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What is fair wait time for chamber job?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alex Wheeler" data-source="post: 2540085" data-attributes="member: 101859"><p>I can give a little bit of a view from the gunsmiths side of things. At one point I was well over a year out on work. I really didnt like that. Very stressful. And honestly less efficient. Your just dealing with too much for one person to handle. Backlogs dont really make you money they cost you after some point because your spending too much time doing things like ordering parts or planning builds. You only need enough work to stay busy. I stopped taking a lot of work that I was less interested in. I even stopped taking work at all for about 6 months. It didnt really matter because those guys waited the 6 months and called to see if Id take the work then. Raising prices has never slowed down my work flow either. Even giving really long lead time estimates didn't help. Guys would say I dont care how long it takes. So I had to get to the point of just saying no. Its hard to do. On one hand you want to do the job because they want you to, but you cant if you ever want to get to a reasonable lead time. Its never about the money, you can only do so much in a day. Now I have narrowed down what I do to mostly metal work and my lead times are better than ever but I still want them even shorter. Its better for me and the customer. One thing I never did was give a lead time. Its impossible to give a lead time when your a year out. But if your a month out you can. Thats my goal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alex Wheeler, post: 2540085, member: 101859"] I can give a little bit of a view from the gunsmiths side of things. At one point I was well over a year out on work. I really didnt like that. Very stressful. And honestly less efficient. Your just dealing with too much for one person to handle. Backlogs dont really make you money they cost you after some point because your spending too much time doing things like ordering parts or planning builds. You only need enough work to stay busy. I stopped taking a lot of work that I was less interested in. I even stopped taking work at all for about 6 months. It didnt really matter because those guys waited the 6 months and called to see if Id take the work then. Raising prices has never slowed down my work flow either. Even giving really long lead time estimates didn't help. Guys would say I dont care how long it takes. So I had to get to the point of just saying no. Its hard to do. On one hand you want to do the job because they want you to, but you cant if you ever want to get to a reasonable lead time. Its never about the money, you can only do so much in a day. Now I have narrowed down what I do to mostly metal work and my lead times are better than ever but I still want them even shorter. Its better for me and the customer. One thing I never did was give a lead time. Its impossible to give a lead time when your a year out. But if your a month out you can. Thats my goal. [/QUOTE]
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