One of my revenue streams is building industrial explosion proof control panels for the oil field. In all my years I’ve never seen the supply chain this Wonky….redefines transitory for me when my parts guys are saying maybe 2024?
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Cool company.
Where’s the bottleneck with the supply chain? Asia?
It’s part specific. Our stuff is sourced globally. Shipping is another hold up. I really believe for some of our parts it goes all the way to the source for the raw material.
Many mines were closed for an extended amount of time. Can’t just flip a switch and everything back to normal at scale when the world decided to go to just in time inventory.
Transitory/temporary.
Just like the temporary taxes introduced and temporary measures for flying etc. All for our safety
Is it mostly inflation causing this disruption? What do providers say their issue is in general?
This image brought back cool memories from my Process Automation class on my undergrad.
Didn’t understand anything about this but looks cool!
Keep up the work brother 🤝🏼💪🏽
I'm also seeing massive disruptions in my industry. I'm a locksmith and for a couple of years I've been having what seems to be an increasingly difficult time getting hardware for customers.
Everything from door hardware to lock cylinders to transponder keys for vehicles have been difficult to reliably buy.
I've had businesses operate outside of regulatory compliance for weeks or more simply because my distributors are waitlisting everything I need to bring them back to code.
From what I can tell, during the lockdowns a lot of manufacturers, for various imposed reasons, simply could not survive. Those with big enough name recognition were, either voluntarily or otherwise, forced to consolidate. At scale, those consolidations seem to not be going smoothly.
This seems to be worsened by the distributors also consolidating.
I'm having a hard time getting anything and what I do get has massive QC issues.
It's... fun.
🎯 like you we are also seeing quality drops across the board.
Nice set up👍🏻🤙🏻