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Type “obsolescence management strategy” into Google, and you’ll find hundreds of tips and tricks from experienced analysts and experts on how to best handle end-of-life components. Most of these tips, ranging from simple supply chain adjustments to intricate analytical insight, do have inherent value on their own, but attempting to educate consumers in such a…
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…
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 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…
OEMs across the globe in nearly every imaginable industry, in some capacity, feel the impact of obsolescence on their supply chain. The reasons for the discontinuation of critical electronic components are varied, but regardless of the many forms obsolescence takes, there remains one true constant: It is an issue that no amount of oversight or…
With our Big Data warehouse Partstat at our disposal — consisting of over 9 billion rows of current and historical data on over 20 million electronic components, semiconductors, and peripheral products — Partstat is uniquely positioned to offer OEM customers a BOM Monitoring Solution that can monitor for component obsolescence and predict allocation in a…