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 geopolitics, tariffs, AI infrastructure, defense demand, electrification, industrial automation, and supply chain resilience.
The webinar is tomorrow at 11 AM ET. Register now to join ARC Advisory Group’s discussion, The Hidden Cost of Component Sourcing — and How AI Is Fixing It, featuring Jim Frazer in conversation with Lytica CEO Martin Sendyk.
This is a practical conversation for procurement, supply chain, engineering, operations, and executive leaders who are trying to understand how component sourcing is changing.
Manufacturers need to control cost, protect supply, support product launches, and manage risk in a market where visibility is often limited. Overpayment can remain hidden. Component risk can appear too late. Engineering and procurement decisions can become locked in before teams have enough market intelligence to make the best sourcing choices.
Tomorrow’s webinar will examine why traditional approaches to component sourcing are under pressure and how manufacturers can use better intelligence to identify hidden cost, improve benchmarking, and manage sourcing risk more effectively.
Attendees will learn:
- Why electronic component pricing remains difficult to benchmark
- How hidden overpayment can persist inside normal procurement activity
- Why supplier quotes, list prices, and internal history are not enough
- How real transactional data can improve pricing visibility
- Why geopolitics, AI demand, tariffs, electrification, and defense demand are changing the sourcing risk equation
- How AI and sourcing intelligence can help procurement teams make better cost and risk decisions
The issue is no longer only whether a company can secure supply.
The issue is whether it can secure the right components, at the right price, with the right risk profile, early enough to influence the business outcome.
For many manufacturers, that requires a more transparent, data-driven, and intelligence-led sourcing model.
Register now for the ARC Advisory Group webinar with Jim Frazer and Lytica CEO Martin Sendyk before the session begins tomorrow at 11 AM ET.
The Hidden Cost of Component Sourcing — and How AI Is Fixing It
Date: June 23, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM ET
Location: Online
Speakers: Jim Frazer, Vice President, ARC Advisory Group, and Martin Sendyk, CEO, Lytica
If your organization manages a significant electronic component spend, this webinar will help you understand how AI and transactional market data can expose hidden sourcing costs and turn procurement into a more proactive system of intelligence.
Register now to reserve your spot.
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