info on getting started with their Smartfusion2 
Kickstart board and there is nothing there.  All you can get to is the 
(new) main page.

-- 

Rick

On 2016-04-04, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, essentially down.  They are revamping it and it looks like this 
> was such a big job they just can't continue with business while they do 
> work on installing it.  Even orders by phone is down until Wednesday.
>
> I wanted to dig for some info on getting started with their Smartfusion2 
> Kickstart board and there is nothing there.  All you can get to is the 
> (new) main page.
>

Not knowing anything about the website, the generic suggestion is to
try web.archive.org especially if you have some direct URLs and see
if anything is archived there. The information archived there
represents the website at various specific points in the past however.

For a probably more up to date version of the website, there's always
the Google Cache option when you do a search query. Try filtering your
Google search queries with "site:avnet.com" as part of the query and
then look at the cached version against each query (if Google cached
the specific URL).

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

On 4/5/2016 1:49 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-04-04, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, essentially down.  They are revamping it and it looks like this
>> was such a big job they just can't continue with business while they do
>> work on installing it.  Even orders by phone is down until Wednesday.
>>
>> I wanted to dig for some info on getting started with their Smartfusion2
>> Kickstart board and there is nothing there.  All you can get to is the
>> (new) main page.
>>
>
> Not knowing anything about the website, the generic suggestion is to
> try web.archive.org especially if you have some direct URLs and see
> if anything is archived there. The information archived there
> represents the website at various specific points in the past however.
>
> For a probably more up to date version of the website, there's always
> the Google Cache option when you do a search query. Try filtering your
> Google search queries with "site:avnet.com" as part of the query and
> then look at the cached version against each query (if Google cached
> the specific URL).

If I just wait until tomorrow they should be back online.  Some pieces 
of it are showing up today.  It's just strange they would do a roll out 
in such a manner where it is down for days and they can't even take 
orders by phone!

-- 

Rick

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 2:02:29 PM UTC-4, rickman wrote:
> ....  It's just strange they would do a roll out 
> in such a manner where it is down for days and they can't even take 
> orders by phone!

Strange, no, all too common.
Costly and Dumb, yes.
But, they surely saved money using inexpensive developer and ops staff...

And, they saved money using SAP!

April 5, 2016
Dear Valued Partner,
As I previously communicated to you in March, Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) Americas is set to transition to an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, enabled by SAP. We have spent the last two years preparing for our system launch and we are now just a few days away.

We started our final conversion last Friday, April 1 and we are on schedule to launch our new system on Wednesday, April 6. We have prepared a robust post-launch support plan so our team may quickly address potential issues that may arise in a project of this complexity.

Important Information
 
  	* 	

 During the transition:
- We will maintain critical support to address customer and supplier needs
- Order processing, maintenance and shipments are suspended

  	* 	 Suppliers who have data mapped to our system will need to finish any mappings by Wednesday (April 6)

Questions or Concerns?

Should you have any questions, please contact your Avnet representative or email me at EdSmith-Comments@Avnet.com.

Thank you in advance for your support and cooperation in this endeavor.
Regards,
Signed: Ed Smith

On 4/6/2016 8:37 AM, Dave Nadler wrote:
> And, they saved money using SAP!

What *is* SAP?

> April 5, 2016
> Dear Valued Partner,
> As I previously communicated to you in March, Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) Americas is set to transition to an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, enabled by SAP. We have spent the last two years preparing for our system launch and we are now just a few days away.
>
> We started our final conversion last Friday, April 1 and we are on schedule to launch our new system on Wednesday, April 6. We have prepared a robust post-launch support plan so our team may quickly address potential issues that may arise in a project of this complexity.
>
> Important Information
>
>    	* 	
>
>   During the transition:
> - We will maintain critical support to address customer and supplier needs
> - Order processing, maintenance and shipments are suspended
>
>    	* 	 Suppliers who have data mapped to our system will need to finish any mappings by Wednesday (April 6)
>
> Questions or Concerns?
>
> Should you have any questions, please contact your Avnet representative or email me at EdSmith-Comments@Avnet.com.
>
> Thank you in advance for your support and cooperation in this endeavor.
> Regards,
> Signed: Ed Smith
>


-- 

Rick

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 11:33:33 AM UTC-4, rickman wrote:
> What *is* SAP?

You are much better off for not knowing...

rickman wrote:

> On 4/6/2016 8:37 AM, Dave Nadler wrote:
>> And, they saved money using SAP!
>
> What *is* SAP?

It's what you feel like having spent two years and millions of dollars
on an "everything integration system" that forces you to redesign every
business task you do while still leaving a thousand loose ends you have
to manually keep track of.

-- 
Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com

Email address domain is currently out of order.  See above to fix.

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 11:33:32 -0400, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 4/6/2016 8:37 AM, Dave Nadler wrote:
>> And, they saved money using SAP!
>
>What *is* SAP?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_Business_Suite

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 12:52:01 PM UTC-4, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> rickman wrote:
> 
> > On 4/6/2016 8:37 AM, Dave Nadler wrote:
> >> And, they saved money using SAP!
> >
> > What *is* SAP?
> 
> It's what you feel like having spent two years and millions of dollars
> on an "everything integration system" that forces you to redesign every
> business task you do while still leaving a thousand loose ends you have
> to manually keep track of.

And, drives your customers to competitors when they can no longer
place orders (as above). After promising it will do everything,
$2MM is an "easy" integration/customization. Right after deployment,
your spend is rendered obsolete by the next version, with which
your customizations don't work. If your company is still in business...