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Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) & the Power of Spend Benchmarking

When it comes to supply chains, there are many moving parts – both literally and figuratively. Having a solid understanding of the supply chain process and all related costs ensures that you stay in control. Understanding pricing, specifically for EMS companies, offers a competitive advantage for the manufacturer and the client. Electronic manufacturing services (EMS) […]

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Lytica’s Ken Bradley Joins Manufacturing Supply Chain CEOs Podcast, Giving Insight to Procurement on a Global Scale

Lytica’s own Chief Technology Officer, Ken Bradley, recently took some time to chat with Martin Harshberger on the Manufacturing Supply Chain CEOs podcast. They discussed everything from industry challenges to best practices on procurement and approaching negotiations to where he sees the future of supply chain resiliency. As the former Chief Procurement Officer at Nortel

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SupplyLens Pro API – A New Approach to Looking at Supplier Price with 24/7 Access and Connectivity

There is significant value behind giving our customers a heightened sense of confidence and market knowledge before going into negotiations. That’s why we developed SupplyLens™ Pro API, letting us connect with customers’ systems to transfer information faster, more securely, and more accurately. Too many companies are operating on multiple systems siloed from one another. This adds

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The Acceleration of Data: Requiring Companies to Speed up, Work Faster, and Prepare for the Future (Part 3)

In a previous post, we discussed how technology’s rate of adoption is getting increasingly shorter, and faster. For those companies remaining stagnant in legacy systems, the hustle needed to catch up to those businesses that have adopted innovative solutions more quickly becomes insurmountable. It also reveals several operational pain points. Focusing on business adoption enables

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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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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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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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