Welcome to IHS PCNalert

Component management encompasses the range of changes that affect components such as technical or performance improvements, parametric, physical modifications, or chemical composition modifications as well as changes in supply and availability terms. These changes often have a direct impact on your product metrics such as time to market, inventory turns, excess and obsolete inventory and direct material costs, to name a few.

Effective component management is a discipline that synthesizes relevant information, software applications and practices to provide an overall approach for improving product development and business performance.

Component management impacts Design, Procurement, Production, Quality and Service/Repair. The multidimensional relationships between component manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers and electronic manufacturing services (outsourced manufacturing) require a single point of truth for effective component management.

Component events impact Supply Chains, Product Lifecycle Management Systems, CAD Systems, Customer Relationship Management Systems and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. Data integration is a critical element of efficient component management. With PCNalert, users can rely on comprehensive information that is updated and delivered daily to stay ahead of the component and supplier events that can affect their product development process.