Price List

[kookie22]

Hello, where can i enter all the individual components of a BOM and get an instant quote? any such websites? thanks.

 

[fingers]

What Country are you in? www.rswww.com or http://uk.farnell.com are a good starting point for pricing in the UK. Although I wouldn't use them for mass production.

 

[kookie22]

I'm in Canada, the price for 1000 would be nice, but the list price for 1 also. Is there a general rule of thumb here? like listed price could be divided by 2 if quantity reaches 1000..?

 

[fingers]

Is there a general rule of thumb here? like listed price could be divided by 2 if quantity reaches 1000..?

Not really, it depends entirely upon what parts you are using. The more specialist a part is, the less of a price reduction you will get on it if you buy in quantity. Besides, you can't cost a product based on a rule of thumb... thats how you lose money!

Have a look to see what I mean:
try https://www.rs-components.com/
https://export.farnell.com/ and pick your country.
(These two are catalogue companies, who are good for fast delivery, but not so competitive on price.)

Are you a starting a company, etc...? I would recommend sourcing components for 1000off from specialist dealers.

 

[Russlk]

Allied and Mouser and probably others will let you enter a bill of materials. I have never used that feature, but it would be handy in your case.

 

[hjames]

BOM's get very complex as soon as you start dealing with non-generic parts. Speed/temperature ratings, package types, and now there's the whole RoHS mess floating around.

Also unless you've tailored your parts for a particular distributor, you're likely to have to go to multiple distributors, each with their own particular part number. Things get even more fun if you don't want to wait for x weeks of leadtime.

There used to be a couple companies in the dot-com boom that focused on doing the BOM thing, I think https://www.partminer.com/ is one of the few ones left standing. I've never used them, and I think they require $ to do anything useful.

Personally I just manually specify the distributors and let my assembly house (which I trust for this stuff) handle most of the pricing details - for small quantity projects, assembly cost is going to be in the same ballpark as the actual parts cost.

 

[philba]

Allied and Mouser and probably others will let you enter a bill of materials. I have never used that feature, but it would be handy in your case.

mouser's "My Mouser" and their project manager are great. it makes it really easy to spec out a bom for a project and then you just order 1000 of that project to see what the price breaks are. no need to complete the order so it doesn't cost.

 

[kookie22]

thanks a bunch, i'll give it a go!