The Device Price Watch.
A monthly record of what device pricing actually did last month — every manufacturer price action MCPC partner management tracked, with effective dates, reported scale, and the lead times worth planning around.
Monthly report
The Device Price Watch.
A monthly record of what device pricing actually did last month — every manufacturer price action MCPC partner management tracked, with effective dates, reported scale, and the lead times worth planning around.
Manufacturers are publishing increases weeks in advance now. Read at the start of the month, the report is a buying calendar rather than a post-mortem.
Published the first business day of every month · four pages · free
What each issue covers
- Every price action reported that month, with effective dates and scale
- Increases already published for the months ahead
- Lead times and supply signals by device category
- One planning move worth making before the next date lands
Latest issue
August is a buying window.
Four price actions landed in July and two Lenovo increases are already published for September and October — which makes August the month to pull configured-to-order demand forward.
Three things to know
- Order Lenovo CTO by Aug 31Pricing rises September 1; shipment by September 30 holds current pricing.
- Requote every Surface orderQuotes issued before July 31 are expired, and backorders will not be honored at prior pricing.
- Rugged tablets at 16 weeksQ4 field and clinical deployments are already at the order-now threshold.
All issues
Every month, on the record.
Issues are published the first business day of each month and stay available here.
Why we publish it
Pricing is a planning problem.
MCPC tracks manufacturer and distribution pricing because our customers buy devices at scale, and because a published effective date is only useful to an organization that can see its own demand coming.
The dependency is fleet visibility — device age, condition, and replacement timeline. If your organization cannot produce that forecast today, the report will tell you what it is costing.