With the evolution of Lytica’s products from our legacy tools to the establishment of SupplyLensTM Pro, we continue to see similar technology questions from new and existing customers. In this blog, we’re sharing three common FAQs the Customer Success department sees. How does volume affect Lytica’s Target Pricing methodology? Bradley’s Law is fundamental to the […]
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A company should expect to pay for a specific electronic device – a price commensurate with their Competitiveness within that particular commodity.  This Competitiveness is the measure of how the supply chain sees that company.    Ken Bradley, Founder & CTO Lytica Inc. When Ken Bradley founded Lytica in 2005 as a consultancy practice, his primary
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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 still an important indicator of growth, prosperity and rise in living standards for a country.
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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? (PARTÂ 1) will continue to exist for the distribution businesses. Re-cap of the prerequisites: They keep inventory to provide materials to buyers faster than manufacturers do. It is costly
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In October, I attended the i2030 National Manufacturing Summit in Ottawa Canada, co-hosted by industry groups the CME (Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters) and the CMC (Canadian Manufacturing Coalition). The agenda was geared towards manufacturers and, considering our customers worldwide are comprised of OEM, EMS providers and ODMs, it was certainly topical and relevant to Lytica. Many
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Lytica Inc. tracks current prices paid – not distributor website prices – on about one million electronic components and uses this information to assess our clients’ spending competitiveness and estimate appropriate pricing for their worst price components. In many cases, we assist customers in implementing better pricing in their supply chain. From this vantage point
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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 chain. I started with my left hand holding the top of a slinky and my
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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 design (TED) lecture that I heard via Boxee by an incredible 19-year-old woman named Eva
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The results are in from the EBN poll on the Price-Supplier Equation. Fifty-five percent of respondents believe that the premium paid for being single sourced is greater than 10 percent, and more than half of these believe it is greater than 15 percent. This is a significant hike on cost and an unnecessary supply chain
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Knowledge chains enable supply chain performance. They bring together the information and context that let you make decisions and take actions. Gaps in a supply chain are noticed and fixed immediately, but holes in a knowledge chain often go undetected. This is because supply chain gaps are usually catastrophic, but knowledge gaps are performance-limiting. How
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