What is Commodity IQ?
Commodity IQ is a unique, predictive, and prescriptive view of electronic components, systems, and associated commodities. Designed to enhance sourcing & engineering strategies plus support everyday decision points, Commodity IQ provides quantitative and qualitative and marketplace, supply, demand, pricing, and design-in dynamics.
What commodities are included?
Commodity IQ currently includes over 400 major electronics and related commodities.
What exactly is delivered with Commodity IQ?
- Commodity IQ is updated continuously online and includes comprehensive quarterly summaries. It provides current analysis and rolling four-quarter forecasts.
- Market Dynamics including commodity demand, supply and capacity, and the supplier landscape.
- Pricing Situation including pricing specifics, change factors, and forecast rationale.
- Lead Time Analysis including demand and capacity specifics, change factors, and forecasts.
- Design Index including monthly engineering design cycle patterns by Supplier, Commodity, Sub-Commodity, Geography, and Vertical.
- Demand Index including monthly indicators like e-commerce transactions and RFQs from the Supplyframe DSI Network.
What are the sources of information, expertise, and analysis?
- Commodity IQ is powered by Design-to-Source Intelligence (DSI) and derived from critical, real-world insights and the commodity management expertise of industry leaders and Supplyframe DSI Network partners, as well as industry and market research providers.
- CIQ leverages billions of signals from Supplyframe's technology platform including 70+ vertical search engines, 10+ million users, $150+ billion in annual spend management, and $500+ million of transactions.
- Commodity, sourcing, and engineering professionals including over 30 subject matter experts managing hundreds of millions of dollars of design and procurement spending.
- DSI Network partners include over 500 companies across the electronics value chain, from IDMs to OEMs and from Suppliers to Distributors and EMS providers.
What is a "Design Trend", "Price Trend", "Lead Time Trend", etc. and how is the data in the chart sourced / calculated?
- Design and Demand indices express billions of normalized, indexed signals and activities across the Supplyframe DSI network,with a baseline of 100 representing the 2020 monthly median for each commodity.The Design Index Represents engineering design cycle patterns via activities such as CAD model downloads, and the Demand Index Represents sourcing patterns via activities such as e-commerce transactions.
- Price, Lead Time, and Inventory indices represent market measures for each, sourced from hundreds of distribution (franchised and non-franchised) and supplier feeds.
- At-Volume Lead Time Trends represent contracted, quoted, and delivered lead times based on thousands of MPNs across millions of data points quarterly and are sourced from Supplyframe DSI partners.
- At-Volume four-quarter rolling Market Dynamics, Pricing Situation, and Lead Time Analysis heat maps are established and informed by Supplyframe DSI partners and are updated at least monthly.
Is the data updated real-time? If not, what's the frequency at which it's updated?
- Quantitative analysis is updated in real-time and qualitative analysis is updated daily.
How do I add new team members to our account?
- Please refer to this article on adding and removing users.