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The Rate of Acceleration and Its Effect on the Supply Chain’s Future (Part 2)

It’s not news that COVID-19 flipped the supply chain ecosystem on its head, revealing cracks in an industry ripe for disruption. The gap it caused between supply and demand made it hard to get an holistic overview of the market, as quality, supplier search, and price fluctuations were in disarray. Not to mention, the ‘acceleration […]

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The Acceleration of Everything: How Technology Evolves (Part 1)

The world around us is changing fast, and the effect on the electronic Supply Chain is no exception. Companies that are winning today are not doing what their predecessors did 10 years ago. Given that things are moving faster, supply chain companies are in a race to ensure business processes allow for more efficiency in

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Data, Mastery & Culture 2022

When I conceived of Spend Benchmark, I believed that profiling material’s spending against real market prices would be a valuable metric for companies buying electronic components. When we added the ability to identify and quantify actionable savings at the component level, this metric transformed into an invaluable tool for cost management. That was our belief.

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Supply Chain Learnings 2021

With a tumultuous 2021 coming to a close, what are you doing to ensure you’re ready for 2022? Take a look at a few Supply Chain Learnings from 2021 and how to best prepare for the year ahead, whatever the electronic component market may bring.

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Aspirin & Vitamins

Reactive & Proactive Approaches to a Stronger Supply Chain Lytica is the world’s only provider of electronic component spend analytics and risk intelligence using real customer data. The SupplyLens™ Pro platform was built with one primary goal: arm our customers with the data and analysis they need to build better and stronger supply chains. We

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Ready for 2022?

2020 and 2021 were unusual years, to say the least. COVID-19 turned the world upside down and the effects of what was essentially a global shutdown were felt everywhere – especially in the supply chain. For the team at Lytica, this is just the latest event to cause extreme electronic component market volatility, and for

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Trends Plugin – New Product Launch

Leveraging Supplier & Manufacturer Relationships with Performance Trends We’re extremely excited to announce the launch of the Trends plugin for our SupplyLens Pro™ platform. This new plugin enhances the market intelligence platform with historical pricing data and analysis to enable qualified customers to better assess their supplier relationships. Lytica’s SupplyLens™ Pro platform is the world’s largest

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Electronic Component Market Price Competitiveness & How Lytica Calculates It

At Lytica, we pride ourselves on having the world’s only database of real-world prices paid by real customers for millions of electronic components. This gives us unprecedented insight into the market as a whole, and allows us to analyze each customer’s standing in the marketplace. “What is Market Price Competitiveness?” “Does volume matter in electronic

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C-Suite Executives Should Be Asking These 3 Questions

Sourcing and procurement play an important role in companies of all sizes, and can have a significant impact (positive or negative) on a company’s competitiveness and its success. Any C-Suite executive responsible for sourcing and procurement should be able to answer these three key strategic questions: These seemingly simply questions -with often complex answers –

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SaaS for component pricing: Q&A with Lytica chairman Ken Bradley

How much should one pay for a chip or a component? Lytica, a Canadian supply-chain pricing analytics company, has the answer. Founded by former Nortel chief procurement officer Ken Bradley, who, like many others in the IT industry, was once bemused by component pricing, Lytica is transforming itself into a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, helping OEM

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