I am sure Dell documented the risk with JIT and have the appropriate solutions in place, or did they take a page from Boeing's book?
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 3:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Could be some huge delays on hardware orders across all vendors? That's the joy of just-in-time supplies. Large inventories are mostly a thing of the past... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Ben N <[email protected]> wrote: I just got this from my Dell Rep. Makes me wonder sometimes if they just want me to hurry up and order things i have coming up or if this is a real concern for future orders. We have an urgent matter and want to ensure I've sent this message to all my clients and addressed the current situation to plan accordingly for your projects. If you have any orders that need to be deployed within the next month. Please get those orders in ASAP to ensure we can try to meet the deadline for deployment. There's currently an issue with our suppliers due to the floods in Thailand on HD's ETC. This is vendor agnostic across the globe and only have a limited supply of Drives, before we start seeing very long lead times on builds and equipment shipping, Suppliers are also stating their will be an increase in price due to supply constraints, below is a link about the supplier issues currently taking place at this time. If you have any questions regarding this, please let me know. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/thai-flooding-impact-tech-compani es-suppliers-14821252 -BenN ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
