Partstat’s Rapid RFQ System: Explained

By Logan Wamsley

Every supplier, following a thorough vetting process, is able to upload their inventory to the world’s largest free electronic component search engine and marketplace. While this in itself is a benefit, the act of uploading inventory comes with a variety of additional benefits that remain in place long after they first become a Partstat uploader.…

Medical Devices Are Getting Personal, and It’s Changing the Healthcare Industry

By Logan Wamsley

Today, the majority of the conversation regarding the exponential growth of the electronic component market centers around the automotive and IoT markets. Electronic cars, smartphones, and any consumer electronic device that connects to the Internet and collects data requires quality components and semiconductors. No market analyst can be taken seriously without mentioning these industries, and…

Pros and Cons of APIs, and What Makes Partstat API Different

By Logan Wamsley

In the last decade, the evolution of ecommerce as it relates to electronic components sourcing has been nothing short of incredible. Despite the highly advanced nature of the inventory OEMs buy, store, and use to assemble their products, the actual process of procuring them through inquiries, quoting, and games of back-and-forth phone tag has largely…

The Double Ordering Problem, and How OEMs Can Avoid It

By Logan Wamsley

The electronic components market today is in an odd place. Despite historic levels of growth and revenue on both the OEM and OCM side, it’s hard to have a conversation with either without hearing the word “fear.” Fear is manifesting itself in many forms: fear of OCMs not able to ramp up production to meet…

Electronics OEMs and the Burden of Market Growth

By Logan Wamsley

The electronic component market and the industries it supports have a symbiotic relationship; the growth and innovations on display from one side intrinsically affect the growth of the other, and vice versa, just as the downturn of one negatively impacts the other. When the electronic components market struggled to source raw materials at the turn…