Fast and efficient procurement with Avnet's API
Procurement information that drives innovation
Avnet’s API service delivers detailed, real-time information about products that helps you make the best purchasing decisions. APIs from Avnet support a wide range of software platforms and improve your supply chain by enabling you to better manage your procurement process. This allows you to focus on delivering value to your customer and dependably bring innovation to market.
By connecting to the Avnet API, your procurement system will be directly communicating to the Avnet system.
From supply chain to design chain — including components and logistics — it’s what we do. Avnet is your trusted global supply chain technology partner delivering innovation for the last century.
The benefits of Avnet’s API service
Speed
The real-time response provided by an API connection will save you time in data gathering and allow you more time to work on your solutions and serving your customers
Efficiency
An API can help automate tasks that are important but very administrative. By providing the information directly to you system, you can easily leverage your own company systems and swiftly reach decisions
Data Quality
The system to system exchange of data takes out the opportunity for errors of a manual process
Omnichannel
An API via Avnet provides you yet another channel through which we can work together, with same consistent information you will find from your local Avnet representative or through your website account
Customer API (getPriceAndQty)
Description
The JSON REST Web Service getPriceAndQty provides the price, available quantity and other material attributes. (Note: SOAP Web Service is available as well.)
| Description | Mandatory |
| Request part number | Yes |
| Request manufacturer | No |
| Request quantity | No |
| Unit of Measure No | No |
| Request currency | No |
| Maximal results per line | No |
| Ultimate End Customer | No |
Response Line
| Description |
| Manufacturer |
| Offered quantity |
| Available quantity |
| Minimum order quantity |
| Package |
| Package Quantity |
| Material status |
| End of life date |
| RoHS Definition |
| Price |
| Currency |
| Lead time in days |
| Departure country |
| Export control class |
| Message |
| Material Description |
| Material number intern (SKU) |
Endpoint URL
Besides the production endpoint, an additional endpoint for technical testing is available on demand.
Security
The calling IP addresses will be restricted to a limited range. Please take this in consideration when calling services provided by this API. Please also make sure that the endpoint port of the API is whitelisted.
Rate limit check: The number of request lines per minute and customer is restricted to 100. Additional requests will be rejected. The message text is e.g. 040 ‘Rate limit (call lines per minute) exceeded: 101’
The number of daily calls is restricted to 1000 calls a day.
The authorization takes place via the “Basic” HTTP authentication schema. Credentials (user name / password) will be provided by SCS EMEA based on AVNET EMEA business requests. Depending upon the different AVNET EMEA business (“SPEEDBOAT”) you would like to connect to, three different sets of credentials could be required.