The Hidden Cost of Component Sourcing — and How AI Is Fixing It

Manufacturers lose billions every year overpaying for electronic components in a market with no price transparency, increasing geopolitical risk, and accelerating demand. In this session, Jim Frazer, Vice President at ARC Advisory Group, sits down with Lytica CEO Martin Sendyk to explore why the traditional approach to direct-materials sourcing is broken, what real transactional data reveals about how much companies are leaving on the table, and how agentic AI is transforming sourcing from a reactive cost exercise into a proactive system of intelligence.

Whether you’re managing a $50M or $5B+ component spend, this conversation will change how you think about procurement as Lytica takes the function away from manual benchmarking and opaque pricing, to a proprietary data platform now embedded with agentic AI that acts as a full Sourcing Operating System. Discover how leading OEMs and EMS companies are using Lytica to eliminate overpayment, manage supply risk proactively, and accelerate time to market.