Supply Chain Learnings 2021
With a tumultuous 2021 coming to a close, what are you doing to ensure you’re ready for 2022? Take a look at a few Supply Chain Learnings from 2021 and how to best prepare for the year ahead, whatever the…
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Aspirin & Vitamins
Reactive & Proactive Approaches to a Stronger Supply Chain Lytica is the world’s only provider of electronic component spend analytics and risk intelligence using real customer data. The SupplyLens™ Pro platform was built with one primary goal: arm our customers…
Ready for 2022?
2020 and 2021 were unusual years, to say the least. COVID-19 turned the world upside down and the effects of what was essentially a global shutdown were felt everywhere – especially in the supply chain. For the team at Lytica,…
Trends Plugin – New Product Launch
Leveraging Supplier & Manufacturer Relationships with Performance Trends We’re extremely excited to announce the launch of the Trends plugin for our SupplyLens Pro™ platform. This new plugin enhances the market intelligence platform with historical pricing data and analysis to enable qualified…
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…
Covid-19 & Risk
It seems like it never ends. MLCC and other component shortages from automotive market expansion in 2018, tariffs driving sourcing changes in 2019 and now, in 2020, Coronavirus taking us into completely uncharted waters. Despite some interesting environmental new (for…
Towards “20/20 vision” in 2020
It’s hard to believe, but already the third decade of this century is around the corner. This certitude had me reflecting this week as I commuted to the optometrist. Most adults have an annual ritual of going to an optometrist…
Shortage Mitigation Revisited
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 22 I have been thinking about shortages again and how one might improve their supply situation in these difficult times. In July, I posted a blog to scmroundtable.com titled “Shortages: Three Extreme…
Ken, your engine is revving a lot of RPMs!
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 20 This blog’s title is an email quote from a customer trying the extreme shortages mitigation approaches outlined in my last blog. He was surprised by the number of alternatives we tabled…
Shortages: Three Extreme Mitigation Approaches
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 19 The introduction of semi-autonomous vehicle demand coupled with the already growing smart phone requirements for passive components – particularly MLCC capacitors – has created significant shortage problems for EMS and OEM…