What is going on with Trick Flow??

Many of the companies that we partner with have extended lead times at this point. As with many of the companies in the automotive industries this past years sales have been like none before. Our traditional forecasting from the past 2-3 year could be thrown out the window just based on 2020. With consumers being home over this past year we have seen an explosion in sales as people are using this time to work on their cars. So an item that we were selling annually (prior 2020) lets say at a rate of 200 a year we sold 350 causing us or our manufacturers to scramble for additional materials for productions. So with every company completing for materials we know see a shortage on materials. We are seeing this on both state side manufacturing and overseas. Finally with all the CDC guidelines on social distancing this has affect how production formats are done meaning spacing out work station or reducing work staff in a given area in order to keep social distance. In one case we had a backorder of 2 months on our Bilstein as the manufacturer had to shut their factory for a month as the factory as a whole came down with Covid.

So it is a combination of factors that are causing some of these lead-times that all companies are seeing in this and other industries.

Thanks
James From
PST