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As the electronic component market remains unstable and supply chain disruptions are becoming more commonplace, OEMs have quickly discovered the value of a proven obsolescence management strategy. As a result, several BOM monitoring systems have entered the marketplace, each with its own characteristics and limitations. To show how Partstat BOM Monitoring separates itself from any…
Obsolescence, in some form, impacts each and every industry that manufactures a product to meet the demands of a consumer base. But just as no two products have exactly the same design or function, no two products experience obsolescence in quite the same way. One of the most important factors in understanding how obsolescence will…
McDonald’s is back in the news this week as a $300 million buyer. While that could certainly buy a lot of Big Macs, the fast food staple is putting that capital to much better use with the purchase of Tel Aviv-based startup Dynamic Yield. This represents the largest single acquisition McDonald’s has made since Boston…
In a traditional supply chain, OEMs take a decidedly reactionary approach toward component obsolescence. Detailed procedures such as a last time buy solution may be in place to help their supply chains pivot to avoid disruption, but even the most sophisticated strategy designed to mitigate the effects of obsolescence does little to get to the…
In 2016, Broadcom announced their intentions to acquire NXP Semiconductors for a whopping $44 billion. At the time, it was the largest single acquisition the electronic components industry had ever seen – and although the merger was cancelled in July of 2018, for a time it provided an appropriate capstone for what has very much…
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…