Time tomarket
Purchasing tools cut sourcing time
Online purchasing tools can help buyers source critical components faster, which can improve time tomarket while increasing efficiency By ESNA staff
SiliconExpert's BOMmanager allows buyers to scrub andmanage BOMs in one central location
Web-based purchasing tools that help purchasers reduce the time it takes to source parts and/or provide bill ofmaterials (BOM) scrubbing services can help all OEMs speed their time tomarket.
Some of these tools and services are available through ecommercemarketplace or electronic component procurement service providers as well as some leading franchised distributors.
Here's a roundup of a fewsolutions fromPartMiner, SiliconExpert
and Verical that can help youmeet your time-to-market requirements. PartMinerWorldwide Centennial, Colo., recently unveiled
a new partnership program, called SupplyStream, that was created to help buyers source parts faster, while giving suppliers real-time access to request for quotes. The company already has established relationships with several partners in the U.S. and Europe.
PartMiner also noted that SupplyStreampartnerships are
limited to franchised electronic component distributors and manufacturers, which give customers the added security of knowing their parts are coming fromestablished, reputable sources, resulting in fewer concerns about counterfeit parts.
PartMiner also released a free basic view of the CAPS
technical component database to help buyers and engineers with their component searches. The basic service enables single part searching in the more than 160 million parts database.
CAPS data elements provided in the free service include full
part number,manufacturer name, detailed part description, pin count, part status/lifecycle risk, downloadable current data sheets and a link to request quotations (RFQ). Part searches also return a list of similar or alternate parts based on part number, said PartMiner.
38 |March 2011 The complete CAPS database and applications, including CAPS
Expert, CAPS Connect and CAPS Connect ES, are available by subscription fromPartMiner. The CAPS database is used to build, optimize, and analyze BOMs. It integrates with approved vendor lists and internal parts lists, providing a single corporate-wide data set for product lifecyclemanagement, said PartMiner.
SiliconExpert Technologies, Santa Clara, Calif., has added
inventory pricing and lead-time data to its suite of electronic componentmanagement tools, enabling engineers and buyers to makemore informed component selection decisions.
The component data information provider allows customers to
search through its database of 185million components for attributes such as cross references, lifecycle, obsolescence forecasts, environmental compliance, and inventory data. The company also offers BOMscrubbing and data integrationweb services.
With pricing information now integrated into SiliconExpert's
database of electronic components, subscribers have access to a comprehensive resource for distributor pricing information.
By uploading the part lists to SiliconExpert's tools, users can
instantly retrieve an average price across multiple distributors for thousands of parts. The new average pricing data points allow users to save time and reduce costs by proactively estimating procurement costs, said the company.
SiliconExpert also integrated average inventory lead times from
distributors into its componentmanagement suite. The new feature lets users evaluate component selection based on average lead times ofmultiple distributors froma single interface.
Verical Inc., which was acquired by Arrow Electronics last year,
is an ecommercemarketplace for electronic components, targeted atmeeting the end-of-life components and parts shortage needs of OEMcustomers.
Verical, San Francisco, Calif., recently added to its service
offerings DemandMatch, a bulk parts search tool thatmatches open requirementswith available supply automatically. The newtool
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