Re: Maxim parts and lead times.

From: Jim Granville (no.spam_at_designtools.co.nz)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:18:41 +1200

Jim Stewart wrote:
> nospam wrote:
>
>> Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>>> At the bottom of all this, it's quite simple: keeping stock of
>>> anything costs money. Unless somebody (i.e.: you, ultimately) pays
>>> for it, it won't be done, and there will be lead times. TANSTAAFL.
>>
>> Keeping stock was what distributors used to do and was paid for by their
>> mark up. Now they mostly decided to mark up prices without holding an
>> stock and have removed most of their reason for existing.
>
>
> Precisly. I saw this coming a couple of years ago when
> I started hearing "we can't break a package of nnnn" from
> distributers. Now that TI will sell me a reel of 200 parts
> instead of 2500 and sample my parts overnight, I have
> less and less need for a distributer. I have a feeling
> that it won't be long before the other manufacturers pick
> up the same business model....

  The small reel idea is a very good one, I think started by
Natsemi/Fairchild ?. Any vendor offering this, moves up the
preferred supplier list.
  When parts came in tubes, and had long design lifetimes,
the disti model was working well.
  Now, the moves to larger MOQs and shorter design lifetimes
have made it harder - and so there is less 'reservoir stock'
at distis, and more 'we order when you order'.
  I believe all this means this upturn will move to long
leadtimes/allocation quite quickly, because another factor
in mfg/disti stock decisions, is lead-free. That further
narrows the supply pipeline/line item.
-jg

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