It is quite frustrating. I'm a medical device hardware engineer, so our quantities are in the low 1000s per year for our highest-running SKUs. Just today had to

It is quite frustrating. I'm a medical device hardware engineer, so our quantities are in the low 1000s per year for our highest-running SKUs. Just today had to deal with a panicked contract manufacturer who was going to bring our line down for an oscillator and a capacitor that they were shorted. Distributors will tell you they're sending a reel of 1000 parts or whatever, but you open the box and they just threw in 30. Every other week it's another *drop your NPD responsibilities and come up with a solution to this shortage so we don't stop our assembly lines* which is quite frustrating to keeping "on schedule" and "in a flow state"... If it's not in *your* warehouse or allocated to you in *your* contract manufacturer's warehouse, it doesn't exist.