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8 Supply Chain Design Rules for Engineers
In this article, I summarize some points from a lecture that I gave at Hong…
Disregard Price Benchmarking at Your Own Risk
Not benchmarking your electronic component spend? If so, continue to disregard this critical diagnostic at…
Purchasing: The Status Quo Will Cost You
I am surprised by the number of supply chain and purchasing professionals that use the…
Benchmarking – Tried & True. What about your component spend?
Over the 4 years since our firm launched our electronic component benchmarking tool set, we’ve…
Market Price Normalization Improves Competitiveness
When we assess a new client’s spending against market pricing, we usually see a distribution…
Wanted: Lean and Benchmarking ‘Sensei’
To companies focused on operational excellence, Lean Principles and the discipline of Benchmarking are considered…
The Ideal Purchasing Professional
Is there such a thing as an ideal purchasing professional and, if so, what traits…
Purchasing: Do You Really Understand Pricing?
Since my company, Lytica Inc., introduced analytics based price prediction for electronic components, many major…
Take the Embedded Inefficiencies Test
I have been absent from the blog scene for the past few months because I…
