Mark Cox of eChannelLine writes:

Ingram Micro will shed 550 jobs in North America, as part of an outsourcing plan announced Monday designed to significantly improve operating efficiencies and realign and consolidate specific business operations. The job functions that will be affected are transaction-oriented service and support functions, including some in finance and shared services, customer service, vendor management, technical support and inside sales. Field sales and management positions will not be affected. In all less than 5 percent of the total North American sales force will be impacted.

Almost half the layoffs will come in Ingram Micro’s main offices in Santa Ana, CA. The operations in Canada and in Buffalo New York, where North American finance and technical support operations have been respectively located, will also see significant cuts, making up almost all the rest, split fairly evenly between them. Less than five per cent will come from other facilities throughout North America.

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Another nail in the coffin of the American working man. Makes me wonder if Ingram is paying any U.S. taxes or if it’s off-shored its incorporation, too. That takes it off MY short list of good distributors!