{"id":6564,"date":"2021-11-12T21:47:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6564"},"modified":"2021-11-12T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:47:15","slug":"supply-chain-havoc-is-getting-worse-just-in-time-for-holiday-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6564","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain havoc is getting worse \u2014 just in time for holiday shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Gadgets are particularly vulnerable to shortages because they include many different components. Consider all the parts that go into a PlayStation 5 or a new laptop, including their chips, outer shells, and screens. Many of these components require their own specialized manufacturing facilities, which are typically in different factories and often in different countries. For a device to be delivered on time, all of these parts need to be made in sync. Right now, that\u2019s not happening.”
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“Demand for these components has run up against efforts to contain Covid-19 in the countries where the production and assembly of many goods actually take place. Amid a recent delta variant outbreak and nationwide lockdown in Malaysia,<\/strong> the government designated electronics manufacturers<\/a> critical businesses so that production could continue. In May, Vietnam directed vaccines directly to factory workers<\/a>, while urging smartphone manufacturers working in the country, like Samsung, to do the same. (Vietnam\u2019s Covid-19 challenges haven\u2019t gone away: This past weekend, tens of thousands of workers fled the country\u2019s commercial center<\/a> after the government, which is still struggling to access vaccines<\/a>, lifted pandemic lockdown restrictions.)”  
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“\u201cWhat will happen is that a phone will be delayed because they\u2019re waiting on their plastic supplier, and the plastic supplier is waiting on the ingredient,\u201d Penfield, the Syracuse professor, said. \u201cIt just takes one supplier \u2014 and it could be the base ingredient supplier \u2014 to fully screw up your supply chain.\u201d”
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“All these problems mean that consumers are seeing rising prices and shipping delays for a wide range of products. So those looking ahead to the holiday shopping season might want to get an early start, and not just on consumer electronics.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22714507\/shipping-delays-chip-shortage-holiday-shopping<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Gadgets are particularly vulnerable to shortages because they include many different components. Consider all the parts that go into a PlayStation 5 or a new laptop, including their chips, outer shells, and screens. Many of these components require their own specialized manufacturing facilities, which are typically in different factories and often in different countries. For a device to be delivered on time, all of these parts need to be made in sync. Right now, that\u2019s not happening.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Demand for these components has run up against efforts to contain Covid-19 in the countries where the production and assembly of many goods actually take place. Amid a recent delta variant outbreak and nationwide lockdown in Malaysia, the government designated electronics manufacturers critical businesses so that production could continue. In May, Vietnam directed vaccines directly to factory workers, while urging smartphone manufacturers working in the country, like Samsung, to do the same. (Vietnam\u2019s Covid-19 challenges haven\u2019t gone away: This past weekend, tens of thousands of workers fled the country\u2019s commercial center after the government, which is still struggling to access vaccines, lifted pandemic lockdown restrictions.)” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“\u201cWhat will happen is that a phone will be delayed because they\u2019re waiting on their plastic supplier, and the plastic supplier is waiting on the ingredient,\u201d Penfield, the Syracuse professor, said. \u201cIt just takes one supplier \u2014 and it could be the base ingredient supplier \u2014 to fully screw up your supply chain.\u201d”<\/p>\n

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“All these problems mean that consumers are seeing rising prices and shipping delays for a wide range of products. So those looking ahead to the holiday shopping season might want to get an early start, and not just on consumer electronics.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,165,1437,1316,1247,377,1226,796,1005],"class_list":["post-6564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-holidays","tag-inflation","tag-infrastructure","tag-manufacturing","tag-shipping","tag-supply-chain","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}