In a recent blog, I attempted to dispel the myth that there is a clear relationship between volume and price of electronic components. Many still find this hard to believe. They hold to the idea that price is somehow tied to manufacturing cost, which is related to volume. This is rarely the case in the […]
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In a previous blog, I discussed some of the myths surrounding the relationship between price and volume. Another often misunderstood subject is “security of supply.” In analyzing our clients’ component spending, we frequently see unnecessary costs incurred that create an expensive (and often false) sense of “supply security.” Lytica’s freebenchmarking.com reports reveal the exorbitant dollars
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