Designing for Supply Chain Resilience: How Design Decisions Impact Sourcing, Compliance, Lifecycle, and Risk

Most sourcing risk is already fixed by the time a BOM reaches procurement. The part chosen in schematic capture determines lead time, cost exposure, obsolescence horizon and regulatory status, yet it is usually chosen with none of that information visible.

This session examines where component risk actually enters a design, and what it costs to correct it late.

We will cover the four dimensions engineers rarely see at selection time:

• Sourcing and availability


• RoHS and REACH status


• Lifecycle stage and years to end of life


• Concentration risk across suppliers and regions

We will also look at how teams are shortening the loop between engineering and procurement, and what a workable review point looks like when a design is still open to change.

We will conclude by showing this in practice: SiliconExpert lifecycle, PCN and risk data surfaced directly in Altium Agile Teams, so engineering and procurement work from the same BOM and the same part intelligence.

Who should attend: hardware engineers, engineering managers, component engineers and procurement teams who share responsibility for what ends up on the bill of materials.