SEMI Supply Chain Management Initiative
The SEMI Supply Chain Management initiative is a unique global platform that brings together top industry leaders to advance a more resilient and agile electronics supply chain
The initiative’s Industry Advisory Council is committed to driving engagement, creating tools and solutions through collaboration, and ensuring alignment in global end-to-end supply chain continuity, visibility, and transparency.
Through working groups, educational forums, benchmarking, standards development, and strategic partnerships, SEMI seeks to empower our members so they can anticipate and respond to future disruptions proactively.
The global SEMI Supply Chain Management (SCM) Initiative leverages SEMI’s broad and deep industry reach to unite member companies from every sector of the microelectronics ecosystem to collectively identify and address pressing supply chain challenges. The initiative is committed to driving engagement, facilitating data collection, and ensuring alignment in global end-to-end supply chain continuity.
Supply Chain Initiative Goals
Semiconductors have become ubiquitous in recent years, with all aspects of society having become extremely dependent on chips. Demand has expanded from traditional applications for PCs and mobile phones to include automobiles and other connected applications, fueled by 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) to propel the Intelligent Data Age. The electronics industry has been severely challenged by new disruptors that have accelerated in magnitude and frequency and have exposed the inherent vulnerabilities and interdependencies of multi-tier, global supplier relationships.
The new disruptors include:
- Increasing geopolitical conflicts that point to the need for integrated and aligned global policies that often remain elusive and uncoordinated
- Escalating unplanned events such as natural disasters and pandemics
- Heightened global focus on sustainability, safety, and security
Main Pillars of the SEMI SCM Initiative
- Engagement: Establish Global (and later Regional) Industry Advisory Councils to guide priorities
- Collaboration: Create Collaboration platforms for informtion exchange, education and thought leadership
- Benchmarking: Conduct Quarterly SCM pulse surveys with McKinsey & Company to track industry dynamics and benchmark best practices
- Industry Alignment: Drive standards for SCM visibility and tranparency through SEMI’s International Standards Program
- Develop a SCM industry blueprint to chart a robust path forward for all supply chain segments
Top Supply Chain Challenges identified by SEMI member companies
- Insufficient electronics supply chain-specific market data and metrics to enable faster decision making
- No dedicated global forum to share benchmarks, best practices and ROI clarity to ease implementations and validate investments
- Lack of understanding of supply chain complexities related to multi-tier, global supply chains:
- Visibility
- Transparency
- Resiliency
- Lack of supply chain talent to accelerate adoption of AI and advanced supply chain capabilities
Survey Overview
As part of its global Supply Chain Management (SCM) initiative, SEMI, in collaboration with McKinsey & Company, is conducting its fourth annual Semiconductor Supply Chain Survey tailored specifically to the microelectronics industry. The 2025 survey covers the entire value chain including material suppliers, equipment manufacturers, IDMs, Fabless, Foundry, OSATs, OEMs, and service providers.
Share your insights to benchmark operational agility metrics
We also encourage you to share the survey link with appropriate members of your organization as well as your extended customer and supplier network whose insights are crucial for specific semiconductor categories or functions.
SEMI and McKinsey & Co. will aggregate, anonymize, and analyze the results and share the findings, enabling you to benchmark against your peers, swiftly identify key issues and course-correct in near-real time.
Please complete the form at the end of the survey to receive the comprehensive report of the survey results analysis and an invitation to the live webinar. Survey The Survey Report-out Webinar will be shared on July
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About SEMI
SEMI is a catalyst for connection, collaboration and innovation, helping the semiconductor industry to deploy life changing tech worldwide. Through its programs, communities, initiatives, products, and advocacy, SEMI informs its members, cultivates industry collaboration, drives action, and synchronizes innovation.
SEMI President and CEO Ajit Manocha has championed semiconductor industry collaboration for four decades, served as CEO of GlobalFoundries, and been named to two Hall of Fames. Ajit inspires the industry and SEMI forward with endless energy for new ideas to deliver more value to our members.
About Wooptix
Wooptix is a leader in semiconductor metrology using wavefront phase imaging, a technique derived from adaptive optics research in astronomy. With a multidisciplinary team, Wooptix aims to revolutionize the semiconductor metrology industry with the highest lateral resolution and fastest measurement technique for online factory measurements.
The company has developed Phemet®, a silicon wafer measurement tool, which is the precursor to the next fully automated manufacturing tool expected in 2025. Wooptix has already implemented Phemet® at various customer sites worldwide. Wooptix is headquartered in Tenerife, Madrid (Spain), and San Francisco (USA).