The Key to Staying Competitive in the Current Market

By Logan Wamsley

Nothing is worth compromising business continuity, right? After all, consistently acquiring and distributing the right quantity of components to the right manufacturing facilities is the aim of every supply chain manager, and a goal that is virtually impossible to accomplish without adapting to numerous and inevitable supply chain disruptions. The current component market, for example,…

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…

The Key to Surviving Component Shortages: Long-Term Storage

By Logan Wamsley

Anyone paying attention to the state of the electronic component marketplace knows that 2018 has seen the most significant industry-wide shortage in over a decade. Lead times for once-commoditized components and semiconductors are, in some cases, stretching well over a year, throwing many a supply chain into a state of perpetual uncertainty. Many analysts are…

Partstat BOM Monitoring Solution: Your First 14 Days

By Logan Wamsley

Nearly every Partstat user who enrolls in our BOM Monitoring Solution already realizes they are getting the world’s premier service for obsolescence management — and the only one capable of predicting the growing issue of component allocation. What few realize, however, is that Partstat customers do not have to wait a few weeks or months…

Partstat BOM Monitoring Solution: Your First 14 Days

By Logan Wamsley

Nearly every Partstat customer who enrolls in our BOM Monitoring Solution already realizes they are getting the world’s premier service for obsolescence management — and the only one capable of predicting the growing issue of component allocation. What few realize, however, is that Partstat customers do not have to wait a few weeks or months…