Building Supply Chain Resilience: Transforming BOM Management for Modern Electronics

Fabian Winkler

| Created: May 12, 2025

Building Supply Chain Resilience Transforming BOM Management for Modern Electronics

The whitepaper explores why leading electronics companies are moving beyond spreadsheets to implement dedicated BOM management solutions that strengthen supply chain resilience, reduce costs, and accelerate time-to-market.

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What's Inside This Whitepaper?

Readiness checklist: When is it time to move away from spreadsheets?
(hint: if you've had a costly redesign due to component availability, it's time)
Best practices for effective BOM management for electronics teams
Key use cases of a BOM management system
Overview of Altium 365 BOM Portal
ROI calculation examples with real-world savings

Key Benefits of Altium 365 BOM Portal

Faster BOM completion with enriched supply chain data
Data-driven BOM analysis for supply chain risk mitigation
Comprehensive part library with full traceability
Streamlined collaboration between engineering and procurement

Why Engineers Trust BOM Portal

Nowadays, there are so many supply chain disruptions, maybe the PCB boards take weeks to come back. When you have an error there, the real cost is burning those 6-8 weeks. Because you're using Altium 365 tools, you're looking at maybe an 80% reduction in time to market.

— Brandon Gilles, Founder/CEO, Luxonis

When we start the design we can already make the decision about if the part is good for the designs. With Octopart and now with the new procurement module in Altium 365, we have all the information we need; we don't have to look it up—it's all there.

— Vinzenz Wöhrl, Teamlead Electronics, Quantum Systems

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About Author

About Author

Fabian Winkler is a versatile Product Marketing Manager with a rare combination of deep technical expertise and market-driven strategy. At Altium, he drives new product launches for Altium 365, developing compelling educational content and engaging hundreds of participants through technical webinars that bridge theory with practical application. His background as an Applications Engineer at Allegro MicroSystems and Electronics Developer at Heidelberg Instruments provides him with comprehensive knowledge of sensor technology and electronic systems development—expertise he leverages to articulate the benefits of Altium’s tools to diverse audiences. Fabian excels at translating technical capabilities into customer-centric value propositions, exemplified by his leadership of the influential Forrester Total Economic Impact study.

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