Crunching the OEM Cash Cycle During a Component Shortage

By Logan Wamsley

Regardless of the industry your company operates in or the products you bring to market, you are subservient to the cash conversion cycle (CCC). While explaining the factors that create this in detail is worthy of an article in itself, for the sake of simplicity I will define it as the amount of time it…

The Value of Lifecycle Confirmation in Your Obsolescence Management Strategy

By Logan Wamsley

With over 50 billion points of Big Data on over 25 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 real-time model updated every 15 minutes. And with our network of over 5,000 manufacturers…

Allocation: The Forgotten Supply Chain Disruptor

By Logan Wamsley

The goal of BOM monitoring services has always been to offer OEMs and EMS providers a way to seamlessly implement a proactive supply chain infrastructure that can accurately monitor obsolescence. However, especially in competitive markets where component demand far outweighs an OCM’s ability to meet supply orders, there is another variable that can be every…

Choosing the Right BOM Monitoring Tool for Obsolescence Management

By Logan Wamsley

Historically, BOM Monitoring services have been used to help original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, react to obsolescence in electronic components when it occurs. Upon confirmation of a critical component’s or semiconductor’s end of life, manufacturers would then either initiate a last time buy to secure sufficient inventory to support the entire lifecycle of their product,…

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 Benefits of Partstat’s Open-Source Big Data Platform

By Logan Wamsley

So much of what Partstat offers our users is rooted in our access to Big Data. As an acclaimed Big Data platform, we consist of, as of this writing, over 9 billion rows of current and historical data on 20 million parts sourced from over 3,000 unique manufacturers. In our BOM Monitoring Solution, Partstat provides…