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Creating a resilient electronic component supply chain in the face of a recession

Electronic Component supply chains serve as product highways creating a clear path from concept to delivery. A great supply chain is frictionless, fast, and efficient. Many factors contribute to the quality of a supply chain, some of which are beyond our control. The past two years have been extremely difficult for supply chains. Even those […]

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Navigating Toward a World-Class Supply Chain During a Looming Recession

2020 and 2021 were years like no other. First, the global shutdown flipped the supply chain world on its head, exposing inefficiencies with lasting repercussions. Businesses were left with billions of dollars in unsold goods, causing inventory-to-sales ratios to surge for a short time before businesses liquidated these inventories. Then, as the economy recovered, businesses

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SupplyLens Pro API – A New Approach to Looking at Supplier Price with 24/7 Access and Connectivity

There is significant value behind giving our customers a heightened sense of confidence and market knowledge before going into negotiations. That’s why we developed SupplyLens™ Pro API, letting us connect with customers’ systems to transfer information faster, more securely, and more accurately. Too many companies are operating on multiple systems siloed from one another. This adds

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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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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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The Genesis of “Bradley’s Law”

A company should expect to pay for a specific electronic device – a price commensurate with their Competitiveness within that particular commodity.   This Competitiveness is the measure of how the supply chain sees that company.     Ken Bradley, Founder & CTO Lytica Inc. When Ken Bradley founded Lytica in 2005 as a consultancy practice, his primary

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