Loïc Biarez joins Luminovo’s ambassador network, and both sides launch a joint program for the French market, starting with a webinar on October 8 on what changes when BOM quoting tools are built for AI.

MUNICH, [September 15, 2026] – Luminovo, the AI-powered software company digitizing the electronics supply chain, today announced that Loïc Biarez has joined its ambassador network. Together, Luminovo and Loïc Biarez will run a series of joint activities in France to help electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) rethink how they source and quote electronics.

Loïc Biarez has spent more than 30 years in electronics sourcing and supply chain software. He founded Pertilience and built Buymanager, a sourcing and BOM-costing platform used by EMS providers across Europe and Asia, before Supplyframe acquired the company in 2018. He was later appointed VP of Product Marketing at Supplyframe.

As an ambassador, Loïc Biarez will help EMS providers and OEMs in his network modernize how they source and quote electronics, and share his view on where the technology is headed. The wider goal of the collaboration is to educate the French market: joint webinars, quoting process audits, and appearances at industry events, all in French, for teams that have run their quoting on the same tools for a decade or more.

“I was impressed by Luminovo’s solution. Its capabilities are unmatched in addressing challenges specific to the electronics industry: it automates BOM interpretation and offers dedicated workflows for EMS providers and OEMs that integrate with each company’s existing systems and the rest of the electronics supply chain. Built on state-of-the-art architecture with a fast, efficient user experience, it is a real asset for the challenges of today and tomorrow,” said Loïc Biarez.

“When it comes to strategic sourcing, Buymanager has long been the gold standard in the industry. Loïc and his team encoded decades of industry experience into a product that users love and find incredibly hard to replace,” said Sebastian Schaal, co-founder of Luminovo. “At Luminovo, we’ve worked relentlessly to build the best software for every procurement and supply chain activity in electronics. Loïc put our product through a rigorous audit before joining. Having him come on board as an ambassador is the ultimate seal of approval that we’ve reached that bar.”

The first of those projects is a webinar on October 8 at 11 a.m. CEST, « Solution traditionnelle ou conçue pour l’IA : ce qui change pour les EMS et les outils de chiffrage de BOM » (Traditional or built for AI: what changes for EMS providers and BOM quoting tools). Over 45 minutes, Loïc Biarez and Emilie Salonen, Account Executive at Luminovo, will compare traditional and AI-native quoting systems on the points that decide whether a tool gets used: speed of adoption, implementation effort, two-way data exchange with the ERP, data quality, and how proactively a team can steer its quoting pipeline. The session closes with a live look at Luminovo and how an EMS provider migrates in six weeks without interrupting day-to-day operations.

The webinar is aimed at quotation managers, operations and supply chain directors, and current Buymanager users. Attendees can request a free quoting process audit or AI maturity assessment afterward. Registration is open at luminovo.org/webinars/solution-ia-chiffrage-ems.

About Luminovo

Luminovo is a strategic electronics supply chain platform with 300+ industry-leading customers worldwide. The software connects stakeholders, data, and workflows across OEMs, EMS, and suppliers on a single, cloud-native platform, where AI automates repetitive work — from BOM interpretation to sourcing — so product innovations reach the market faster, more profitably, and with greater resilience. Supply chain data stays connected; risks are visible with actionable alternatives; sourcing is automated; and everyone works from the same live data.

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