Clean and connected data
Clean and connected data
Always up-to-date part information
Always up-to-date part information
Increased supplier diversity
Increased supplier diversity
Instant cost indications
Instant cost indications
Instant PCB offers and design checks
Instant PCB offers and design checks
Boosted supply chain collaboration
Boosted supply chain collaboration
Learn about your case from our frequent use cases
Luminovo offers solutions for a variety of supply chain use cases. See below for a full list of our most frequent use cases.
Luminovo offers solutions for diverse scenarios of your daily work along the electronics supply chain.
See below for a list of our most frequent use cases.
Clean messy data spread across tools
Monitor PCBA risks
Obtain supply chain transparency
Gain control of product costs
Optimise PCB procurement
Boost supply chain collaboration
Clean messy data spread across tools
Clean-up master data
Manage parts library
Discover data jewels
Problem
Info spread across different systems like ERP, PLM and ECAD causes confusion, with duplicates and old data causing problems. Sometimes, links between data points go unnoticed, creating inefficiencies. The same part in different assemblies might have different internal numbers, potentially resulting in hidden and missed bundling opportunities and extra costs during procurement. If prices negotiated at different distributors aren't properly linked via IPNs, projects might end up using a pricier option instead of a cheaper one.
Solution
Our tool syncs data from ERP and other systems, ensuring accuracy. Through a one-time effort, all MPNs and IPNs are matched in our Part Library, preventing duplicates and enabling efficient bundling. Regular update syncs with ERP or PLM keep IPNs current, providing real-time insights into component usage. This not only helps navigate component obsolescence but also empowers smarter purchasing decisions by revealing the true demand and facilitating negotiations for better prices with suppliers.
Clean messy data spread across tools
Monitor PCBA risks
Obtain supply chain transparency
Gain control of product costs
Optimise PCB procurement
Boost supply chain collaboration
Internal numbers across systems create duplicates
Info spread across different systems like ERP, PLM and ECAD causes confusion, with duplicates and old data causing problems.
Sometimes, links between data points go unnoticed, creating inefficiencies.
The same part in different assemblies might have different internal numbers, potentially resulting in hidden and missed bundling opportunities and extra costs during procurement.
If prices negotiated at different distributors aren't properly linked via IPNs, projects might end up using a pricier option instead of a cheaper one.
MPN-based part library connects systems
Our tool syncs data from ERP and other systems, ensuring accuracy.
Through a one-time effort, all MPNs and IPNs are matched in our Part Library, preventing duplicates and enabling efficient bundling.
Regular update syncs with ERP or PLM keep IPNs current, providing real-time insights into component usage.
This not only helps navigate component obsolescence but also empowers smarter purchasing decisions by revealing the true demand and facilitating negotiations for better prices with suppliers.
Clean-up master data
Manage parts library
Discover data jewels
Internal numbers across systems create duplicates
Information spread across different systems like ERP, PLM and ECAD causes confusion, with duplicates and old data causing problems.
Sometimes, connections between data points go unnoticed, creating inefficiencies. The same part in different assemblies might have different internal numbers, potentially resulting in hidden and missed bundling opportunities and extra costs during procurement.
If prices negotiated at different distributors aren't properly linked to IPNs they might be missed by the team and projects can incur unnecessary supply costs.
MPN-based part library connects systems
Clean-up master data
Manage parts library
Discover data jewels
Luminovo syncs data from ERP and other systems, unifying information and ensuring accuracy.
Through a one-time effort, all MPNs and IPNs are matched in our Part Library, preventing duplicates and enabling efficient bundling.
Frequent updates ensure Luminovo is always synchronized with ERPs and PLMs keeping IPNs current. They also provide real-time insights into component usage.
Improved supply chain intelligence and transparency helps companies navigate component obsolescence and optimizes purchasing decisions and component pricing.
Unmanageable component risks cause iterations
Electronic assemblies come with a number of challenges like compliance, life cycle, and supply chain risks.
Compliance risks, tied to regulations like RoHS and REACH, demand careful consideration to avoid costly redesigns, particularly during product development but also over time as regulations change.
Component life cycles bring volatility into assemblies. For example, unexpected component discontinuation can lead to forced redesigns and increased costs.
Meanwhile, supply chains are susceptible to rapid changes, which are particularly noticeable in the form of difficult procurement or long delivery times.
Always up-to-date information expedites response
Verify product compliance
Identify second sources
Monitor part availability
Anticipate part life cycles
Luminovo’s solution provides a dynamic database that is always current and up-to-date, ensuring proactive awareness of all assembly risks.
End-of-life year predictions for each part help identify challenges before they can impact your supply chain.
