Ingram Micro Inc. is outsourcing about 80 people in its technology department, including around 45 workers locally, a company spokesman said Friday.
The Santa Ana-based technology products distributor will send the jobs offshore, though a location hasn’t been determined.
The company, which did about $29 billion in sales annually last year, employs about 13,000 internationally.
The outsourcing will affect workers who tackle software coding, testing and quality assurance.
The move will give the company more flexibility in ramping up and scaling back on software projects that connect product makers with product resellers.
Last year the company outsourced workers in finance, customer service, vendor management and inside sales, among other areas, affecting about 250 people locally.
Ingram will offer severance packages and outplacement services to workers affected by the outsourcing, the spokesman said.
The company said it still has dozens of openings in areas such as marketing. Ingram Micro is Orange County’s largest company by revenue.
