The most trusted source of electronic component market intelligence
The most trusted source of electronic component market intelligence
If the supply chain psychiatrist were to run a word association test, the expected answer to associate with the word registered would be screwed! While this may sound harsh, many OEMs are unknowingly caught in a registration system that has…
This blog is for my readers in procurement with home blood pressure gauges. Warning: do not act on this blog if you have high blood pressure or have failed your anger management class! Select a day when your blood pressure…
Lytica Inc. offers our customers an M&A Synergy Savings report. For us, this is an interesting report because it allows us to observe in detail the purchasing effectiveness of two companies that have operated independently. For our customers on an…
Last month I made a presentation to the IEEE Consumer Electronics Group in San Jose, CA. I asked this group of engineers a very important question. It was important because of the implications that designer choices have on the supply…
In putting together the slides for a technical review, I realized that two thirds of the staff at Lytica have technical degrees; mostly electrical engineering but also computer science, mathematics and related fields. While not a total surprise, it is…
I am going to share how some customers are using Lytica tools to save money; big money. If you buy or sell electronic components, you need our tools. Anyone requesting or receiving quotes for components today needs Component Cost Estimator (CCE).…
Opportunity for cost reduction exists in all companies. Lytica’s analytic tools were conceived to focus on cost reduction for commercial component purchases but are also proving effective in reducing overhead activity associated with their cost reduction. Our customers are finding…
It stands to reason that, within a set of components, some would have better and others worse than a sweet-spot price. “Sweet-spot” here means an appropriate, fair-market price level for the purchaser. If you normalized the sweet-spot prices so that…
Having the world’s largest independent database of current electronic component pricing gives me a unique perspective on pricing. Having developed the prediction algorithms used inFreebenchmarking.com and Component Cost Estimator — applications that accurately predict what individual companies should be paying…
Maybe I’m fixated on cost and competitiveness, but over Christmas, two things happened that drove me to ponder these themes. The first is that I was given a Boxee Box as a gift; the second is a technology, entertainment, and…