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I've been asking for months and the only response I've received was basically "sometime in the future"
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We have been getting dicked around by two mills and a distributor. We are getting our first 17-4 stock delivery in months next week, followed by another two weeks later and the deliveries are qued steady after that- we have like 240,000lbs on order, and everyone is pushing etas back months at a time multiple times.
Right now the jobs running on the floor are oriented not by sale priority but by what material stock sizes we have on hand.
We ordered from a second mill part way into this and they also are one month late.
That’s probably why the eta isn’t good. The metal markets are so screwed up our practice of ordering one year in advance isn’t early enough anymore so we have to push that to about one and a half years in advance.
Im pretty sure the distributor (1 of three vendors involved in stainless alone) sold us material at 100,000$ markup for allocation speed and then sold about 3/4 of it to other customers in the middle for more markup, because they are supplying partials on mill runs of material and mills don’t do partial runs. They have pushed the eta 2.5 months on partials and the second half is projected two months further out right now.
Logistics don’t work as well when etas are not adheared to.