Market intelligence

Price with conviction.
Source before
the shortage.

Rama gives your team live visibility into authorised, broker, and spot market pricing, incoming shortages, and part lifecycle changes — so you're making decisions on data, not instinct.

Live
market bands on every line
Early
shortage signals before customers ask
01
Market pricing

The whole market.
In one view.

The authorised distributor list is one price. The market is three. Rama puts authorised, broker, and spot market bands next to your own pricing on every line — plus the best price each customer has ever paid. Reps quote with the full picture, not one slice of it.

Market bands — LM358DR, 2,500 units
ChannelLowMidHighYour pricePosition
Authorised$0.30$0.36$0.44$0.42Within band
Broker$0.26$0.31$0.38$0.42↑ Above band
Spot market$0.22$0.27$0.33$0.42↑ Above band
Best customer paid$0.38Anchor
Three channels, one row
Authorised, broker, and spot market price ranges shown side by side against your price on every line. Not three separate tools, not three browser tabs — one row, every channel.
Above band, flagged before send
When your price sits above the market on any channel, Rama tells the rep before the quote leaves. When you're below by enough to be leaving margin on the table, it tells them that too.
What the customer has actually paid
Each customer's own buying history surfaced as a price anchor. The best price they paid for this part previously becomes the floor for the next negotiation — not a vague number someone remembers from six months ago.
Movement, not just snapshots
30-day and 90-day price velocity on every part. When a line has climbed 18% over the quarter, reps know to anchor higher. When it's falling, they know to move first. The market doesn't stand still; the data shouldn't either.
02
Shortage & demand

Catch shortages
before customers
ask you.

By the time a shortage shows up in your order book, you're six weeks late. Rama fuses market-wide inventory velocity, lifecycle status, search trend acceleration, and manufacturer allocation pressure into one shortage score per part — so you call customers before they call you.

Hot-parts heat map — shortage score by part
STM32F103
91
score
LM2596S
78
score
ESP32
72
score
LM358DR
58
score
ATMEGA328
41
score
TL072CP
34
score
NE555P
29
score
MC14001B
22
score
LM7805
18
score
BC547
14
score
1N4007
11
score
LM317T
8
score
Stock velocity scoring
Tracks the rate at which inventory is declining across the market — flags parts where depletion is accelerating, not just low.
Weeks ahead, not weeks late
By the time a part appears on a competitor's 'hot parts' newsletter, Rama has been flagging it for weeks. The signal comes from the velocity of decline, not the moment of empty shelves.
Score becomes outreach
Every hot part links to the customers who buy it — so the heat map isn't just a dashboard, it's a list of accounts to call before the panic call comes in. Intelligence turns into a workday.
03
Part record

Part records that
never go stale.

Quoting an EOL part is a phone call you don't want to make. Missing an RoHS flag is a sale you don't want to lose. Rama keeps every part record live — compliance, lifecycle, country of origin, alternates — and watches manufacturer feeds for the change that turns a clean quote into an awkward conversation.

Part record — LM358DR · auto-enriched
LifecycleActive
RoHSCompliant
REACHNo SVHC
ECCNEAR99
HTS Code8542.39.0001
Country of originTW
Alternates in catalog (3)
LM358NActive$0.394,200 in stock
LM2904NActive$0.3612,500 in stock
PCN feed — last 7 days
TILM358DRToday
Package marking change effective Q3 2025
2 customers actively quoting this part
Compliance, all of it
Lifecycle, RoHS, REACH, ECCN, HTS, country of origin — populated on every part, re-verified on a rolling schedule. The rep never opens a datasheet PDF to confirm a status that may have shifted last week.
PCN early-warning
Product change notifications tracked the moment manufacturers post them. When TI changes a package marking or NXP shifts country of origin, the customer hears it from you — before their incoming inspection catches it.
Alternates you can actually ship
Cross-references filtered to your own catalog — not a generic list of 47 datasheet alternates. The 3 your warehouse stocks, with current prices and lifecycle status. The substitution conversation gets shorter.
Records that don't go stale
Every field timestamped and refreshed against manufacturer sources continuously. The lifecycle status you quoted against today isn't last year's status with optimism attached.
04
Today's moves

Intelligence that
becomes a workday.

Intelligence is only useful if it drives action. Rama takes everything on this page — the pricing bands, the shortage scores, the manufacturer changes — and turns each into a specific move on a specific account this morning. Not a dashboard to read. A list to work through.

Today's work list — sorted by revenue impact
Chase
Meridian Systems
Quote #4821 open 6 days, no response. $14k at stake — follow up now.
$14,200
Win-back
Nexus Controls
Lost on price 6 wks ago. LM358DR vendor cost dropped — now competitive.
$9,400
Dormant
Aldridge Automation
91 days silent. STM32 shortage forming — matches their core buy pattern.
$22,000
Follow-up
Volta Systems
Quoted TL072CP last week. Stock position tightening — good time to close.
$6,800
Win-back
Precision Electronics
MOQ on LM2596 halved. Previously lost on minimum quantity — winnable now.
$5,100
Every signal becomes a row
Pricing alerts from market bands, parts heating up on the shortage map, PCN updates affecting active quotes — each becomes a specific row on a specific rep's list. The whole page lands somewhere reps can actually use it.
Sorted by revenue at stake
Each row carries the dollar value behind the move — quote size, dormant account potential, loss recoverable. Reps stop working on whatever shouted loudest in email and start working on what moves the number.
Reasons reps can act on
Each row spells out exactly why this account is on today's list — 'lost on price six weeks ago, vendor cost dropped 12%' rather than 'flagged for follow-up.' The rep opens the conversation knowing the angle, not asking what changed.
Live, not batched
The list updates the instant a signal fires — a shortage score crosses a threshold, a vendor cost drops, a PCN lands. No overnight batch, no morning catch-up. The rep returning from lunch sees what moved at 1pm, not what was true at 9.

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