PCB Chat 155: Breadboard's Nemanja Jokanovic on Automating BOM Management

About this episode

Nemanja Jokanovic discusses the challenges in BOM management and how Breadboard optimizes this process.

Nemanja Jokanovic is the executive leader of Breadboard, an AI-powered platform that he believes will revolutionize BOM management. In this interview with Andy Shaughnessy, Jokanovic, an Octopart alum, discusses the many sourcing challenges facing EMS companies today, and he explains how Breadboard optimizes BOM analysis and supply chain management. Stop by and chat with Jokanovic in person at PCB East 2026. Breadboard will be exhibiting on April 29 at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA.

People in this episode

Guest: Nemanja Jokanovic

Topics covered

• BOM management
• AI
• supply chain management
• EMS companies

Keywords

• automation
• sourcing challenges
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Breadboard

Places: Worcester, MA

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