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Navigating the Electronics Components Market: Supplier Strategies and Buyer Challenges

Navigating the Electronics Components Market: Supplier Strategies and Buyer Challenges

Navigating the Electronics Components Market: Supplier Strategies and Buyer Challenges In the intricate dance of supply and demand within the electronics components market, both suppliers and buyers find themselves struggling to navigate through fluctuating landscapes. In 2023, the market narrative consisted of the looming threat of higher interest rates. For suppliers, the challenge can lie […]

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The Rate of Acceleration and Its Effect on the Supply Chain’s Future (Part 2)

It’s not news that COVID-19 flipped the supply chain ecosystem on its head, revealing cracks in an industry ripe for disruption. The gap it caused between supply and demand made it hard to get an holistic overview of the market, as quality, supplier search, and price fluctuations were in disarray. Not to mention, the ‘acceleration

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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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Risk and Uncertainty

 Is risk a synonym for uncertainty? The thesaurus in Microsoft Word suggests that it is and a Google search confirms it however, when thinking about managing supply chains, there are a different set of actions for risk than those taken to address uncertainty.  The primary supply chain actions to reduce risk involve alternate sourcing, inventory

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Predicting Supplier Failure

The problem of identifying suppliers with a high risk of failure is becoming more serious as talks of interest rate hikes and free trade agreement dissolution become more common. While this blog considers suppliers in an electronics supply chain, the risks and mitigations described apply more broadly. Most companies have strategies and indicators for dealing

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Catastrophic Risk Prevention

Analyze financial health to prevent catastrophic risk in your supply chain With increasing occurrences of disturbing events, such as companies going bankrupt, how to predict and prevent the catastrophic risk becomes one of the most important considerations of executives and managers. Such events could adversely impact production and order fulfillment, resulting in financial loss as

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Supply Chain Accounting 101

Most supply chain professionals would benefit from some training in accounting. I am surprised by the number of times I encounter people holding positions of responsibility who just don’t understand the numbers well enough. I must admit that accountants don’t make it particularly easy. Take cashflow calculations as an example. There are two ways of

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