About the author
Who writes cilm.tech and on what basis.
Alexander L. Litvin is an independent researcher working on component integrity and supply chain risk in electronics distribution.
Where the knowledge comes from
In electronic component distribution since 1998, on the receiving side of the supply chain: incoming inspection, channel qualification, and the failure modes that surface when a lot arrives and does not match its documentation.
The arguments on this site come from that vantage point. They are not a literature review.
What has been contributed
CILM — Component Integrity & Lifecycle Management — is a framework for assessing risk at the level of the production lot rather than the supplier. It was developed independently. Supply Chain Management Review has described the author as the “originator of the CILM methodology”.
The supporting work is public and citable:
- Procurement communications dataset — IEEE DataPort, DOI 10.21227/34y3-zj88
- CILM white paper — Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19657865
- “The hidden supply chain risk no dashboard shows” — Supply Chain Management Review, 30 June 2026
- “When component verification becomes operational” — Supply Chain Management Review, 7 July 2026
- Part three of the series — Supply Chain Management Review, 14 July 2026
- Peer-reviewed articles, each with a DOI — listed on ORCID
Verification
Everything above can be checked without taking the author’s word for it.
- ORCID: 0009-0009-6744-4152
- IEEE Senior Member
- IEEE Reliability Society