Every electronics company wants availability and assurance of supply from semiconductor manufacturers. Purchasing managers at both large and small companies work to streamline operations and improve the workflow of their procurement systems with one goal in mind: to get the analog and embedded processing semiconductors they need so that designers can speed time to market for their designs.
Purchasers want better transparency from their suppliers, especially complete visibility into the inventory of available products. Texas Instruments (TI) continues to invest in advanced ordering, tracking and shipping capabilities to make the purchasing experience as convenient as possible. We provide a real-time view of immediately available inventory on TI.com, self-service tools with instant access to order management, and a feature-rich myTI dashboard to navigate through the onboarding and purchasing process. Our suite of APIs enables direct connections of procurement systems to TI, giving you transparency and confidence in your supply chain.
Transformation is long overdue in semiconductor procurement. While large companies like automakers may have advanced purchasing capabilities, companies in other industries struggle to make their existing procurement systems more sophisticated, leading to frustration, delays and potential order errors. For many organizations, the handoff from engineering requirements to procurement is manual.
Some companies still use email when purchasing from suppliers. Others must re-key every order, invoice or request for the material requirements planning documents they submit to a supplier, which introduces the potential for error and wastes valuable time.
These common practices have made semiconductor procurement more complex, costly and less reliable than it should be.
Over the last decade, TI has invested in self-service capabilities on TI.com to make it more convenient to purchase our products, automating the order management experience to make it easier to find the right qualified products for designs. We want engineers to have seamless access to our large and diverse product portfolios.
As a semiconductor manufacturer, it is important to us that you have the ability to make fast and efficient procurement decisions. Unprecedented insights into availability, detailed product information such as material attribute and quality documentation, and comprehensive order management make it possible to gain faster access to inventory and thus get to market faster. The enhancements we’ve made give you better control over your buying process, resulting in an improved supply chain.
Self-service purchasing features available from TI:
The material attribute data tool in the dashboard gives purchasers and engineers direct visibility into material attribution data such as country of origin, lead times, TI.com inventory and more.
An account administrator can quickly add users, manage permissions and account control, and open new company accounts. Administrators can also delegate purchasing and create reusable checkout profiles, as well as keep track of all purchasing information in a consolidated order history and invoicing dashboard. A myTI company account is the only way to access TI’s suite of APIs and organize a company’s users under one account.