[EricH]

This is like the real world. Sometimes, a vendor for a critical part for your product can't get the part to you in time for whatever reason. Your customer, who is buying your product, won't wait for the product. If they have to wait, they pay less, or maybe even cancel the deal.

It doesn't look like any of them are on CD. If someone has direct contact to them, could they be informed of CD's existence? It may be helpful if they made contact with veterans, whether "nearby" (Turkey and Israel are the closest countries with teams, and may have some experience with things like this) or farther away via email/CD. We've all been rookies; we may not have had their unique challenges, but we can still help.