On Oct 29, 8:37 am, Ian White wrote:
raden wrote:
My biggest gripe about RS is their stock levels at regional trade
counters.

Or rather their stock levels full stop

since they transferred over to this new system, the whole thing seems
to have fallen apart - for example, I've run them out of capacitors
several times this year with over a month's lead time on replacement
stock ... and then you find that they've run out of the alternative as
well !

It probably isn't their fault. The RoHS directive has thrown the
component industry's JIT manufacturing and delivery processes into
chaos, so there are gaps where certain components just aren't being
made.

Oh, come on! RoHS has been on the cards for some time. Anyone quoting
it is using it as a convenient excuse for their own cock-ups (like a
blinkered "It will never happen", or "I don't need to worry about it"
attitude), rather than a real reason.

MBQ