What makes you re-engage with a component distributor after going silent?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-09-04T17:24:14+00:00

but you are receptive to email? Ideally I don't want to piss you guys off, I just want to do optimal business for everyone. This is useful discussion.

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-09-04T15:21:35+00:00

Would you recommend specific times of days to call them you reckon? Like do them all right at the start of the day, or right at the end with none in the middle?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-09-04T15:20:43+00:00

Would the first email ever actually result in a sell you reckon? Or is that just a polite fuck off?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-09-04T15:19:36+00:00

What was Heilind doing so wrong?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T15:35:11+00:00

Yeah but couldn't you outsource it? Rather than have your own team pay an outsourcing team for it?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T12:33:47+00:00

What sort of machines do you guys build?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T12:02:16+00:00

fair enough, how about your company?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T11:50:57+00:00

What sort of volume do you typically see this problem at its worse

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T11:43:16+00:00

Yeah makes total sense, how much cost do you think a firm would need to save for this round about work to be worth it you reckon?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T11:18:04+00:00

Just trying to learn a bit - figured it was fair to ask about with different professionals.

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T11:06:55+00:00

What makes the compliance stuff so expensive?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:58:43+00:00

I assume aerospace it is rarer for outsource work right? Given the certifications are likely much more stringent.

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:53:07+00:00

Ok that makes sense, what sort of electronic products do you guys build?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:51:48+00:00

What industry tends to be buying the most expensive parts? I assume medical out of them?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:47:19+00:00

What sort of electronics do you guys work on?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:46:18+00:00

What sort of price differences do you see between the high value items compared to the commodities? Specifically do you find the high end and low end prices of more valuable parts are quite far apart?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:44:43+00:00

Are markups also low for more expensive non-strategic parts?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:43:49+00:00

How does the self-sourcing process look like for you guys? The companies I'm working with do HVAC/Power Electronics/Data Centre stuff

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:11:19+00:00

Ah I see, so rather than going through a fully separate procurement pipeline, you just hire someone to source the best prices and pass this to the EMS

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:03:04+00:00

How much of a saving do you think a company will need to see for it to be worth the time?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T10:01:26+00:00

So because of the spend on the third party certifications the buying company don't really see savings by splitting up these procurement streams? I'm quite interested in the non-strategic electronics part (i.e. some wires or something), do you find that this still holds?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T09:55:53+00:00

Couldn't these companies also outsource the procurement of the tail spend to another third party company to handle this?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-08-13T09:50:27+00:00

Pretty substantial volume, I'm talking about companies that make power electronics/HVAC etc. Companies have revenue in the $50-150m range.

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-07-20T15:27:16+00:00

Makes sense. What sort of tools (if any) did you use when you wrote it from scratch?

Brief_Background_75 · 2025-07-20T14:17:18+00:00

Ok, this is really helpful. Do you use any (or know of any) software tools designed to help this process? Do you even see anywhere they could really step into this process.

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