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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
floobydust:
--- Quote from: Ysjoelfir on January 12, 2021, 11:28:10 am ---What the heck has happened here? The last times I was in the antenna section I didn't remember it being THAT shitty....
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That is so bad, it shows they're clueless about the products they sell.
- picklists are being blindly populated by specific values from each manufacturer- instead of a class or grouping, or range to input.
- picklists that are are stupid, qualities that nobody purchases based upon, like VSWR.
Obviously nobody there has used components or done design work to know what parameters are important.
I know EE's that don't even own a soldering iron- and guess who's hiring them en masse lol.
So we have to complain here about the obvious, argue for the mess to get cleaned up? It's a multi-billion dollar corporation that's inept with their website design. This thread can never end.
Bud:
Each time i see this happen i always have just one question:
- What was wrong with the existing design?
rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: Bud on January 12, 2021, 11:35:56 pm ---Each time i see this happen i always have just one question:
- What was wrong with the existing design?
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Nothing. Change for the sake of change. The same happens in lots of places. It is infuriating at times.
If the accounting department measured and accounted for the man/hours lost in productivity, these initiatives would either be totally shot down or much better thought out.
SVFeingold:
Might as well use this forum to gripe about one issue I have with DK. Which AFAIK isn't new by any stretch, but after having to input like 200 parts into a BOM recently...
Please just have the Digikey PNs use the same format? It's so annoying to have part numbers like this: NHD-0216K3Z-FS(RGB)-FBW-V3-ND
Rather than just using a numpad to quickly punch out part numbers you have to type all this nonsense in...makes the process much slower. If it evolves to where you're typing in the MPN in addition to a bunch of other special characters and designators (already the case for certain types of parts)...
I'm about 99.9% sure this will never change but there, I said it.
rsjsouza:
Your post reminded me how we used to have someone that had to verify the BOM of several Contract Manufacturers and input these manuly into SAP. She was always fixing small typos on part numbers (suggesting they were also manually typed at the customer's side) and, for a few other customers, had to convert their own house part numbers into ours.
Even after an order entry system accessible by the customer was set up, this still went on for several years as some were reluctant to change their own ways. Only after she decided to leave the company is when an executive decision was made to push back manual order entries from the customer.
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