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The widening lifecycle mismatch between OEM products and the critical electronic inventory used to create them has had a profound effect on the modern supply chain. Where once OEMs could source the parts required over time under the assumption they would be available for a reasonable amount of time, now even components that were once…
The longer the OEM projects the lifecycle of their product to last, the more last time buy inventory needs to be purchased – and because long-term inventory needs can rarely be forecasted perfectly, OEMs prefer to have too much inventory than not enough. Every component, semiconductor, and necessary computer product, even the ones that may…
Steve Jobs once said, “Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” Obviously, Jobs was not discussing the merits of Partstat, but he might as well have. Partstat not only stands on…
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…
Since its launch, we here at Partstat have worked diligently to highlight the many benefits our Last Time Solution can have for an OEM and the other companies that make up their supply chain. But while we can reference these benefits in many different ways (case studies, videos, hypothetical scenarios, etc.), without a baseline to…
A lot of the solutions we offer at Partstat revolve around building a better mousetrap. We created the best BOM Monitoring Solution on the market, we found a way to warehouse and fulfill critical electronic inventory better and more cost-effectively than most OEMs consider possible, and we have even discovered how to leverage our Big…