Hello, hoping for some collective wisdom. I manage builds for a contract manufacturer and the recurring nightmare is parts quoted with absurd lead times, we are talking fifty plus weeks on chips we need now. Customers do not want to hear that their product is stuck behind a single component. Is there anyone who can actually shorten that by finding the part through alternative channels, while still guaranteeing it is the real thing? I need to keep lines running without gambling on shady stock. Recommendations welcome.