Category Product Cost

Creating a resilient electronic component supply chain in the face of a recession

Electronic Component supply chains serve as product highways creating a clear path from concept to delivery. A great supply chain is frictionless, fast, and efficient. Many factors contribute to the quality of a supply chain, some of which are beyond…

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Navigating Toward a World-Class Supply Chain During a Looming Recession

2020 and 2021 were years like no other. First, the global shutdown flipped the supply chain world on its head, exposing inefficiencies with lasting repercussions. Businesses were left with billions of dollars in unsold goods, causing inventory-to-sales ratios to surge…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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GDP and the Manufacturing Sector

Manufacturing Sector- The Growth Engine of the Economy

GDP dynamics – An important factor for developing supply chain strategies Manufacturing sector has been the growth engine of the global economy for the better part of the last two centuries. The transition from an agrarian to manufacturing economy is…

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Value-added services

Will Electronic Distributors Disappear? (Part2)

Is the current distribution model sustainable in the future? To answer this question, let us re-examine whether the three prerequisites mentioned in WILL ELECTRONIC COMPONENT DISTRIBUTORS DISAPPEAR? (PART 1) will continue to exist for the distribution businesses. Re-cap of the prerequisites:…

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