Alert function enables real-time tracking of assembly changes, empowering customers to respond faster than competitors.
Monitor market shifts in delivery times, stock levels, and prices and compare against historical data to identify areas that require attention.
Intelligent recommendation engine offers alternative components to mitigate supply chain risks.
Relying on too few suppliers leads to suboptimal sourcing decisions
The significant effort needed to gather information from multiple suppliers is both time-consuming and economically impractical, limiting companies to only partial market insights.
Lack of market intelligence and transparency poses serious risks, especially when parts supply is limited. Prices can increase rapidly, and existing suppliers can struggle to meet demand.
The manual search for new suppliers or reliance on brokers is a cumbersome and costly process.
Increase access to a wider range of suppliers to improve quoting and pricing
Get quotes for BOMs
Manage supplier base
Discover new suppliers
Our software increases supplier diversity by providing access to real-time information on list prices, contract prices, delivery times, and stock levels from a vast network of more than 1000 suppliers, spanning PCB and parts manufacturers to distributors.
Take control with individual quotation requests to secure even more competitive pricing conditions from selected suppliers.
With Luminovo, users can efficiently manage suppliers, gather essential supply chain intelligence from approved sources, and seamlessly evaluate and integrate new suppliers into their base for optimal flexibility and market resilience.
Neglecting design-stage costs creates procurement issues
Most companies only determine the actual new product costs once designs are finalized.
Understanding component pricing and new product costs early in the design and development process, however, can create a competitive advantage and prevent production delays and unnecessary rework.
Instant cost indications allow mindful designing
Determine should-costs
Identify PCBA cost drivers
Calculate assembly costs
Calculate material costs
Luminovo empowers hardware engineering, cost engineering, product management, and procurement to swiftly determine precise PCBA costs.
By simply uploading BOMs and PCB designs, Luminovo customers can determine real-time material cost trends and calculate and compare in-house manufacturing costs to outsourced manufacturing.
Identifying key cost drivers enables focused efforts for further reduction.
Cost transparency supports effective product and engineering decisions on part selection and manufacturing settings, while providing procurement the market intelligence required to identify potential savings and guide successful data-driven negotiations.
Inaccessible information on manufacturability and costs causes design violations
PCB design requires multiple stages of technical and functional optimization. When cost and manufacturability information is limited or inaccessible, designers can struggle to make the right decisions quickly and efficiently.
Design violations increase costs and are frequently identified only after completion and submission to EMS or PCB suppliers.
Rectifying these violations after the design phase is cumbersome and creates delays in product launches.
Post-design alternatives – for example, working around violations or finding new PCB suppliers to meet design requirements – are equally unattractive and entail higher costs and additional time and resources.
Integrated PCB suppliers offer instant design testing
Get quotes for PCBs
Check PCB design violations
Provide proprietary PCB API
We integrate multiple PCB suppliers into our software to provide a broader range of options. Each supplier details their specific manufacturing requirements in our platform.
Designs uploaded to Luminovo can easily be tested for manufacturability against supplier requirements, facilitating quick identification of design violations.
This enables users to pinpoint PCB suppliers which support their design or identify necessary design changes to align with specific suppliers early in the design process.
Additionally, Luminovo supports instant PCB quotes upon design upload or by initiating a manual quoting process. Instant quotes streamline the whole process and support efficient collaboration between suppliers and customers along the entire supply chain.
Communicating across systems is slow and error-prone
Upstream and downstream collaboration in the electronics supply chain is frequently hampered by traditional communication methods such as email, Excel, and phone calls. Initiating new projects requires back-and-forth communication between various supply chain stakeholders.
Silo’d data further aggravates the issues causing the potential for project delays. Throughout a project, communicating necessary design or BOM changes is hindered, particularly when parts unexpectedly become unavailable.
Extending collaboration down the supply chain with distributors, partners, suppliers, and PCB manufacturers remains fragmented and cumbersome across all stages of a product's life cycle.
Luminovo unites all stakeholders and data
Collaborate on customer projects
Operate branded PCB(A) webshop
Luminovo offers a solution designed to unite stakeholders across the entire supply chain, fostering joint collaboration from designers and EMS providers to part suppliers.
Within the tool, health dashboards for individual BOMs can be shared internally and externally, providing stakeholders with real-time intelligence into product risks such as availability, compliance, and life cycle.
The commenting function facilitates seamless communication and collaboration on part selections, alternative approvals, and other relevant issues.
For a more comprehensive approach, Luminovo extends collaboration to inviting customers or suppliers, initiating quotation processes, issue resolution, and streamlining BOM and manufacturing cleanup efforts.
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