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Design for Supply

Educational Guide

How to Pivot to Design for Supply

Inefficient processes, disjointed data, and global disruptions are forcing engineering departments to walk the proverbial "parts vs development tightrope." With the right data and the right plan, product engineers can enhance and speed up development, and business can make faster, smarter sourcing and supply management decisions, no matter the market conditions. 

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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.

Part Analytics is used by highly effective supply chain teams

A Little More About
Part Analytics

We’re here to make supply management for direct materials less painful for electronics suppliers & manufacturers.

We are paving the way toward a future with simple, effective, and straightforward collaboration between electronic equipment manufacturers and suppliers. In that pursuit, we’re creating a comprehensive & standardized source of information for supply management.

We draw on deep expertise in sourcing and product design to help electronics equipment and component manufacturers find available parts, manage costs, and limit overall risk to their supply chain with intuitive, easy-to-use software tools.

Automate direct materials sourcing, procurement & PLM processes with AI-powered software that will find available parts, monitor market changes, and provide product cost, risk, spend & supply insights for everyone on your team.