Manufacturers lose billions of dollars every year by overpaying for electronic components. The problem is not simply poor negotiation. It is a structural issue: limited price transparency, fragmented supplier data, rising geopolitical risk, and accelerating demand across electronics-intensive industries. In this webinar playback, Jim Frazer, Vice President at ARC Advisory Group, sits down with Martin […]

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Custom market research can help supply chain technology providers answer strategic questions that generic market commentary cannot resolve.

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For the better part of three decades, supply chain strategy has been built around one central objective: optimization. Reduce inventory. Lower transportation costs. Consolidate suppliers. Shorten lead times. Improve asset utilization. Those strategies worked exceptionally well in an era where globalization was expanding, transportation networks were relatively stable, and disruption was treated as an occasional […]

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Supply chain technology markets are crowded, complex, and changing quickly. Providers need more than visibility. They need credibility, market education, and executive engagement.

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The global supply chain landscape is currently defined by rapid transformation and persistent volatility. This week’s developments underscore a shift toward greater operational resilience and adaptation, ranging from the immediate impact of the CBP’s suspension of the de minimis exemption to the mounting pressure of early peak season rate spikes. As shippers navigate these headwinds, we are […]

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For many transportation organizations, sustainability reporting has historically been a retrospective exercise. Freight moved through the network, emissions were calculated after the fact, and the results were used for corporate reporting, customer disclosure, or ESG documentation. That model is changing. Transportation emissions are beginning to move from the reporting layer into the decision layer. As […]

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For years, the transportation management system market has been framed as a software market. A shipper buys a TMS to plan, execute, settle, and analyze freight. The software manages routing guides, tenders loads, tracks shipments, calculates freight costs, audits invoices, and produces reports. That model still exists. But it no longer fully describes the market. […]

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The routing guide has long been one of the central control mechanisms in transportation management. It reflects negotiated rates, preferred carriers, service expectations, contractual commitments, and years of transportation experience. For many shippers, it is the operating logic behind freight execution. But that logic is increasingly being tested. As AI-enabled transportation management systems evolve, tendering […]

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Real-time transportation visibility has been one of the defining logistics technology categories of the last decade. It solved a problem that shippers, carriers, brokers, and customers all understood: Where is my freight, when will it arrive, and what should I do if it will be late? That problem was real. The market was real. And […]

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Electronic component sourcing is becoming one of the most important cost and risk challenges facing manufacturers. Pricing remains opaque. Supplier quotes do not always reflect true market pricing. Internal purchase history may show what a company paid, but not whether that price was competitive. At the same time, chips and components are increasingly tied to […]

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This week in logistics, the industry faces a pivotal shift as Transportation Management Systems evolve into ‘decision intelligence’ hubs, moving beyond basic routing to become the core operating brain of the supply chain. Meanwhile, operational complexity reaches new heights with the massive logistical undertaking of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, even as trade tensions show […]

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Octave Live OnTour Austin takes place at a consequential point in the evolution of the industrial software market. Asset-intensive organizations are under sustained pressure to improve capital project execution, asset reliability, operational resilience, safety, quality, cybersecurity, and workforce productivity. At the same time, they are being asked to make better use of data and apply […]

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Electronic component sourcing is no longer just a cost problem. It is now tied to geopolitics, tariffs, AI infrastructure, defense demand, electrification, industrial automation, product availability, and supply chain resilience. That makes the sourcing decision more strategic and more difficult at the same time. The old sourcing equation was relatively straightforward: find the right part, […]

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Octave Live OnTour Austin provides a useful opportunity to assess how Octave intends to position its industrial software portfolio in a market increasingly focused on lifecycle intelligence, operational context, and AI-enabled decision support. Octave, the software spin-off from Hexagon AB, brings together software assets across engineering, construction, geospatial intelligence, asset operations, quality, public safety, physical […]

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Procurement teams have always needed benchmarks. The problem is that many benchmarks used in electronic component sourcing are too weak for today’s market. Supplier quotes are useful, but they are not neutral market signals. List prices are available, but they often do not reflect what buyers actually pay. Internal purchase history is important, but it […]

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For a long time, the transportation management system was understood in fairly practical terms. It was the system that helped a shipper tender loads, select carriers, build routes, manage rates, track shipments, and audit freight bills. In other words, it was the operational system of record for transportation execution. That view is no longer sufficient. […]

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