Supply chain issues?

[Andrew1983]

What are you waiting for that was due days/weeks/months ago?

I had months to wait for parts for a hedge cutter ordered in January arrived end of March! A new combi drill ordered October due March still hasn’t arrived, pins for the power Harrow tines on the old one took about 3 weeks arrive, the tines a week instead of next day/48hours of normal.

I’m told cement is in short supply as we go to start concreting.....

Local ag merchants told me the other day he’s out of stock of so much timber/ fencing products plus long lead times on cattle/sheep handling stuff, some items been on order for months. Things are in a right mess!!

 

[Courier]

What are you waiting for that was due days/weeks/months ago?

I had months to wait for parts for a hedge cutter ordered in January arrived end of March! A new combi drill ordered October due March still hasn’t arrived, pins for the power Harrow tines on the old one took about 3 weeks arrive, the tines a week instead of next day/48hours of normal.

I’m told cement is in short supply as we go to start concreting.....

Local ag merchants told me the other day he’s out of stock of so much timber/ fencing products plus long lead times on cattle/sheep handling stuff, some items been on order for months. Things are in a right mess!!

Its ALL down to CV-19, every single bit of it........One of our clients we distribute for tells us "We're short of steel, we're short of people, were short of feckin' everything."

They normally send us an artic load a week and give us 14 days to deliver, currently they are quoting up to 12 weeks delivery and sending us a load a month.

Last year we began the year with 5 artic loads of stock, at the moment the stock we are holding wouldn't fill a Transit van (They are a French owned NI based sheet steel manufacturing Co.)

 

[nick...]

I’ve ordered all my earthwearing parts a few weeks ago.asked if everything was in stock and told yes but not all turned up and they were waiting for it when I enquired.did get sent 40 packs of nuts and bolts instead of 40 nuts and bolts that I got asked for.that has finally been sorted after 3 weeks but still waiting for credit note.on building materials,cement is in short supply as is lots of things.we found the last 1500 ibstock red rustics (bricks) in the country last week.steel is massivly expensive too and a bucket I enquired about 16 months ago went from£324 to just over £600 couple weeks ago.i think europe is punishing us for brexit
nick...

 

[Kevtherev]

HS2 taking large volumes of material
Cement underground drainage etc

 

[7610 super q]

Not noticed any difference TBH.

 

[upnortheast]

Ordered a trailer at Christmas for April delivery. Not appeared yet

 

[DrWazzock]

No cement available at builders merchant. B & Q rationing it to a couple of bags for DIY customers.
How did it get to this? Can’t all be Brexit related. Don’t we produce raw materials here any more? If we don’t then it’s a failure of national industrial strategy.
Oh I know. Let’s cut back food production as well and create another self inflicted problem.
Government asleep at the wheel.

 

[hagar]

Still waiting on a nugent stock box, ordered January, told it'd be here late March, then late April. Now saying late May!!
Problem is I sold old one at Lanark in Feb

 

[Wombat]

Pretty much everything seems in short supply this year, know a few manufacturers that are going onto reduced work if stuff doesn’t improve

 

[7610 super q]

I have a 25kg bag of cement, surplus to requirements.
£250. No low ballers, I know what I've got.....

 

[Ramrod]

Builder friend says he’s limited to 10 bags cement a week.

 

[DrWazzock]

Builder friend says he’s limited to 10 bags cement a week.

Local merchants here have orders for 500 bags but can’t say when any will come in. The longer this goes on, the longer it will take to sort out and the bigger the knock on effects. You’d hope somebody was taking notice. You’d think nit would be better to pause HS2 until the supply industry caught up but what do i know?

 

[serf]

HS2 taking large volumes of material
Cement underground drainage etc

Yep biggest waste of resources you can think of , all for a waste of space white elephant!

 

[bobk]

3 loads of ready mix last week , fairly sure there was cement in it

 

[jondear]

I have a 25kg bag of cement, surplus to requirements.
£250. No low ballers, I know what I've got.....

Yes but is it cement bag shaped block!

 

[jondear]

I have a 25kg bag of cement, surplus to requirements.
£250. No low ballers, I know what I've got.....

Yes but is it cement bag shaped block!

 

[7610 super q]

Yes but is it cement bag shaped block!

Pffffttt.........I'm not Origin...

 

[czechmate]

Not noticed any difference TBH.

Those that buy and sell nowt won’t notice any difference

 

[ste]

No cement available at builders merchant. B & Q rationing it to a couple of bags for DIY customers.
How did it get to this? Can’t all be Brexit related. Don’t we produce raw materials here any more? If we don’t then it’s a failure of national industrial strategy.
Oh I know. Let’s cut back food production as well and create another self inflicted problem.
Government asleep at the wheel.

We do produce it, but Rugby plant keeps having issues, Cauldon Low has just gone back working after a annual maintainance shut down, one in south wales is the same. And thats just from what I know from the ones I occasionally deliver to

 

[Wombat]

We do produce it, but Rugby plant keeps having issues, Cauldon Low has just gone back working after a annual maintainance shut down, one in south wales is the same. And thats just from what I know from the ones I occasionally deliver to

And South Ferriby was mothballed