The Quiet Death of Single-Source Supply Chains
Why Multi-Path Sourcing Is Becoming a Baseline Requirement For decades, the conventional wisdom in procurement was simple:Find a trusted supplier.
Why Multi-Path Sourcing Is Becoming a Baseline Requirement For decades, the conventional wisdom in procurement was simple:Find a trusted supplier.
As electronics become more complex and launch cycles compress, one constraint continues to create friction in manufacturing:data translation. Gerbers. ODB++.
Every year, APEX isn’t just a trade show for us.It’s a classroom. Manufacturing evolves fast — new materials, new inspection
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a 6–3 decision significantly impacting presidential tariff authority — and it has immediate consequences
Tariffs don’t usually break programs all at once.They leak margin quietly, distort sourcing decisions, and show up late—after designs are
In manufacturing, it’s tempting to believe that performance gains come from big, visible moves—new equipment, new software, or sweeping transformations.
For decades, OEMs were taught to treat lead time variability as a temporary problem. A disruption.A cycle.A spike that would
For years, the conversation around American manufacturing has focused on what we lost: factories offshore, supply chains stretched thin, and
For decades, electronics manufacturing followed a simple rule:optimize for cost. Lowest labor rate.Lowest unit price.Longest acceptable lead time. That model
As lead times continue to fluctuate and allocation risk remains a reality, we recognized that traditional distributor-only sourcing models were