BOM Monitoring: A Secure Future for Military and Defense Supply Chains

By Logan Wamsley

Ever since the mid-90s when the U.S. decided to enter into the open market to source its technology and critical inventory, military and defense supply chains have seen two conflicting narratives play out simultaneously. One, the transition to a multi-tiered supply chain system has accelerated the expansion of military and defense tech at a rate…

Staying Ahead of Risk with BOM Monitoring

By Logan Wamsley

The goal of any OEM or EMS provider is to identify and mitigate any risk associated with the design and production of their products. While this may be simple to say, what form such risks take can be broad and at times unpredictable; geopolitical uncertainty, unexpected component obsolescence, raw material shortages, and unforeseen externalities, such…

COVID-19 Is Making Supply Chain Collaboration More Important than Ever

By Logan Wamsley

Collaboration and communication between parties has always been the essence of a sound supply chain, but COVID-19 disruption has made it a necessity. This is true between suppliers and manufacturers, but also between independent solutions providers and their customers, which are increasingly becoming staples of the successful supply chain. According to an article in Supply…

COVID-19 Is Making BOM Monitoring a Must

By Logan Wamsley

Ever since its inception, Partstat BOM Monitoring has been the industry’s only source for accurate obsolescence and allocation monitoring and prediction. What was once a luxury that took a team of analysts and billions of unstructured — and costly — data points to manage is all handled automatically for each BOM Monitoring customer after uploading…

The Problem with Internal BOM Monitoring

By Logan Wamsley

A common attitude taken by many manufacturers is one of absolute control. This is understandable for many aspects of the manufacturing process; after all, third-party inefficiencies are one of the most common causes of supply chain disruption, such as when raw material shipments are lost or delayed, or when a contract manufacturer fails to meet…

Supplier Lead Time Trends – February 2020

By Logan Wamsley

One of the key features Partstat offers Part Search users and BOM Monitoring customers is access to its Big Data — more specifically, 50 billion data points of Big Data. This data is comprised of over 56 million rows of inventory on 26 million unique parts compiled from thousands of authorized suppliers and component manufacturers.…