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“There is little about the “Great Component Shortage of 2018” that hasn’t already been thoroughly analyzed. Unprecedented demand for smaller and more efficient passive electronics, especially in the automotive and IoT industries, has driven lead times for once commoditized components to the breaking point. What hasn’t been discussed, however, is the equal pushback OEMs are…
After an extensive planning and construction process, Partstat is officially declaring its custom storage vault completed and ready for business. As the latest addition to Partstat’s last time buy and storage offerings, this structure initially conceived by Partstat CEO Dennis Menefee as the answer to an inherent market need for guaranteed business continuity throughout even…
Historically, it has been easy to look at the implementation of a last time buy as a mark of professional failure. While common practice and necessary to avoid a redesign or costly product discontinuation, the very act of admitting a last time buy is the optimal path forward represented an inability to properly forecast critical…
Outside of our storage and fulfillment capabilities that save OEMs an average of 42 percent in annual inventory carrying costs, the feature that customers most commonly respond to regarding the Partstat Last Time Buy Solution is our ability to preserve up to ten years of OEM working capital. Without the added burden of an upfront…
For the vast majority of families, the joy of having a newborn is quickly supplanted by anxiety about the future — with the most financially taxing task ahead being funding their undergraduate studies. With tuition rates set to skyrocket yet again in the coming years, parents have to establish a long-term strategy to fulfill that…
When it comes to last time buys, it doesn’t take long to realize that they are everyone’s problem. And when the time comes when such a transaction becomes necessary to ensure a product’s life cycle can be completed, it can often prove complicated to determine whose problem it is to solve. Every EMS provider/OEM partnership…