Inventory management in the field of electronic finished goods and electronic components; inventory management services for sourcing, requisition, procurement, inspection, shipment, and delivery of electronic finished goods and electronic components; inventory management services for pricing history and trends, and business intelligence related to electronic finished goods and electronic components; inventory management for tracking customer requirements and correlating customer requirements with inventory information; inventory management for the selling and buying of electronic finished goods and electronic components; providing a web-based on-line portal that provides customers access to their sales account information, order history, and market history and trends, provides customers access to transportation logistics information in the nature of the current location of products on order, provides customers with inventory management information and supplier inventory information, provides customers with pricing, sourcing, inspections, and testing information, and provides customers with distribution of communications and information, all in the field of electronic finished goods and electronic components