Communication gaps
The primary challenges electronics engineers face involve broader sourcing and procurement problems, and ultimately, gaps in communication.
These issues create a blurry procurement ecosystem picture, and obstruct access to sourcing data, resulting in less than ideal product designs and a lack of preparation for supply chain disruptions.
Through a "Design for Supply" approach, clear and consistent collaboration on the procurement ecosystem is improved, and engineers can design components and products around availability and plan for disruptions.
Lack of visibility
An unfortunate standard is that data surrounding sourcing is disparate, siloed, and sitting on laptops in Excel files. This makes it needlessly difficult for engineers to understand what inventory is available across all suppliers and across the entire company.
Holistic sourcing platforms that enrich data and make it easy to access, like Part Analytics, optimize an organization's process to allow for streamlined part identification and purchasing by bringing all of the part and component information into a unified format, available anywhere and anytime its needed.
