General Information

The design of our system is directed towards the trading of electronic components while providing a medium for our members to develop and establish solid business relationships.

Our dynamic searching system and interactive networking platform, not only provides access to millions of component line items, covering every type of integrated circuit, but it also provides members an efficient method to create and sustain networks of like-minded individuals.

The internal rating system, completely controlled by our members, provides further insight into the experience of members with a specific buyer or supplier. Recommendations are entirely maintained by the EPRcenter members, providing greater assurance that the risk of dealing with a new vendor, is further minimized by the positive experiences from other EPRcenter members. Designed with powerful sourcing and procurement capabilities, our services are all easily accessible in a fast, neutral, and vendor friendly environment.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do I need to register?

In order to provide customized services and features, registration is required for all users. Such features may include previous search history, requested parts alerts, contact history, internal messaging, etc.

Can I register several employees from different company branches under the same account?

No.

Why are there multiple contact fields?

In the case you would like for ex. a component or RFQ to be sent to a alternate employee, you can use these additional fields to register those additional employees. When your ready to make your selection, simply choose one of your alternate employees. For example: One person submits RFQ's, another person handles invoices.

How do I search for a part?

On the top of the Part Page use the search box to search by part number or by part manufacturer.

What type of items can be uploaded to EPRcenter?

EPRc allows the inventory upload of just about every type of electronic component or related service.

How do I upload my inventory and which formats are accepted?

Upload your inventory by clicking on the Upload Inventory button. Your data file must be in TXT tab delimited or CSV comma delimited format only, with a maximum file size of 1.2mb or 25,000 line items. CSV comma delimited file format can be used only if there are no commas in any fields in your file. If you are not sure - use TXT tab delimited format.

How do I create a TXT tab delimited or CSV comma delimited file?

Please view our online tutorial, which can be viewed here:
http://www.eprcenter.com/data_upload.php#

How do I check my messages?

This can be achieved by clicking on the Messages tab. Users can locate a specific message, searching by the type of message, Mem Id, To Mem Id, Manfacturer or Part Number.

What is the Support page about?

From the tickets page you can keep track of your support Requests. Here you can view all support requests submitted by your company, as well as responses by the EPRc staff.

Information For Suppliers

Upload Information

The EPRCenter database is designed to be used by electronic component suppliers, buyers and procurement professionals.
Suppliers are required to update their inventory at least once a month. Search results are sorted by upload date, so the inventory uploaded recently are displayed on the top of the list.
You may upload your inventory daily using an online upload form and email.
With each new upload, the old data is always overwritten. EPRCenter does not provide any interface or tools for manipulating and editing the uploaded data.
To keep out database up to date EPRCenter reserves the right to purge the records that are more than 30 days old.

Please, submit only those parts that you have in stock.

Inventory File Format

Inventory file must contain data fields for Part Number Manufacturer, Description and Quantity.

Inventory Upload Methods

There are several methods of getting your inventory into the EPRCenter database:
E-Mail Attachment (preferred inventory upload method)
EPRCenter can accept almost any inventory file type for Email Attachments including text (txt), comma delimited (csv) or Excel (xls) with reasonable number of columns and any column order. We prefer zipped attachments up to 8MB in size.

Upload Online

EPRCenter can process your data automatically if you will be using 4 column templates in Tab Delimited or CSV formats. Tab Delimited (.txt) format is preferred because it allows to have commas in the Description column. Uploading process consists of 4 steps:

1. uploading your Tab Delimited file
2. previewing 10 rows of data to check if there are any problems
3. inserting data into the database
4. previewing the inserted data
There is a file size limitation for Online Upload: 1.2MB which is approximately corresponds to 20,000 to 24,000 parts and may take up to 25 seconds to be inserted into the DB.
Note that rows with missing quantities and part numbers will not be inserted.