Tom Gendron
Analyst · Alembic Global. Please state your question.
Yes. No, great question. We're - we've got a lot of suppliers with the legacy products we have. So we've got a big tail of suppliers. But what we have is our high-risk suppliers, and we went through and we originally started with, I think, it was about 20. We've mitigated the risk on those. But as we're mitigating the risk on those, I think the list of troubled suppliers that are still impacting us is like 28. So that's out of about a couple of thousand suppliers. So those ones we're working. We've got recovery plans with them. We've got teams on site. We're addressing that. And the process and the approach we're using is yielding results. But it's still in the tight supply base we have, if you're looking at castings, forgings, machine houses, they're all struggling with labor and capacity recovery in their facilities. So those are some of them. And as we highlighted before, some of the supplier issues have been plant shutdowns, moving products during the - when the market was really shut down in 2020. So they're still recovering from some of those. Now on the semiconductors, that is still an issue for us, and it is impacting both aero and Industrial, but I would say it's impacting Industrial, a fair amount more than aero. And one of the issues we have there, and I think we might have said this at Investor Day, we use a lot of components or chips that are used in automotive. And we're low-volume, high-mix supplier. And that has been challenging due to the problems the auto guys are having getting source. And so we are working hard to get the semiconductors, but that's still ongoing pressure. And as we said before, full recovery, we don't see until '23, and it might be mid to late '23 as we get that back on track. So that's still a big challenge. The other ones we think we've got good mitigation plans that they take some time, and we'll start seeing recovery second half of this year. As Mark said in his prepared remarks, some of that will roll into fiscal year '23. None of the sales are lost. I just want to really emphasize that. There - on all these, we're generally 100% across the board, sole source. So it's a matter of getting recovery, helping our customers make sure we keep their lines running and getting back on track. So - that's the positive. It will come, and those sales will recover and the cash flow associated with those will come. Some of it's rolling into fiscal year '23, just due to that as we ship late in the fiscal year, that's going to end up in AR and that's going to roll into '23 to get the cash out.