I've worked at two companies this year, and both have the same issues. If you're buying several gazillion of the same part, you'll probably get your shipment. Your distributor experience is similar as well. I also think there's companies that double order in an effort to play this game, then cancel the balance when they get the amount they need, and it only makes things more fun. Imagine the part manufacturer- they make a bunch of stuff based on "demand" and then it sits around. So they make something else for a while. Eventually, surplus dwindles. Prices skyrocket. The cycle continues... -----Original Message----- From: Stephen R. Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:52 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Component shortages...a poll, sort of... 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- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------