Vance is stalled...
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Vance is stalled...
My GL320 had a build date of 1/25...Netstar says is built but still "in process", the stage before being released to carrier. Calls to the factory by the sales manager haven't led to any good info on the delay-i am getting impatient...anybody else experience this?
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Could it be a weather delay due to trucks missing schedules?
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Mine was built on 1-4-07 and arrived at dealer on 1-10-07. It was delivered to a dealer less than 200 miles away. I know it's hard to wait but my dealer said there are two factors that can slow delivery. (1) Sometimes it's a few days before the car is tested for release to the carrier. (2) The carrier will wait until there is a full truck.
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Very true Jack450.
Mine was built on 1/10/07 and arrived on 1/16/07 and is less than 300 miles away.
By the way, how many Jack's do we have here now? me, Nevada, Straw, 450...somewhere in there is a poker joke!
What part of MS are you in 450? me? Long Beach.
Mine was built on 1/10/07 and arrived on 1/16/07 and is less than 300 miles away.
By the way, how many Jack's do we have here now? me, Nevada, Straw, 450...somewhere in there is a poker joke!
What part of MS are you in 450? me? Long Beach.
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Not a Jack, but I'm in Tupelo.
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Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC, here...approx 500 miles from Vance...but on the way all the way up the eastern seaboard...i can't imagine they are still waiting to fill a truck. I'm getting angrier and angrier (though it does me no good).
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I suspect this may be dealership :liar:
My company is a supplier to many MB (as well as other southern auto mfg's) suppliers and they, like most auto mfg's these days, work on a just-in-time (JIT) supply chain. For example, Saturn has approx 8 hours of parts in house at any one time - inventory is virtually nil. They depend on regular deliveries of parts to keep production going. All one needs to do is look within a 100 mile radius of Vance, Canton, Spartanburg, Spring Hill, Smyrna, etc and see the suppliers that are strategically located to operate within this production model.
There are stiff penalties imposed on a supplier that fails to make on time deliveries - including paying down time for the plant if the missed delivery causes a line shutdown. No supplier is going to pay hundreds of auto workers' salaries because their parts weren't delivered.
You should look somewhere besides Vance for the delay in delivery. Particularly in light of others not experiencing a delay. Maybe they sold your allocation to someone else?
My company is a supplier to many MB (as well as other southern auto mfg's) suppliers and they, like most auto mfg's these days, work on a just-in-time (JIT) supply chain. For example, Saturn has approx 8 hours of parts in house at any one time - inventory is virtually nil. They depend on regular deliveries of parts to keep production going. All one needs to do is look within a 100 mile radius of Vance, Canton, Spartanburg, Spring Hill, Smyrna, etc and see the suppliers that are strategically located to operate within this production model.
There are stiff penalties imposed on a supplier that fails to make on time deliveries - including paying down time for the plant if the missed delivery causes a line shutdown. No supplier is going to pay hundreds of auto workers' salaries because their parts weren't delivered.
You should look somewhere besides Vance for the delay in delivery. Particularly in light of others not experiencing a delay. Maybe they sold your allocation to someone else?
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I suspect this may be dealership :liar:
My company is a supplier to many MB (as well as other southern auto mfg's) suppliers and they, like most auto mfg's these days, work on a just-in-time (JIT) supply chain. For example, Saturn has approx 8 hours of parts in house at any one time - inventory is virtually nil. They depend on regular deliveries of parts to keep production going. All one needs to do is look within a 100 mile radius of Vance, Canton, Spartanburg, Spring Hill, Smyrna, etc and see the suppliers that are strategically located to operate within this production model.
There are stiff penalties imposed on a supplier that fails to make on time deliveries - including paying down time for the plant if the missed delivery causes a line shutdown. No supplier is going to pay hundreds of auto workers' salaries because their parts weren't delivered.
You should look somewhere besides Vance for the delay in delivery. Particularly in light of others not experiencing a delay. Maybe they sold your allocation to someone else?
My company is a supplier to many MB (as well as other southern auto mfg's) suppliers and they, like most auto mfg's these days, work on a just-in-time (JIT) supply chain. For example, Saturn has approx 8 hours of parts in house at any one time - inventory is virtually nil. They depend on regular deliveries of parts to keep production going. All one needs to do is look within a 100 mile radius of Vance, Canton, Spartanburg, Spring Hill, Smyrna, etc and see the suppliers that are strategically located to operate within this production model.
There are stiff penalties imposed on a supplier that fails to make on time deliveries - including paying down time for the plant if the missed delivery causes a line shutdown. No supplier is going to pay hundreds of auto workers' salaries because their parts weren't delivered.
You should look somewhere besides Vance for the delay in delivery. Particularly in light of others not experiencing a delay. Maybe they sold your allocation to someone else?
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That is correct, sometimes can be the other way around though... I've seen both.
I would tend to agree with your reasoning, however, the NetStar data is produced by the factory so if the status is "in process" then that would indcate something is holding up the finishing of the build. He didn't state whether he saw the actual status page or was told this by the dealer.
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My rep spoke with a woman at the factory in Vance and was provided the detail on my build...? I did not say NetStar was developed by MBUSI, merely that the data status originates in Vance.
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Yeah, people, nobody messes with JACK-if he doesn't know, noone does! And of course the dealer can talk to the factory, unless my dealer went through an elaborate ruse for my benefit when he didn't know i was arriving today to have him call. DUH.
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haha, the dealer does not talk to the factory. You think that you actually are getting your dealer to talk to the production planning/engineering group at the factory? Yeah right. They probably mean MBUSA.
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I don't know where you get your information from but my "sales rep" is also a personal friend who contacts the factory in Vance and talks with the Distribution rep at the factory. That what he is there for...to service the dealers. All dealers have access to this office and discuss things other than delivery and build dates.
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Again, throughout this process, and 18 months ago when i ordered an R (which i ultimately turned down upon delivery) my dealer spoke to the distribution center in Vance. I have been a long-time customer as have the rest of my family, so i really doubt the dealer is lying to me. Plus, i sat in his office while he spoke to someone in Vance (unless they were lying and were really in Montvale
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When ordering both my ML and GL my salesman had contacts at the factory who were 'factory reps' for those models. A couple of questions he couldn't answer so he called them. Never owned another MB that I needed to call NJ for so can't respond to that.
