Supply chain delays are causing headaches for drivers across the country.
She can’t find the part that’s needed to repair her car.
The part remained elusive, and repair people told her there were no after-market parts — Honda-branded or not — to replace the specific one that was needed. She would have to wait. Supply chain issues, which cropped up for many industries during the COVID pandemic, have been improving, but they’re still a problem, said David Straughan of Automoblog, who once covered manufacturing and supply companies in China before coming back to the United States.
Renu Ramnarayanan, co-director of the business analytics program at Seton Hall’s Stillman School of Business, said overseas chip production is a big issue and shows the global nature of the automotive supply chain. Straughan said at the start of COVID, shutdowns in China, a major supplier in automotive supply, caused a chain reaction around the world.“This is much more complicated than simply finding a different store to buy a bookshelf from, for example,” he said. “You’re having to find parts for hundreds of thousands of vehicles from
The next day, Thom received another email from Honda with a new ranking. Now she was No. 1 out of 41.
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