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Electronic Component Market Price Competitiveness & How Lytica Calculates It

At Lytica, we pride ourselves on having the world’s only database of real-world prices paid by real customers for millions of electronic components. This gives us unprecedented insight into the market as a whole, and allows us to analyze each customer’s standing in the marketplace. “What is Market Price Competitiveness?” “Does volume matter in electronic […]

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C-Suite Executives Should Be Asking These 3 Questions

Sourcing and procurement play an important role in companies of all sizes, and can have a significant impact (positive or negative) on a company’s competitiveness and its success. Any C-Suite executive responsible for sourcing and procurement should be able to answer these three key strategic questions: These seemingly simply questions -with often complex answers –

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SaaS for component pricing: Q&A with Lytica chairman Ken Bradley

How much should one pay for a chip or a component? Lytica, a Canadian supply-chain pricing analytics company, has the answer. Founded by former Nortel chief procurement officer Ken Bradley, who, like many others in the IT industry, was once bemused by component pricing, Lytica is transforming itself into a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, helping OEM

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SupplyLens™ Pro & 2021

2020 brought Lytica a lot of change in our offerings as we transitioned our legacy products into our new SupplyLens™ Pro SaaS platform. The SupplyLens™ Pro platform delivers 24/7 access to our unique electronic component market intelligence through our first two plug-ins; Spend Benchmarking and Price Estimator. SupplyLens™ Pro draws on the world’s largest and

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SupplyLens™ Pro – 3 FAQs

With the evolution of Lytica’s products from our legacy tools to the establishment of SupplyLensTM Pro, we continue to see similar technology questions from new and existing customers. In this blog, we’re sharing three common FAQs the Customer Success department sees. How does volume affect Lytica’s Target Pricing methodology? Bradley’s Law is fundamental to the

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Covid-19 & Risk

It seems like it never ends. MLCC and other component shortages from automotive market expansion in 2018, tariffs driving sourcing changes in 2019 and now, in 2020, Coronavirus taking us into completely uncharted waters. Despite some interesting environmental new (for some interesting NO2 pollution photos from the crisis, see https://www.visualcapitalist.com/coronavirus-lockdowns-emissions/), it’s not good at best

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Towards “20/20 vision” in 2020

It’s hard to believe, but already the third decade of this century is around the corner. This certitude had me reflecting this week as I commuted to the optometrist. Most adults have an annual ritual of going to an optometrist for an eye exam. They emerge with a prescription for new lenses or, in some

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New Standard Lytica Commodity Names

This week Lytica began using new Lytica commodity names in our online Component Cost Estimator (CCE) product. In CCE, we will be displaying what we refer to as the Major Commodity name; the underlying construct consists of finer levels of granularity ranging from Super, Major, Sub and so on in order to classify the components.

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Shortage Mitigation Revisited

How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 22 I have been thinking about shortages again and how one might improve their supply situation in these difficult times. In July, I posted a blog to scmroundtable.com titled “Shortages: Three Extreme Mitigation Approaches” where I suggested things that are somewhat “outside-the-box” for normal sourcing but not

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Ken, your engine is revving a lot of RPMs!

How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 20 This blog’s title is an email quote from a customer trying the extreme shortages mitigation approaches outlined in my last blog. He was surprised by the number of alternatives we tabled for him. This individual is one of the best supply chain professionals I know. He

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