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Handset Cost Model Subscription
Analyzing Mobile Handset Costs: Predicting Future Changes and Trends
Recent market volatility due to the pandemic has led to parts shortages and backlogs in manufacturing and logistics, resulting in increased costs. These cost increases are short-term and are expected to normalize eventually.
Visualize the ‘should cost’ and easily assess trade-offs to increase negotiating leverage with OEMs.
Remain up to date on associated costs related to all mobile handset models
The TechInsights Handset Cost Model Subscription provides mobile service providers with a reliable insight tool that shows when costs are expected to decrease, ensuring they’re getting a fair offer from mobile handset manufacturers that isn’t unnecessarily inflated. It also provides a detailed breakdown of not only component BOM costs but also the discrete non-BOM intangible costs that are typically harder to account for—i.e., development / NRE costs, manufacturing, licensing, overheads, gross margins, SG&A, R&D and shipping costs.
TechInsights’ Handset Cost Model enables product sourcing professionals to strategically:
- Configure any product at the component level based on selectable technologies, features, and product categories.
- Predict and plan product rollouts by forecasting real costs.
- Visualize cost versus value trade-offs to make informed decisions on supplier quotes.
- Evaluate real market cost impacts- volume, time in market, and handset quality level.
- Leverage data for fair negotiations by identifying how much profit is in supplier quotes to set realistic expectations.
The Handset Cost Model helps establish a level playing field between mobile service providers and mobile handset vendors based on reliable insights built through 30+ years of experience in the semiconductor and consumer electronics industry.
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