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ScanSource supplies resellers and technology service providers with the equipment, software and services they need for their customers. Its Specialty Technology Solutions business, operating mainly in the United States and Brazil, brings in most revenue through wholesale resale. Products include barcode equipment, point-of-sale systems and networking technology. ScanSource can combine suppliers’ offerings, configure equipment and provide technical support, shipping and credit to its partners.
A smaller business, Intelisys & Advisory, follows a different route. Intelisys helps channel partners arrange connectivity and cloud services from outside providers and earns recurring agency commissions. Providers bill end users for those services; Advisory also sells services directly to end users.
The business depends heavily on access to suppliers: products from its largest suppliers generate most revenue, with Cisco and Zebra particularly important. Supplier agreements generally allow termination on short notice, and some limit where ScanSource may distribute products. The resale business also needs capital to hold inventory and extend credit while waiting for partners to pay.
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ScanSource’s results hinge on specialty technology demand and recurring connectivity and cloud commissions, with Avant and Telarus worth watching as important Intelisys competitors missing from this list.
Ingram Micro competes with ScanSource for resellers buying technology products, cloud subscriptions and supporting services, putting ScanSource’s prices and margins under pressure. Watch Ingram Micro’s cloud subscription business and reseller credit terms, two areas where the companies compete for customers.
TD SYNNEX competes with ScanSource to sell networking, software and other technology products to resellers, so product availability, pricing and channel support matter to ScanSource’s margins. Its networking and software distribution business is the relevant comparison, rather than its purpose-built systems for hyperscale customers.
ScanSource depends on Zebra Technologies for barcode, mobile-computing and related products it resells to channel partners; these products made up more than 10% of ScanSource’s net sales in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026. Zebra’s mobile-computer and barcode-product sales are therefore worth watching for ScanSource’s specialty technology business.
ScanSource relies on Cisco networking and communications products for more than 10% of its net sales in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, selling them to channel partners through distribution and agency arrangements. Watch Cisco agreement renewals: ScanSource’s U.S. and Brazil distribution agreements require written renewal and can be terminated by either party on 30 days’ notice.
Wesco competes with ScanSource in distributing specialty technology for communications and physical-security deployments, adding pressure on prices and customer retention. Wesco supplies businesses and telecommunications providers with products and logistics services; its product availability and delivery capabilities matter where those offerings overlap with ScanSource’s.
Climb Global Solutions competes with ScanSource for resellers and systems integrators buying software, networking and related technology products. Watch Climb’s distribution sales in those categories, where both companies buy from technology suppliers and resell to channel customers.
Arrow Electronics’ enterprise-computing distribution business overlaps with ScanSource’s: both supply IT hardware and infrastructure software to channel resellers.
Enterprise spending on networking, security, cloud and collaboration infrastructure matters to both ePlus and ScanSource: ePlus builds solutions for enterprise customers using many of the vendors whose products ScanSource sells to channel partners. Watch ePlus’s integrated infrastructure solution sales for a view of customer spending across these shared technology categories.
AudioCodes supplies enterprise voice-networking products through ScanSource, but the disclosed dependence runs toward AudioCodes: ScanSource’s purchases accounted for 9.3% of AudioCodes’ revenue in the year ended December 31, 2025. Those purchases are for resale or fulfilling other customers’ orders, not ScanSource’s own use, making this channel business the relevant signal for ScanSource’s communications sales.
Climb Global Solutions, Inc. earningsCLMB
Climb Global Solutions' report shows whether resellers are still buying software and networking products through distributors, the same channel ScanSource serves.
Read Climb's software and networking distribution sales alongside its distribution gross profit. Growth in both would point to solid channel buying in overlapping categories, but would not prove ScanSource is winning more orders. Falling sales, or sales growth with weaker gross profit, would raise the risk of softer demand or tougher pricing. The report helps show whether ScanSource faces a firm channel market or more pressure to hold sales and profit.
Ingram Micro Holding Corporation earningsINGM
Ingram Micro's report can show how its reseller credit terms are changing, a factor in the payment terms and collection risk ScanSource faces when competing for the same customers.
Watch for changes in Ingram Micro's disclosed reseller payment terms and receivables. Longer terms and rising receivables could mean it is supporting customer purchases with more credit, putting pressure on ScanSource to compete on payment terms and tying up more of its working capital. Tighter terms and less receivable pressure could ease that competition, but also mean customers have less financing support for purchases. The takeaway is whether winning channel orders may require ScanSource to take on more collection risk.
Zebra Technologies Corporation earningsZBRA
Zebra Technologies' report shows sales of mobile computers and barcode products, an important product category that ScanSource resells.
Focus on Zebra's mobile-computer and barcode-product sales. Stronger sales would support demand for an important product line ScanSource resells; weaker sales could weigh on ScanSource's sales in that line. Zebra's results do not establish ScanSource's own shipments or customer purchases, but they help show whether demand behind this important supplier relationship is firm or soft.
Scansource Inc earningsThis company
ScanSource earns most of its revenue from distributing products, and this report will show whether that growth leaves more profit after product costs and whether recurring revenue is keeping up.
Start with Specialty Technology Solutions sales and gross margin, the share of sales left after product costs. Higher sales with a stable or rising margin mean the main distribution business is turning more sales into gross profit; higher sales with a falling margin mean prices or product costs are eating into that growth. Then read Intelisys & Advisory's recurring revenue separately: growth there would show agency commissions, managed connectivity and subscriptions adding repeat income; flat or falling revenue would leave growth more dependent on product distribution. Together, these figures show whether ScanSource's growth has both profit support and a recurring-income base.
ePlus Inc earningsPLUS
ePlus's report shows whether enterprise customers are buying networking, security, cloud and collaboration infrastructure, categories ScanSource also sells through channel partners.
Watch ePlus's integrated infrastructure solution sales. Growth would suggest enterprise spending on networking, security, cloud and collaboration projects is holding up, which could support channel demand for ScanSource's related products; a decline could point to delayed or smaller projects. ePlus sells solutions to enterprise customers, while ScanSource mainly supplies channel partners, so this is an end-demand signal, not a direct count of ScanSource orders.
