Established in 1996, Aztec Components is among the leading independent components distributors. The company has supplied active, passive and peripheral components to some of the world's largest original equipment manufacturers. Its value-added services include scheduling, component testing and quality assurance, tape and reeling, bonded inventory programs, support bar coding and certification of compliance. It also provides excess inventory management services that include consigning of excess inventories, purchasing excess inventories from all original equipment manufacturers and providing extensive stock of OEM excesses. Aztec Components is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif.