To Predict Component Allocation, There’s Only One Option

By Logan Wamsley

2018 has seen the chip market experiencing a period of nearly record demand, especially for chip capacitors, resistors, and memory such as NOR and NAND Flash. Although this surge was largely anticipated by many industry analysts, the sheer scale of it nevertheless has caught even some of the world’s leading chip manufacturers off guard. Even…

What Makes a Complete Obsolescence Management Strategy?

By Logan Wamsley

The term obsolescence management strategy, while simple in theory (how OEMs adapt their supply chain when faced with critical electronic components approaching end-of-life), has a nearly infinite number of variations in the supply chain marketplace. In one regard, this is understandable given how each industry — and each manufacturer within that industry — prioritizes different…

The Future of the Auto Industry Supply Chain Runs on Batteries

By Logan Wamsley

If one follows the money and the national conversation circulating around auto industry leaders such as Tesla, GM, Ford, Toyota, and potential game-changers such as Byton, the ever-evolving auto industry seems to universally agree on one thing: the future is electric. Although electric vehicles (EVs) only accounted for approximately 2 million of the vehicles on…