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tooki:

--- Quote from: eevcandies on October 13, 2020, 10:56:31 pm ---What I meant by no suppliers of the same part is that they aren’t allowing additional suppliers of the same SKU
Oh is this what you mean???  Keep dreaming
       Once approved, you are given access to your own supplier portal. You determine the products you sell, you determine your price, you set up your shipping, and once a customer orders your product
       from digikey.com you ship directly to them.

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You don’t seem to know what a SKU is... on DK, third party items (even if it’s a part DK sells itself) are assigned  their own SKUs.

DK even uses separate SKUs for the same exact item for external stock. For example, DK carries practically all Texas Instruments parts and stocks most of them. But for many TI products, they also have the ability to grab from TI’s private stock (TI uses DK for the logistics of their own parts store, it seems). But it’s at different prices and with different availability, so it shows up as a different SKU.

In contrast, on Amazon, if a third party seller offers an item whose UPC or ISBN is already know to the system, it gets concatenated into the same item. (In fact, if you use Fulfillment by Amazon, when you shop your stock to them, they commingle it with their own and every other FBA sellers’!)


--- Quote from: eevcandies on October 13, 2020, 10:56:31 pm ---The list is not showing you parts that aren’t cut tape — they’ve finally concatenated different packaging of the same PART into one line item, so you’re simply seeing that other packaging exists.
You miss the point entirely...when I select the FILTER cut tape, the ONLY parts that should show are cut tape.  If you are looking at a potential ist of 300 cut tape choices, having  4 other categories (full reels, digireels (lacking prices), etc) included, makes the list 4 times longer and more importantly each screen can then only only show 1/3 to 1/4 as many parts able to be compared due to all of the wasted lines...NOT good.

This has been brought up fpr several weeks and nothing has been done.

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You said it “ignores” the selection. It doesn’t, it’s just not designed the way you want. Fact is, if a product only comes packaged in, for example, trays, and you select “cut tape”, it won’t show up. Now that they are (finally) not making whole separate products out of different packaging of the same exact part, the list shows the part, and within the part’s line, it shows the available packaging. I think there is a strong argument for leaving that information out of the list altogether in most situations. But the way it is now is not broken just because it doesn’t work the way you want. I fully appreciate that this design wastes space, and actually agree with you on this aspect. But I take issue with the rabid, imprecise way you express your displeasure.
eevcandies:
It doesn’t, it’s just not designed the way you want.

Perhaps you are not familiar with filters...have been filtering by voltage range, current limit ohms, cut tape, in stock, active, ect for years with no problem.  Now it is failing to properly do so.  If we want to see other options, like reels, bags, busloads, whatever, then we will select those & expect to see them.
If you select to show only 100 ohm and 488 ohm resistors, you should not see 345 ohm resistors appear.

You don’t seem to know what a SKU is  You don't seem to be investigating ...there are only digkey numbers and manufacturer numbers listed & where does it say they are limiting anything regarding sku's?   What limits digi from  selling a  LM947AA-XP3-2N  and also littlebug from selling a LM947AA-XP3-2N  (from who knows where)  ...nothing that is apparent.

As another example of the layout mess...where they need to have some width, they don't provide it & force the listing to waste 6 lines.  Yet where they don't need the width   they give 2x or more than what is needed, just to waste screen space.
KE5FX:

--- Quote from: eevcandies on October 14, 2020, 12:30:04 am ---If you select to show only 100 ohm and 488 ohm resistors, you should not see 345 ohm resistors appear.

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That actually got me a while back, although I don't recall if the culprit was DigiKey or Mouser.  I flamed them to a crisp for it, albeit politely.  8)   Something along the lines of, "Hello?  You are not eBay.  If I enter explicit part values into a search field, do not return parts with any other values, ever."

Come to think of it, I flamed eBay (politely) when they started pulling that crap, and it didn't help.  Maybe I'm just too polite...

It goes back to the unfortunate observation made earlier in the thread that (working) engineers have no role to play when these in-house decisions are made.  Companies like DigiKey and Mouser are great, but they don't eat their own dog food, and that means that when they screw up, you have to provide what amounts to free consulting to set them back on the right path.  Otherwise, they will make your job harder over time and render their own business less competitive without realizing it.

Here's another unfortunate move I've seen lately.  This time there's no question about the identity of the perpetrator:



Yeah, thanks, guys, I'm sure I'll have no difficulty remembering that "821XGLB" means "820 nH."  And I can't think of any scenarios in which this kind of product label might cause confusion (or worse) at the EMS facility.  |O

Bud:
I think part of the problem with the sick web pages layouts are the "modern" imbecilic web platforms frameworks. Not everything may be in control by web site designers, they may be limited by the the tools/APIs and built-in design elements.
rdl:
I don't see the problem with that label. 0603LS-821XGLB is the manufacturer's (Coilcraft) part number. Mouser just adds a prefix.


--- Quote from: KE5FX on October 14, 2020, 02:10:49 am ---...
Yeah, thanks, guys, I'm sure I'll have no difficulty remembering that "821XGLB" means "820 nH."
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