Hey ya'll!

I know everybody is experiencing some sort of negative effect from the
current component crisis, but lately we've been experiencing a really bad
trend.

The situation is that when we find a vendor (distributors mostly) that has a
part we need, we'll place the order and give them a P.O., and get a delivery
date.

The delivery comes and the part doesn't show-up at recieving. We'll call to
try and find out where the part is, and get a response back like; "Oh I was
just about to call you to let you know we've had to push the delivery out 2
more weeks..."

As you can imagine, the part usually is needed on boards that were in the
schedule to be shipped before the end of the month and we find out about this
on the 25th of the month...crap! It's almost like the parts are being sold
out from under us for a higher price...'course I can't really prove that,
it's just strange that we get one ship date when we place the P.O. and
something else when the original ship date actually arrives.

They're talking about building boards to shortages here, so that when we get
the parts we can finish the boards quickly. I'm seeing visions of hundreds of
partially completed boards being stored all over the floor...not a good
vision.

Are any of you experiencing the same deal?

Just wondering is all...

-Steve Gregory-

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