BOM Risk Management: Awareness Is Not Enough
July 22, 2026
Most engineering and procurement teams know their bills of materials carry risk. The parts that stop production are the ones nobody flagged. Component obsolescence costs teams up to $250,000 per event. That number covers emergency sourcing, expedited freight, engineering redesign, and lost production time. It assumes a team catches the problem at all before a line stops. Most teams acknowledge BOM […]