So many vendors have had to go from JIT ordering to backlog ordering
that the parts that were ordered in 100's or 1000's are now being
ordered in the 10K's and 100K's or even 1MM's.. So the system is
broken. The fix isn't going to arrive until the market can rebalance.
Unfortunately this isn't like shifting production from office TP to
residential... Building FAB's is years..
On 9/27/21 9:18 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
That's what concerns me. Companies like packetflux deliver topnotch
gear at affordable prices. They stand behind their product.
So forrest may bring in 10 units to verify, then order months or years
worth of component. Somewhere up the chain though one of the
components components gets a shortcut to meet demand.
Something like the time chucks surge suppresors didnt get the flux
washed off the ethernet pins (note, ever since that, whenever I plug
in an rj45 I work it in and out 3 or 4 times,so the snafu created
outward quality checks) chuck stood by it, I think changed a vendor or
brought the process in house.
But that didnt change the fact that there was end user failure that
was not directly due to the manufacturers lack of due diligence. An
upstream in the chain cut a corner.
I'm dreading the consumer electronics hitting the market this holiday
season. I forsee a ton of weird shit hitting support that boils down
to supply chain component changes on the fly.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:19 PM Sean Heskett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm sorry to hear this Forest.
I wanted to send you some words of encouragement though. Your
products and the solutions they provide are EXTREMELY valuable to
not just my business but our whole industry. There is a slew of
stuff your products accomplish for us that would honestly take a
fraken-monster to replicate.
I know it's tough going and there's not really an end in sight
with these supply chain issues, not just for you but for America
and the world. Unfortunately we've off-shored most of our
manufacturing and that won't come back home quick. With all
the weird things we've had to deal with the last couple years, I
have to keep telling myself "This too shall pass".
*But please please please keep doing what you are doing!!!! You
are a true hero of the WISP world who makes products we all need!!!*
Please let us know if there's any way we can help.
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 4:06 PM Forrest Christian (List Account)
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm getting really tired of dealing with supply chain issues.
Like burnt out, don't want to do this anymore, I've had
enough tired.
Just the things I'm dealing with today:
The last few days, all of my spare time has been related to
reviewing options to replace a part which has become
unobtainum. Like as in, manufacturer has moved from a long
lead time to 'don't bother asking'. This seems to happen on a
recurring basis now (with different parts) - versus pre-covid
it was maybe once every year or two (since I'm careful to
select parts to avoid this issue). I've had one part I've
had to switch vendors on like 6 times now.
And it's not just parts, my enclosure manufacturer for the
rackinjectors sent us this gem today:
"We had the enclosures ready for pickup since last week, but
our road is under maintenance and the whole street got ripped
off. My forklift is not able to get off from our driveway to
the road because the step is very steep. I heard the city will
start paving tomorrow. Hopefully we can load the pallet by
Wednesday."
Can we please go back to the way it was in 2019 sometime soon?
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