BOB runs CWRN
He is the "man in-charge" the man who set this IRON ore mine up after carefully qualifying the land. All this takes time.
Bob is not the captain of the incoming ship. He does not run the freight company. He tells us what he is told.
I confirmed today with my customer, who has been in the mining business who is in charge of three plants.
He has delays constantly due to "uncontrollable events" and said this is common to his every day business...planned or not planned.
When a business loses control of either a manufactured part, and hires someone to make it, or calls a company to come in and pick up his finish goods, he has lost that control. He is in the hands of those businesses. I hear 1,258,459 excuses a month on why i was promised a part to be complete, or rail car I order 8 weeks ago is late by 3 weeks, and now is stock in another city because the load shifted...I HAVE HEARD IT ALL
NOW, if BOB was not producing IRON ORE...THIS IS IN HIS CONTROL, THEN, HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM. PERIOD. END OF STORY.